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TORONTO, June 27 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan told Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday he was closely watching recent labor unrest in China where a burst of strikes has disrupted production at Japanese automakers.

…Kan brought up the issue in talks with Hu on the sidelines
of a Group of 20 leaders’ gathering in Canada. “(Kan) said he was closely monitoring the various labor
problems in China,” a Japanese delegation official told
reporters. Hu told Kan he wanted to “deal appropriately” with the
issue, the official said. Japanese auto makers Toyota (7203.T) and Honda (7267.T)
said last week that major car factories in south China halted
work due to strikes at parts suppliers, the latest in a series
of strikes over pay at parts suppliers in Guangdong and other
parts of China. Despite the latest strikes, the leaders of Asia’s two
biggest economies said they wanted to strengthen trade ties
that benefit both sides. Tensions remain between Japan and China related to their
wartime past but both sides have stressed the need for closer
relations given growing economic ties. Bilateral trade grew to $266.8 billion in 2008, a rise of
13 percent from 2007, making China the top two-way trade
partner of Japan, according to Japanese…

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The spectactular search deal Microsoft and Yahoo struck last summer doesn’t extend to all country markets. In Japan, Yahoo search will be powered by Google in the future, as announced [JP] on the Google Japan blog and by Yahoo Japan itself [JP, PDF] earlier today (Yahoo Japan’s current search engine is provided by Yahoo in the US).

…A service, will remain in place). Before going for Yahoo Search Technology, Yahoo Japan actually used Google’s search engine from April 2001 to May 2004.
Bing, whose Japanese version moved out of beta two weeks ago, won’t play a role for the time being, however. Yahoo in the US already issued a statement on the Yahoo Japan-Google pact, stressing the Tokyo office made the decision to go for Google as a separate entity and that it does not impact the global rollout and implementation of the Yahoo! search alliance with Microsoft, except in the Japanese market.
For context, it’s worth noting that Yahoo Japan is not only Japan’s leading search engine but the country’s biggest website. Yahoo in the US actually owns just a stake of around…

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Yahoo Japan To Use Google Search In The Futur

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