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  Broadcast International--Communication & Training Solutions for Business
Broadcast International is a corporate communications technology company, which provides alternatives for solving business problems using broadband delivery technologies including satellite, WI-FI and Internet streaming.
Broadcast International is currently meeting with several potential distribution partners in Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries to explore immediate and long-term business opportunities.
Broadcast International will work with the Executive Committee of EDCU to promote its satellite, streaming media, and video production resources to businesses that are relocating/expanding into Utah.
www.brin.com /investor   (2728 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan became a regional power that was able to defeat the forces of both China and Russia.
Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch.
Japan's huge government debt, which totals more than 160% of GDP, and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ja.html   (1477 words)

  
 International Socialist Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Japan and the U.S. were thrown headlong into competition and war to decide which capitalist power would rule China and the rest of Asia.
Japan expert Patrick Smith argues that "Washington did in Japan what it did in many Third World countries during the Cold War: It covertly but actively supported the political elite it had restored in 1948.
Far from bringing Japan and the region liberation and democracy, the U.S. created a collection of reactionary regimes that served the American interests and suppressed the aspirations of workers and peasants.
www.isreview.org /issues/29/japan_occupation.shtml   (9059 words)

  
 86th PGA Championship to set a new international broadcast mark at Whistling Straits
A year ago, the PGA Championship international broadcast was distributed in 161 territories with a household reach of 359,952,970.
The international broadcast of the season's final major includes a recently completed multi-year agreement between The PGA of America and Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), one of Japan's leading television companies.
TBS will broadcast all four days of the Championship in Japan, leading to a record amount of exposure in that country for the season's final major.
www.pga.com /news/pganews/pgamedianewsletter/broadcast081004.cfm   (413 words)

  
 Korean soap kicks up a storm in Japan - (United Press International)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tokyo, Japan, Jul. 15 (UPI) -- It's a classic love story of boy meets girl, but like any true romance, the two must overcome a number of obstacles before their love can bear fruit.
Japan's political relations with South Korea has been trying at best, since Japanese forces occupied the Korean peninsula since the turn of the 20th century until the end of World War II.
NHK will broadcast the final episode of the program at its auditorium Aug. 28, and fans have already applied by the thousands to get one of few hundred seats available.
www.washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20040715-042426-3522r.htm   (812 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Japan calls for international unity on Iraq reconstruction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
TOKYO (AP) — Japan called for "international cooperation" in rebuilding Iraq Friday, but stopped short of criticizing the United States for barring war opponents from winning reconstruction contracts.
Of Iraq's foreign debt, some $40 billion is owed to the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and other countries among 19 nations that belong to the Paris Club, an umbrella organization that conducts debt negotiations.
Japan has offered the second-largest pledge for Iraqi reconstruction after the United States, promising $1.5 billion in grants for 2004 and $3.5 billion in loans for 2005-07.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-12-12-iraq-contracts_x.htm   (606 words)

  
 CNN.com - Travel - More Japan holidays help spur international travel boom - October 13, 2000
Japan has 14 national holidays, more than many countries, and they are welcome relief to Japan's corporate soldiers, who find it hard to take paid vacation because of a business culture that emphasizes self-sacrifice and hard work.
And while travel agents say a stronger yen -- it hovered around 107 to the dollar for much of this summer, compared to 120 last summer -- and a slight improvement in Japan's economy have also contributed to the overseas travel boom, the biggest factor is the longer weekends.
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archives.cnn.com /2000/TRAVEL/NEWS/10/13/japan.travel.reut   (1115 words)

  
 grandprixcities.com - international motorsport travel guide - Suzuka City, Japan
The nearest international airport to the Suzukaland circuit is nagoya (ngo) (60kM/39MI) Travel from the airport to Suzuka is best done by public transport, which in Japan can be expensive, but will always be absolutely on time, reliable, and beat sitting in the heavy traffic during race events.
Although to visit Japan and miss the experience of Tokyo may be a mistake.
In Japan it is an honor to be called an 'ise trader.' The Castle is the center of things to see in the city.
www.grandprixcities.com /jpn.html   (3910 words)

  
 OJR article: Conference Panelists See Bright Future for Mobile Publishing
One image briefly dominated the TV news in Japan during the afternoon of Monday, June 23: It was a video of a 12-car pileup that occurred earlier that morning on the Tomei Expressway in Aichi Prefecture.
A few e-mails and phone calls later, the trucker was live on Japan?s public broadcaster -- NHK -- describing the crash scene to the nation as the TV station broadcast the grainy video from his cell phone.
Or at least that was what the early adopters were saying at the First International Moblogging Conference, held in Tokyo?s Roppongi District on July 5.
www.ojr.org /ojr/technology/1058998393.php   (1476 words)

