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TOKYO, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (the "Company") today announced consolidated results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012. The Company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, First Section with the stock code "9684" and prepares its financial statements according to Japan GAAP. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20030403/SQUARELOGO) Key Figures (millions of yen, except percentages and per share data) Full year...
TOKYO, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704; TYO 4704), the global cloud security leader, announced earnings results for the first quarter 2012, ending March 31, 2012. For the first quarter, Trend Micro posted consolidated net sales of 22,630 million Yen (or US $284 million, 79.43JPY = 1USD). The company posted operating income of 5,568 million Yen (or US $70 million) and net income of 3,283 million Yen (or US $41 million) for the quarter. "Recently we...
BEIJING and SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tapjoy (www.tapjoy.com/), a mobile advertising and publishing platform, today announced a new program called the Tapjoy Asia Fund, backed by a $5 million investment. The Fund is designed to encourage and support developers throughout Asia in the innovation and growth of Free-to-Play mobile apps for the Android and iOS platforms. Marking the company's continued commitment to the Asia Pacific market, with offices already...
-- Features life diagnosis software, small size 30 mm x 50 mm, and max. 64 GB capacity-- Fast mSATA type SSD module realizes 170 MB/sec read and 70 MB/sec write speedsTokyo, May 9, 2012 - (ACN Newswire) - TDK Corporation has developed the mSATA type SSD (Solid-State Drive) SMG3B series with support for 3 Gbps serial ATA. The products will be available from July 2012.The SMG3B series drives with mSATA interface measure only about 30 mm x 50 mm andoffer storage...
Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com Gone are the days of Nintendo’s dominance. Once a video game powerhouse in the 80s and 90s, the Japanese play makers all but fizzled out at the turn of the century. Then, in 2006 Nintendo brought the Wii into living rooms once more as families gathered together to play games of virtual golf or give way to nostalgia and play their favorite games of yore, the likes of Super Mario Brothers or Donkey Kong. The next year, Apple introduced the iPhone and iPod...
TOKYO, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sisvel, a global leader in managing intellectual property and maximizing the value of patents, recently celebrated at the Italian Embassy in Japan the 5th anniversary of the founding of its subsidiary Sisvel Japan K.K. Present at the celebration was His Excellency Vincenzo Petrone, Italian Ambassador to Japan, and a large delegation from the Japanese consumer electronics industry. The Sisvel office, located in Tokyo, is strategically positioned...
TOKYO, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NHN Japan Corporation announced on April 26 the opening of the "Sticker Shop" for its free calling and free messaging app "LINE" (http://line.naver.jp/), where you can purchase stickers (some available for free) featuring popular characters from around the world. Furthermore, on top of the usual features that allow the exchange of text, location info, images, emoji (pictograms) and stickers, a new function which allows users to send video and...
Researchers may have found a way to protect us against otherwise deadly chemical attacks, such as the subway sarin incident in Tokyo that left thirteen people dead and thousands more injured or with temporary vision problems. The method is based on a new and improved version of a detoxifying enzyme produced naturally by our livers, according to the report in the April 2012 issue of Chemistry & Biology, a Cell Press publication. "The sarin attack in Tokyo in 1995 demonstrated that both...
TOKYO, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NHN Japan Corporation (hereinafter referred to as NHN Japan) announced that the number of registered users for its free calling and free messaging app "LINE" (http://line.naver.jp/) exceeded a figure of 30 million as of 18 April, 10 months since the launch of its service. The number of registered users in Japan has exceeded 13 million and associated services have also been showing rapid growth. -Graph to show registered user...
NEW YORK and TOKYO, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), New York's Hometown Airline(TM), and Japan Airlines (JAL) today announced a codeshare agreement, expanding the current interline partnership between the carriers' two networks in Tokyo and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport as well as Boston's Logan International Airport. Customers looking to make a reservation, which will feature JAL's code on JetBlue-operated flights, can book...
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The Japanese Alps are a major weather component and dictate a lot of weather patterns in Japan. The first is when Typhoons move northward and impact Japan. If they remain on the eastern side of the Alps they will bring very heavy rain to the capitol region of Tokyo along with very strong winds. In the winter the Alps create two types of climates at the same latitude. On the Western side near the city of Kanazawa Japan, the winters can be long and harsh with snowfall amounts in the feet....
Image Credit: Joshua Kelly Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in the country of Japan. It does have a large impact on the weather in the region. The first impact is shown in the image to the left. This is known as a cap cloud as it sits snuggly on top of the mountain. This feature can be indicative of strong turbulence in the area for aviation purposes. The second impact that Mt. Fuji can have is the winter weather in the Tokyo area. When storm systems come in from the west they tend to...
Typically when you think of tornadoes you think of the Plains of the United States. Japan does get tornadoes but most are associated with Tropical Activity. On May 5th 2012, the storm which produced this tornado was not associated with a Typhoon. It was more of a super-cell type thunderstorm. Videos and images available shown the tornado had a wide base. The damage left behind indicates that it could have been a strong storm approaching the middle of the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The storm...
Tokyo is located in the Central part of Japan. On the Eastern shore of Japan is Tokyo Bay which connects to the Pacific Ocean. Just outside Tokyo Bay runs a warm ocean current which plays a role in the climate of Tokyo. Temperatures for Tokyo Japan: Average temperatures for the months of January through March range from the 30’s in January upwards to the 50’s by March. April starts the season of spring and the temperatures range from the 50’s to the 70’s. The months of July...
The Frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, is a primitive shark species, of the family Chlamydoselachidae in the order Hexanchiformes. The Southern African frilled shark is a proposed new species from the Southern African range. These two species are very different from the other hexanchiform sharks, and it has recently been proposed that the two frilled sharks should be given their own order: Chlamydoselachiformes. Additional extinct types are known from fossil teeth; thought to be...
