2006.01.24

Japan-USA Beef (VOA) As expected, no agreement reached during talks today in Tokyo between USDA and Japanese officials on when there could be a resumption of beef exports from the United States to Japan. 2006.01.24

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Japan-TSE Livedoor Tokyo Stock Exchange will allow Livedoor stock, bound for delisting, to trade less than two hours per day amid fears that the deluge of sell orders will crash the exchange's woefully inadequate computerized trading system. 2006.01.24

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LDP Avoids Livedoor Executive (AP). Japanese governing party legislators scramble to distance themselves from Internet startup Livedoor's chief executive, arrested on suspicion of violating securities laws. 2006.01.24

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Japan-Livedoor (Kyodo) Livedoor, struggling to maintain a shred of legitimacy, quickly names a new president to replace the jailed Takafumi Horie. 2006.01.24

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Vocalist Kawamura marries Miss Japan 2002 (Mainichi Daily News). Ryuichi Kawamura, former vocalist of the Japanese band Luna Sea has married Miss Japan 2002, Kumi Sano. 2006.01.24

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USA urges ROK to join crackdown on DPRK. [AFP] The United States urges South Korea to join a crackdown on alleged North Korean counterfeiting and money-laundering and to do more to counter weapons proliferation. 2006.01.24

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Koizumi in hot seat after jailing of disgraced IT guru. [Radio Australia] Reform of Japan's staid business community has suffered a major setback with the arrest and jailing of one of its high-profile new entrepreneurs. Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie denies misleading investors and inflating the shareprice of his company Livedoor. But the old guard of Japan's corporate world is hoping the country's financial regulators will make an example of the brash executive. 2006.01.24

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Japan successfully launches disaster-monitoring satellite (AFP). Japan has launched its space program's leading rocket for the first time in nearly a year, aiming to put into orbit a satellite that can monitor disasters and hunt for natural resources. 2006.01.24

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Japanese Stocks Rebound, Dollar Higher (AP). Japan's benchmark stock index bounces back this morning after dropping more than two percent the previous session amid continuing fallout from Livedoor Shock. 2006.01.24

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Japan-Space (Kyodo) Japan successfully fires off an H-II rocket. Or so it seems. Developing... 2006.01.24

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Analysts: Japan Needs Securities Agency (AP). The arrest of Japan's most popular startup star  highlights what some see as an astounding weakness: The world's second largest economy has no independent body that regulates its stock market. 2006.01.24

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Japan-US Beef (VOA) Top U.S. State Department official gets a tongue-lashing in Tokyo over veal shipment. 2006.01.24

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Japan-Livedoor Scandal (Washington Post). Arrested CEO of internet group was once viewed as a  new breed of Japanese businessmen. 2006.01.24

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Japan-Livedoor (VOA) Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie and other company executives are spending the night in jail -- the first of perhaps 20 such nights, maybe more. 2006.01.24

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Japan-Stock Market (Kyodo) Updated Tokyo Stock Exchange sending Livedoor to bourse's purgatory ahead of likely de-listing. 2006.01.24

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