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• Japanese network sues ABC over ‘Wipeout’
LOS ANGELES - Leading Japanese broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against ABC, charging that summer hit “Wipeout” is “a blatant copycat” of several of its classic Japanese competition series. TBS ...
• Japanese Man Facing Murder Charges In LA Hangs Himself
LOS ANGELES - A 61-year-old Japanese businessman, acquitted in his own country of murdering his wife, committed suicide in a Los Angeles jail cell, according to sources at the Los Angeles police headquarters. Kazuyoshi Miura hanged himself sometime ...
• Fed OK’s Japanese stake in Morgan Stanley
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve has granted approval for Japan's largest bank to purchase a stake in U.S. investment giant Morgan Stanley. The Fed issued an order Monday saying that it had approved the request of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc ...
• 1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel in chemistry
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...
• Businessman in wife's death plot hangs himself
LOS ANGELES - A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered 27 years ago in Los Angeles has committed suicide in his jail cell, less than 24 hours after he set foot in the U.S. to answer to the charges. Kazuyoshi Miura, 61 ...