Word: nippon
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...bigger than the 777 and 80% bigger than the Airbus 330 and A340, and Boeing has ditched window covers for electronic dimming controls. Boeing also promises a smoother ride with less turbulence. And during a press conference Sunday morning, Mineo Yamamoto, president and CEO of All Nippon Airways, which will be the first to fly the 787 next May, said that the company also worked with Boeing and Japanese toilet maker TOTO in the development of a bidet-type toilet to be "the first airline to refresh the parts that other airlines cannot reach." Go Japan...
...Narita International Airport with a forged Dominican passport and then deported to China, Jong Nam has apparently fallen from favor. That didn't diminish the interest of the media, especially in Japan. "North Korea is a No. 1 concern for us," says Tsuyoshi Ikeda, a news director for Nippon Television, puffing a cigarette in the Mandarin's lobby. "So it's important that we watch them...
...North Korea is a number one concern for us," says Tsuyoshi Ikeda, a news director for Nippon Television, puffing on a cigarette in the Mandarin's lobby. "So it's important that we watch them...
...tile wall, "his" place looks identical to those around it. We ring the doorbell, but no one shows. A security guard gives us a dirty look, so we buzz off. Our options dwindling, we decide to call off our search. Perhaps we should have followed the lead of Nippon Television's Norihisa Kabaya, whom we had run into earlier that morning. He was patrolling a boardwalk near the black sand of Hac Sa beach, video camera rolling while his translator waved a blown-up photograph of the smiling Kim Jong Nam. "Have you seen this man?" the translator asked...
...ARRESTED. Yoshiaki Murakami, 46, outspoken Japanese fund manager and corporate raider; on charges of insider trading; in Tokyo. Known for his confrontational attitude and Western-style shareholder activism, Murakami is accused of making over $26 million by buying shares of media firm Nippon Broadcasting System, allegedly with the knowledge that it was the target of a takeover bid by Internet company Livedoor. In a televised news conference last week, Murakami said that he "didn't mean to break the law," noting that while he had "heard" about the bid, he didn't believe Livedoor would carry it out. If convicted...