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Kyoko Hasegawa

Staff writer at Agence France Presse.

/ 19 February 2008

Toshiba concedes defeat in DVD format war

Japan’s Toshiba conceded defeat on Tuesday to rival Sony in a long-running DVD format war, ending consumer confusion but leaving about one million people with expensive machines doomed to become obsolete. Toshiba said it will stop selling its HD DVD machines by the end of March.

By Kyoko Hasegawa and Daniel Rook

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/ 26 November 2005

Japanese craft makes landmark asteroid landing

A Japanese spacecraft successfully landed on a far-away asteroid on Saturday for a second time and almost certainly collected the first-ever samples from such a celestial body, Japan’s space agency said. The Hayabusa probe is on a landmark mission to bring back material from the Itokawa asteroid.

By Kyoko Hasegawa

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/ 9 November 2005

Reviving a dying culture through eco-tourism

As he escorts yet more visitors through Shari, a town of fish and icebergs on the northern tip of Japan, tour guide Yoshiji Ishii stops and folds inward his outstretched arms. "When entering an abode of the gods, you have to pray like this," explains Ishii, one of Japan’s indigenous Ainu people.

By Kyoko Hasegawa

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/ 24 October 2005

Japanese zoo proves hit with walk on wild side

Surrounded by a crowd of admirers, 24-year-old Jack has no idea how close his home came to being shut down a decade ago as he dangles from a rope, scratching his shaggy red fur. The orangutan plays happily at a zoo in northern Japan that was saved from the brink of closure and redesigned as a playground for animals that is now the country’s top wildlife attraction.

By Kyoko Hasegawa

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/ 18 October 2005

Greenspan says oil costs to stifle growth for ‘some time’

United States Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday that the world would have to learn to live with high oil prices and their negative impact on economic growth ”for some time to come”. He said the recent shutdown of US oil production and refinery facilities battered by hurricanes was ”an accident waiting to happen”.

By Kyoko Hasegawa

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/ 15 September 2005

Japan opposition looks left, right after crushing defeat

Japan’s largest opposition party is looking both at veteran leaders and fresh young faces to help it recover after it lost to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in a record drubbing. The Democratic Party of Japan is set to elect a new leader on Saturday after Katsuya Okada, a dour former civil servant, quit over the election rout in which the party lost one third of its seats.

By Kyoko Hasegawa

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Toshiba concedes defeat in DVD format war

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Greenspan says oil costs to stifle growth for ‘some time’

Japan opposition looks left, right after crushing defeat

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