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One shook the Ibaraki Prefecture mid-morning Monday registering a 5.0 on the Richter scale, Kyodo news reported.
FORBES: China Stocks Resilient Early Monday While Nikkei Below 10k
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Among individual stocks, Japan's Komatsu rose 2 percent after the heavy machinery maker said it will start selling automatic bulldozers in North America in June, Kyodo News reported.
NPR: Asian Stocks Rebound As US Recovery Doubts Ease
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Among individual stocks, Japanese vehicle maker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. jumped more than 16 percent after raising its group net profit forecast for the year ending March 2013, Kyodo News reported.
NPR: Asia Stocks Up On US Company Earnings, Home Sales
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However, shares in Softbank added 2% after Kyodo News reported the firm's mobile-carrier unit won key spectrum which will allow it to better compete against larger rivals NTT DoCoMo and KDDI.
WSJ: Asian Shares End Lower
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They did not violate Japan's airspace, Kyodo News reported.
BBC: Japan PM Abe: China handling of islands row 'wrong'
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Mr Sonoda had received an official warning, Kyodo news agency reported, as had other coaching staff.
BBC: Japan judo coach 'beat top female athletes'
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He apologised and has received an official warning, the Kyodo news agency reported, as had other coaching staff.
BBC: Japan Olympic judo champion jailed for raping student
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Restarting cooling to the spent fuel pool at reactor 4 had been of particular urgency for Tepco as it had the highest number of fuel assemblies stored there, Kyodo news agency reported.
BBC: Power at Fukushima nuclear fuel ponds restored
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Meanwhile, the Nikkei stock index started Monday down over 500 points as the country tries to grasp with the worst natural disaster in a generation, Kyodo News agency reported at the opening bell.
FORBES: China Stocks Resilient Early Monday While Nikkei Below 10k
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Japanese police searched the head offices of Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba on Tuesday for evidence linked to a widening racketeering scandal that led to the arrest on Monday of two top executives, Kyodo news agency reported.
BBC: Japanese police raid Mitsubishi, Toshiba headquarters
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On July 5th Kyodo, a news agency, reported that 21 Chinese were among 27 foreign trainees who died last year on a government-sponsored skills-transfer scheme for developing countries that over the past four years has brought in an average of 94, 000 workers a year, mostly from China.
ECONOMIST: The Chinese in Japan