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Enter Don Quijote, a chain of one-stop discount shops that offers more than just no-frills low prices, established in Tokyo in 1980.

Said CDOs are then sold on with badged credit ratings in the debt markets to players (banks, investment houses, municipalities, pension funds, etc.) around the world who do not necessarily appreciate

Recently, however, the Japanese cedar tree has found a new life again, and is now being used for furniture.

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January saw six fake reports of large share purchases made to the Financial Service Agency’s online disclosure website.

Tokyo teen fashion Mecca, Shibuya, is having an unusual bohemian moment.

Venezuela is one of the most resource-rich nations in the world yet it is also one of the most politically risky countries today.

Ceder was seen as undesirable because, not only is the knotting very prominent, but the wood is also very ductile and is prone to dent and scratch and is not tough enough to endure the wear-andtear of

Speaking of equity stakes—real ones—Mizuho Corporate agreed to buy US$1.2 billion of preferred stock through Merrill Lynch.

Seeing a hot item with the potential for a remake, many labels have launched their own versions, like Love Boat’s pastel cloth bags with ‘Girls Save the Earth’ scrawled across the front.

The big news in Venezuela is always about oil.