  
 Wikipedia: NHK
NHK (日本放送協会;, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai), or Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, is Japan's public broadcaster.
It operates two terrestrial television services, NHK General TV and NHK Educational TV, three satellite services, NHK BS-1, NHK BS-2 and NHK Hi-Vision (high-definition broadcast) and three radio networks, NHK Radio 1, NHK Radio 2 and NHK FM.
For people overseas it also broadcasts NHK World TV, NHK Premium TV and NHK World Radio.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/n/nh/nhk.html   (97 words)

  
 ABC News: Japan Opens Major International Airport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Chubu Centrair International Airport, equipped with a 3,500-meter (11,550-feet) runway, officially opens Thursday February 17, 2005, to join two other international airports at Narita and Osaka as a regional hub.
Chubu Centrair International Airport will begin with 271 weekly international flights to 25 destinations abroad and 94 daily flights to 24 cities in Japan, according to the airport's web site.
The airport, which was built under private-sector leadership, has been met with anticipation as a welcome rival to Tokyo's Narita International Airport and Kansai International Airport near Osaka, which have been criticized in the industry for their high landing fees.
abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=507256&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (403 words)

  
 Greetings | 40th Japan Golf Fair 2006 International Golf Trade Show, Tokyo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The 40th Japan Golf Fair 2006 is to be held in February next year with a theme, " See and Touch the World of Golf".
The chief aim of the Japan Golf Fair is to energize golfing in Japan by becoming the leading international golf show in Asia.
Broadcast on TV, Jupiter Golf Network, prior and ongoing news before and during the Fair.
www.japangolffair.com /eng/about/greetings.html   (377 words)

  
 Japan Today - News - Japan's Leading International News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Japan's commercial satellite market has been dominated by U.S. satellite manufacturers such as Boeing Satellite Systems International Inc. Space Communications, the satellite service firm in the Mitsubishi group, ordered Superbird 7, which is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2008, according to Mitsubishi Electric.
TOKYO — IBM Japan Ltd said Thursday it will raise the ceiling on the age until which retirees can work under its re-employment system to up to 65 from the current 62, starting in April 2006.
Under the new re-employment system, IBM employees in all types of job can work until they turn 65 as "senior experts" if their abilities are judged to warrant such a position by the company.
japantoday.com /e?content=news&cat=4   (919 words)

  
 United Press International - Business(p) - Major League success hurts Japan baseball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Turn on the evening news on any of Japan's six major networks, and more often than not, the top sports item will be the performance of one of the dozen Japanese baseball players currently playing in the United States.
In fact, some baseball executives are questioning the survival of the game in Japan, and have proposed that the current two-league system of professional baseball be merged into one.
But while the debate continues to dominate Japan's sports news, one thing is clear: the nation's favorite pastime is facing a crisis, and something needs to change soon.
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20040728-024402-1652r   (1029 words)

  
 KCTS Productions Available: Seattle Public Television
From sunset over Manhattan to Alaska's Mount McKinley emerging from a blanket of clouds, this breathtaking HDTV aerial footage flies from the east (New England to Florida) to midwest (Chicago to Texas), over the great barriers (mountains and desert regions, including California) and the gorgeous natural imagery of the west (Washington, Hawaii and Alaska).
In an armchair tour combining aerial and ground photography, the renowned monuments, museums, shopping and eating meccas of the U.S. capitol city are highlighted, along with the sights of the Potomac River; historic Alexandria, Virginia; and George Washington's home in Mount Vernon, Virginia.
Death is a four part series of one hour programs that goes around the world-to Ghana, Northern Ireland, India, Israel, England, Taiwan, Japan, Australia and elsewhere-looking at the ways human beings face death and cope with grief, loss, and the possibility of a life ever after.
www.kcts.org /inside/licensees/productions/index.asp   (903 words)

  
 PM - Japan competes in Aussie Rules international cup
The program is broadcast around Australia at 5:10pm on Radio National and 6:10pm on ABC Local Radio.
Japan is participating in the 2005 Australian Football International Cup, and as Georgia Spokes reports, they're showing the other nine competing nations how it's done.
SAMURAI PLAYER: I played the other international cup in 2002, but we can't win, so this game is we must win, yeah.
www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1429572.htm   (540 words)

  
 Worldwide radio broadcast schedule lists, wavelengths & wavebands. Programme guide for your country and language. UTC ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Broadcasting from: Ecuador to North and South America, and Europe, and from Australia to the South Pacific and Asia.
Broadcasting to Ireland: on FM and MW, to UK and Ireland on short wave 49 metre band, and on the Astra 1B satellite Sky Sports channel, audio frequency 7.56MHz to UK and Europe.
Broadcasting: in FM and AM throughout New Zealand, from 28 sites, giving a customised local service to different areas, and covering 92% of the population.
www.soon.org.uk /radio.htm   (527 words)

