Tokyo - Birds from a second quail farm in the central Japanese city of Toyohashi tested positive for the highly pathogenic H7N6 strain of bird flu, the local government said Monday.
The authorities inspected quail farms within 5-kilometre-radius of a farm, where the H7N6 virus was detected Friday, and found the birds at another farm had been infected.
Tokyo - Japanese electronics company Fujitsu Ltd on Monday said it has reached an agreement with Australia's telecommunications firm Telstra Corp to acquire its information and technology subsidiary.
The Japanese firm intends to expand its business in the Australian market by acquiring all the entire of Kaz Group Pty Ltd, Fujitsu said.
Fujitsu, after expanding its loss forecast for the business year ending March 31 to 50 billion yen (515 million dollars), is refocusing its activities on computer services.
The deal, which amounts to 200 million Australian dollars (127 million US dollars), would make the Japanese firm the third-largest IT services provider by revenue in Australia.
Tokyo - Japan's key Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost more than 3 per cent Monday following Wall Street's decline before the weekend and the yen's advance against the US dollar.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 242.46 points, or 3.2 per cent, to 7,325.96.
The broader Topix index of all first section issues was also down 18.6 points, or 2.56 per cent, to 738.11.
Beijing - Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone arrived in China on Saturday, one day after Chinese officials protested his comments on a disputed group of islands.
Nakasone was scheduled to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi for talks on bilateral, regional and international issues, Chinese officials said.
Japanese media said Nakasone wanted to "accelerate the build-up of mutually beneficial strategic relations with China" during his two-day visit, his first to China since he took office in September.
Tokyo - Sony Corp's president is to resign in April as the company was forecasting a record loss in the current business year because of a surge in the yen's value and declining sales, it said Friday.
The Japanese electronics giant announced that Ryoji Chubachi would step down and chairman Howard Stringer would serve in both posts as the firm seeks to achieve a recovery in its core electronics business.
Tokyo - Birds from a second quail farm in the central Japanese city of Toyohashi tested positive for the highly pathogenic H7N6 strain of bird flu, the local government said Monday. 
Tokyo - Japan's key Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost more than 3 per cent Monday following Wall Street's decline before the weekend and the yen's advance against the US dollar.
Beijing - Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone arrived in China on Saturday, one day after Chinese officials protested his comments on a disputed group of islands.
Tokyo - Sony Corp's president is to resign in April as the company was forecasting a record loss in the current business year because of a surge in the yen's value and declining sales, it said Friday.
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