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A former SK Hynix employee is at the center of a brewing legal battle between top flash memory rivals after allegedly stealing trade secrets.

When the tsunami smashed the seafood processing factory where Shoichi Sato was working, he lost his job but eventually found a new life.

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014 photo, Shoichi Sato, president of Kamaishi Hikari Foods Co., Ltd. speaks about the 2011 tsunami that hit the area in Toni, northeastern Japan.

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014 photo, employees of Kamaishi Hikari Foods Co., Ltd. cut boiled octopus at the firm's factory in Kamaishi, northeastern Japan.

Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co has shut all units at its 120,000 barrels-per-day Tokuyama refinery complex in western Japan after a strong earthquake, the company said on Friday.

Liquidity is important in the casino industry because it offers the ability to make large investment decisions quickly.

Last year, Japan Airlines launched their new business class cabin, but it's only just now beginning to take to the skies.

A Magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck off Japan's southern island of Kyushu near the city of Oita, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Thursday.

Hirofumi Hayashi, a politics professor at Kanto Gakuin University, speaks at a rally in Tokyo last week against Japan's move to review and alter its 1993 apology for its military's wartime mobilization of sex slaves.

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Japan put two reactors on a shortlist for a final round of safety checks on Thursday, moving a step closer to a revival of the country's nuclear industry, three years after the Fukushima disaster led to the shutdown of all plants.

Urban explorer Florian Seidel has visited Nara Dreamland more than half a dozen times for his blog Abandoned Kansai.

Infant HIV cure A second HIV-infected child seems to have been successfully treated, according to the doctor who last year reported the first child to be cured of the infection .

Satoshi Nakajima and ZEPPELIN Inc. , recently launched their VideoShader app in the market.

The other day, we were going on and on about the lovely cherry blossoms set to show up very soon in Washington, DC, and today we still have the blooms of spring on our minds.

Showcasing different Asian cultures, traditions, art and their diversity, the 7th Asian Film Festival, an annual event of ACG club, was officially inaugurated on Monday at the Garden Residence of Matahiro Yamaguchi, Consul-General of Japan, in Jeddah.

Top South Korean and Japanese diplomats held talks in Seoul on Wednesday as the United States pushed its two key Asian allies to improve badly strained ties.

Toyota will raise its monthly base pay for workers by 2,700 yen on average, or about 0.8 percent of total monthly pay, marking the first increase in base wages in six years but falling short of its union's demand for a 4,000 yen increase.

People pray in front of a monument built to commemorate those who lost their lives in the disaster in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture.

I first saw " Nuclear Nation ," a haunting documentary about the Fukushima meltdown, at its New York premiere, late last year.