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Affordable hybrids are Japan's answer to record oil prices

Tokyo  - Japanese car manufacturers aim to counter the twin challenges of climate change and spiralling oil prices with a range of affordable hybrid cars which run on both petrol and electricity.

Tokyo stocks open down on stronger yen

Tokyo stocks open down on stronger yenTokyo  - Tokyo stocks o

Tokyo stocks open higher on eased US economic worries

Discovery shuttle makes orbit

Washington - Discovery shuttle blasted off Saturday and reached orbit en route to the International Space Station to deliver the second large piece of a Japanese research laboratory and fix a malfu

Good weather expected as Japan's Kibo heads to space

Washington  - Good weather expected as Japan's Kibo heads to space

Japan rules out dispatch of military plane to quake-hit China

Japan rules out dispatch of military plane to quake-hit China

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