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1.Wireless LAN service to be available on “NT700” bullet trains

2.Daiichi Sankyo to become 2nd largest pharmaceutical company in Japan by acquiring major Indian medicine maker

3.Comments can now be posted on YouTube together with video clips

4.Sanyo Electric to invest 80 billion yen in lithium-ion battery production

5.Virtual boutique of Louis Vuitton operated for limited period of time

6.American SNS Facebook starts Japanese-language service

7.One of every three seniors has TV game machine

8.Information on Chinese stocks strengthened: MSN Money

9.Audi A4 Avant with special specifications on market

10.About 90% of women in teens and 20’s surf or handle cell phones while watching TV

11.Tokyo accounts for 10% of Japan's total population. Population concentrating on greater metropolitan areas

12.Nissan to begin selling 5-seat, sports-type “Livina C-Gear” in China

13.Bankruptcies in FY07 up 18%. Biggest since FY01: Teikoku Databank

14.New “mobile-net” bank to be called “Jibun Bank”

15.BBC to broadcast iPlayher on-demand service for Wii in tie-up with Nintendo

16.Market expands biggest ever for game machines, software: Enterbrain

17.Mitsubishi Fuso markets improved model of double-decker bus for expressways

18.Mazda to recall 52,513 MPV cars

19.Apple-Aiphone disputes over iPhone and Aiphone settled

20.NHK should assert national interest in int’l broadcasting: Board chairman

21.ANA to buy 25 jetliners being developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

22.Orders for new Crown cars brisk at 24,000 units in a month

23.110 billion yen loss from giving up HD-DVD format: Toshiba

24.Toyota to sell "Toyota" brand cars in South Korea

25.JTB is most popular company to work for among liberal arts students, while Toyota is among engineering students: Maicomi survey

26.Sumitomo Mitsui Bank assists business firms that have environmental technology

27.jp. domain registrations top 1 million

28."Standard business assessment" for Jan. adjusted downward for first time in 11 months

29.Sony, Sharp to set up joint company to produce LCD panels

30.J-CAST News ranked top among Japanese-language websites in increase rate of visitors

31.EDION to replace HD DVD players sold by its shops with Blu-Ray players

32.mixi to advance into China

33."Device to measure laughs" developed by Kansai Univ. research team

34.Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, held for exaggerated labelling of sterilizing effect of "silver ion"

35.Switching to Vista was not brisk in 2007

36.Rakuten's internet shopping mall to advance into Europe

37.Losses stemming from U.S. subprime mortgage crisis total over 600 bil. yen at 8 major banks

38.Chocolate of high cacao content is also high in calorie and lipid content

39.Tomy to invest in Index Holdings

40.All-time high of 8.34 mil. foreigners visited Japan in 07

41.Sony marks all-time high profit on brisk game machine business

42.Sumitomo Trust & Banking, Marubeni to jointly trade in emission rights

43.Highest ever 93% of Japanese say, "proud of being Japanese citizen"

44.Fujifilm to strengthen cosmetic division, start selling at drug stores

45.Sales of Nintendo Wii top 20 million units in about one year

46.Google surpasses Rakuten in internet viewing rate in Japan

47.Game-like "3-dimensional virtual space" to be available on the net: Daletto

48.Nikon surpasses Canon in digital SLR camera sales in 2007: BCN

49.20,000 comments sent in on YouTube video footage critical of Australian reaction concerning whaling

50.Matsushita, YouTube tie-up

51.JR Central to construct maglev Shinkansen on its own

52.Winny users sharply increased in 2007

53.Online "freaks business" expands to 186.68 billion yen in 2007: "Freaks Industry Whitepaper"

54.Online games to grow to 458 billion yen business in 2012: NRI

55.Snow carving contest in Second Life to be conducted by Asahikawa

56.C4, FC2 set up joint company F4 for word-of-mouth advertisement

57.Kokuyo to put X mark on its products not eco-minded enough

58.Less than 40% trust Wikipedia: survey by iSHARE

59.Technology to pinpoint where a picture was re-taken. Developed by NHK and Mitsubishi Electric

60.Toyota targets at putting "partner robots" in practical use in 2010's

61.Honda Fit tops list of new-car sales for Nov.

62."Most-talked-about goods survey for 2007". Nintendo game machines occupy top two places

63.Nissan to conduct "Skyline tests" to mark 5th anniversary over internet

64.Aeon and Sanyo Electric to jointly develop home appliances

65.Honda Fit picked as “Japan Car of the Year”

66.People aged 75 years or older account for over 10% of total population in Japan

67.Advance orders for Nissan GT-R's top 2,000 in less than 2 months

68.The Tokyo version of The Michelin Guide assessed byword-of-mouth

69.HSBC to open "Premier Centre" in Tokyo's Hiroo and Akasaka areas to accommodate the rich

70.Orders to put ads in newspapers accepted over internet. New Service of Dentsu on test basis

71.Mitsubishi UFJ Securities agrees to form tie-up with Singapore's Kim Eng

72.Mazda to take part in Norway's national project. 30 hydrogen cars to be delivered

73.Toyota's consolidated sales and net profit for 6 months to Sept. rise to all-time highs

74.Nippon COMSYS most highly evaluated by students who sought employment

75.Nintendo terminates accepting repairing orders for Famicon

76.Nifty opens website for fishing enthusiasts

77.SoftBank unveils "premium" mobile phone models for winter

78.90% support controls over harmful site and "simple possession" of child pornography: survey

79.Women account for 25% of those employed by central government as career officials. All-time high