The South Korean police raided the offices of the local offshoot of the Internet giants Google and seized hard drives and documents here. The reason for the raid was the suspicion that Google collected the recordings for the Maps Street View service user personal data from unencrypted wireless networks.
On 19 July 2000 was brought in Japan to commemorate the G-8 summit in Kyushu and Okinawa, a 2,000-yen note into circulation. The acceptance of the population lacked the novelty and quickly fell into oblivion. The problem: the 2000-yen note was accepted in the land of the vending machine a little. As a result, she makes now only an insignificant percentage of the total notes in circulation.
Japan's rice storage are no longer filled as well as for 8 years. The result is lower prices and less rice cultivation in the coming year.Forecasts of the Ministry of Agriculture, according to Japan's public and private storage are expected this year include a total of 3.24 million tons of rice, 2.
“We want to introduce a new Japanese curry Kulinarität in China,” says Yukihide Haneda, president of Japan's House Foods subsidiary in Shanghai, compared with the Asahi Shimbun. House Foods is one of the largest food companies in Japan and known for its curry products.
Since July 2010, the visa requirements for Chinese individual tourists were relaxed massively. The measure has an effect. Already, the Japanese government reported strong increases in travelers from the Middle Kingdom. Between the first and 23 July 5386 were issued visas to Chinese individuals. That's according to State Department 5-times more than the year before.
The workers of 43 foreign companies, including 32 companies from Japan, have a strike in the last 2 months in China. The company had to stop their production completely or partially, as the Asahi Shimbun reported. In most cases, the labor dispute ended after the company agreed to a wage increase of at least 10 percent.
Japan Airlines are considering seems to introduce their former logo with the crane again. The logo is called in Japanese Tsurumaru internationally known and is reminiscent of better times, before a declaration of bankruptcy, the battered image of Japan's national airline.The logo was emblazoned created 1959 to 2002 on the tail fins of the JAL machine when it was replaced after the merger with Japan Air System with a more modern design.
Google search engine is virtually the only supplier in Japan. Yahoo Japan has announced plans to use in future the search algorithm of Google.Yahoo Japan is Japan's largest web-portal. It was created in 1996 from a joint venture between Yahoo and Softbank. Previously used Yahoo Japan's search engine Yahoo.
In the first half of 2010, Japan's exports were up year on year by 37.9 percent to 33'097 billion yen. It is the first increase since 2 years.With an increase of 27.7 percent was the 7th of June Consecutive month, which was recorded in the prior-year period an increase. The trade surplus amounted to 687 billion yen in June, 41.
Tokyo's Haneda airport Will again rise to international size. For this, a new runway is built and expanded the terminal site. Starting in October allowed flights to the U.S. and to Europe again and take off and land at Haneda. For travelers, this would be an attractive alternative. Because Haneda is much closer to the city center than Narita, the great Tokyo International Airport.