Last week, the amount of sales of shares by foreign investors on the Tokyo Stock Exchange exceeded the amount of purchase.
According to officials of the exchange, foreigners who have contributed to the recent rise in share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, were last week, network vendors for the first time in three weeks.
Sales amount is reported to exceed the purchase price of more than $ 160 million.
From September this year, the University of Tokyo will offer two free training course in "online" for everyone in the world.
On Thursday, the university has recorded lectures for one of these courses on the origin of the universe.
The University of Tokyo will offer free courses in English language through a global open-line system "Coursera", introduced last year by professors at Stanford University in the U.S..
Japan and China have built a large aviary to help artificially derived crested ibis adapt to the wild. This aviary is a collaborative project that is created in a nature reserve in the Chinese province of Henan.
On Thursday, on the occasion of the completion of the ceremony, which was attended by officials of the State Forestry Administration of China and the representatives of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan.
Aviary has a height of about 30 meters. There are trees and a pond, so that the birds will be able to get used to flying and foraging in the wild. Japan has provided for the
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On the eve of the opening of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Yokohama City Aquarium demonstrates rare frogs and other aquatic inhabitants of Africa.
Among the exhibits are on display in the aquarium Hakkejima Sea Paradise, you can see the fish with large fins, like the wings of a butterfly, from the Congo River.
Much to the delight of the visitors is the penguin parade, brought from the South African Republic. The audience with loud applause greeted the appearance of penguins on which traditional African attire.
Japanese archaeologists have found the mask of wood, which was made more than 1,800 years ago and is the oldest known wooden masks.
A group of archaeologists, who worked under the direction of the municipal department of education, the mask unearthed from the ruins in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan.
Mask in length slightly greater than 23 centimeters. She seems to be split in half along its length. Found width of 7 cm, but if we apply the missing half the entire width is approximately 16 cm
Stock prices in Tokyo fell sharply on Thursday, as the key Nikkei index down more than 700 points amid fears of a recently observed price volatility.
The index Nikkei, which reflects the average share price 225 companies amounted to 13,589 points at the close of trading on Thursday, up 737 points lower than Wednesday. This is the second biggest drop in the index this year. The largest decline occurred on May 23.
A more general index Topix, reflecting the price of shares of all companies in the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange at the close of trading fell by 44 points compared to th
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Today's column LOOK - the second in a special series on the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). We talk to Shintaro Matoba, director of the Middle East and Africa in the Department of International Studies of the Japanese Organization for the Development of Foreign Trade (JETRO) of the African economy, which is experiencing rapid growth, as well as Japanese companies coming to the African continent.
The first TICAD conference was held in 1993, when international aid to Africa was a decline. Japan has decided to host this conference in order to lead efforts to mobilize international assistance. In the intervening 20 years, the situation has changed significantly. In particular, these changes became apparent after 2000,
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Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered the operator breeder reactor Monju has suspended preparations for the resumption of the operation of the reactor as long as steps are taken to ensure the proper maintenance and operation of the product.
A senior representative of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday gave this order to the Deputy Director General of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.
The Commission has taken this step after finding that the reactor operator missed a check approximately 10,000 pieces of equipment.
In the port city of Yokohama opened a trade exhibition, which presented African goods, and culture.
The four-day event began on Thursday, two days before the opening of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), which will also be held in Yokohama.
"African Exhibition - 2013" was organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan and the Japanese Organization for the development of foreign trade (JETRO), to help create business opportunities between Japan and Africa.
