MORIOKA--Producers of traditional metalware in Iwate Prefecture plan to ask Chinese authorities to reject a trademark application by a company they say is trying to cash in on their established brand name.
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Japan Sumo Association head Kitanoumi, left, after announcing his resignation Monday. Stablemaster Musashigawa, right, is chosen as his successor, at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan.
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The farm ministry has instructed wholesale distributor Mikasa Foods Co. to recall pesticide-tainted imported Chinese rice it had sold and will ask manufacturers that bought the grain to recall their food products.
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TOYAMA--A man acquitted after serving more than two years in prison on sexual assault charges will sue the central and prefectural governments for damages this month, sources said.
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Today marks DreamIt Ventures' first Funding Day, during which the new startup incubator will introduce a dozen new companies to a collection of founders and venture capitalists. DreamIt is a program in the same vein as Y Combinator and TechStars , offering startups seed funding, guidance, and connections in exchange for equity. We've written brief introductions to each of the startups, ...
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Online file storage and sharing service Box.net is helping to put the "cloud" in Dell's first netbook, the Inspiron Mini 9 . With only 4GB of built-in hard drive space, Dell needed some way to boost capacity. So it placed a default Box icon on the desktop that leads to 2GB of free internet storage (twice the normal 1GB that Box provides for free).
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Google Chromeに悪質ファイルをダウンロードしてしまう脆弱性や、すべてのタブがクラッシュしてしまう脆弱性が見つかった。 米Googleがβ版をリリースしたばかりの新ブラウザ「Google Chrome」に、早くも脆弱性の報告が相次いでいる。US-CERTは9月3日、Google Chromeはデフォルトで、ユーザーに警告することなくファイルをダウンロードしてしまう脆弱性があると報告。また、すべてのタブがクラッシュしてしまう別の脆弱性も見つかっている。
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Thirty current and former Social Insurance Agency (SIA) employees will be asked to return 830 million yen in salaries received while working for their union full time without authorization, the SIA said Wednesday.
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