  
 Japan Today - Executive Impact - Japan's Leading International News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Considering the high number of bankruptcies of major Japanese companies in the last several years and the fickle nature of the entertainment broadcast business, Japan's biggest movie channel, MoviePlus (Jupiter Entertainment Co, Ltd) has not only survived, but is still growing.
But awareness of Britain in Japan is a lot greater nowadays due in large part to committed efforts by British trade and cultural organizations, among them the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
When Jagath Ramanayake was a young man finishing his studies in Japan back in 1988, he hit upon an interesting idea for a business.
www.japantoday.com /e?content=executive&page=7   (605 words)

  
 Barco | Barco signs contracts worth 3 million Euro with Japan’s key broadcast stations
Barco has won major first phase projects with Japan’s broadcasters in their transition to terrestrial digital broadcasting, amounting to a total of 3 million euro.
The recent adoption of ISTUDIO by Japan’s major players confirms that ISTUDIO is currently the most advanced solution for broadcast and distribution monitoring.
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, is active in three key areas of imaging technology.
www.barco.com /corporate/en/pressreleases/show.asp?index=815   (508 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The encyclopedia's scope is international, but treatment of non-U.S. radio is often done in broad surveylike entries such as Africa, Asia, and New Zealand.
Produced in association with the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, the Encyclopedia of Radio includes more than 600 entries covering major countries and regions of the world as well as specific programs and people, networks and organizations, regulation and policies, audience research, and radio's technology.
This encyclopedic work will be the first broadly conceived reference source on a medium that is now nearly eighty years old, with essays that provide essential information on the subject as well as comment on the significance of the particular person, organization, or topic being examined.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/1579582494/broadcasteduca04   (834 words)

  
 Satellite TV Enthusiasts- DIRECTV JAPAN to build most sophisticated broadcast center in Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
DIRECTV JAPAN Inc. (DTVJ) is moving forward with the construction of the country's most sophisticated digital satellite- broadcast center in Japan.
Construction for the DTVJ broadcast center, located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, is well under way and is scheduled for completion in late May. Successively, equipment is scheduled to be delivered and installed in September.
DIRECTV JAPAN expects to premiere its direct-to-home satellite- broadcast service with approximately 100 all-digital video and CD-quality audio channels, spanning an eclectic array of Japanese and international programming genres, from big-ticket sports events and Hollywood blockbuster movies to the most popular local and national entertainment, news, educational and cultural programming.
www.satellite-daily.com /articles/directv/directv-article-3980.htm   (1050 words)

  
 United Press International - International - China against war, Japan backs it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Japan supports the policy of U.S. President Bush that the operation is to disarm Iraq, not to attack Iraqi people."
In an unprecedented move, Chinese state-run television broke into its regularly scheduled programming and broadcast live CNN footage of the military action.
State-run media also broadcast U.S. President George W. Bush's address to the American public from the Oval Office Wednesday night, Thursday in Iraq, announcing the attack had begun.
www.upi.com /inc/view.php?StoryID=20030320-020628-3618r   (1031 words)

  
 ‘Salaryman’ tops Japan’s taxpayers list - International Business - MSNBC.com
The emergence of a salaryman at the top of the heap is seen as a sign that Japan’s economy is strengthening after more than a decade in the doldrums.
It also comes as corporate Japan is under increasing pressure to reward its most successful workers with financial incentives.
Reflecting Japan’s economic recovery, the number of those paying $9.35 million or more in income tax rose from two on the 2003 list to six in the latest one.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7876361   (570 words)

  
 CNN.com - Japan tsunami alert withdrawn - Jan 19, 2005
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan's Meteorological Agency has cleared a tsunami warning it issued for the country's eastern coastline after a strong undersea earthquake.
Japan's Meteorological Agency issues tsunami warnings even when waves are expected to be relatively small as a precaution, The Associated Press reported.
Speaking on the first day of a disaster prevention conference in the Japanese city of Kobe, Jan Egeland, the U.N. Director of Disaster Relief, said many of the world's megacities, including Tokyo, are extremely vulnerable to natural disasters.
edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/19/japan.tsunami   (351 words)

  
 Celtic snap up Japan international Nakamura   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Japan international has signed a three-year deal with the Glasgow club to become manager Gordon Strachan's seventh signing this summer.
The midfielder is a major star in his homeland but, after three years with Reggina, the Japanese international is relishing the opportunity of lining up in front of the Parkhead supporters.
The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=62216   (486 words)

  
 Morrison & Foerster : International : Japan : Gone To MarketMoFo Global Deal Flow
The PDSC transaction which closed June 25, 2002 is one of several deals the firm has advised Thomson on this year.
MoFo's Thomson client team was also called in to advise with the U.S. issues arising from Thomson's acquisition of Grundig's UK Digital Intermedia Systems (DIS) business, or set-top-box activities, which was announced by Thomson on May 30.
The transaction is expected to close by the third quarter of 2002.
www.mofo.com /international/JP_en/gtm/gtm804.html   (1341 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: NORTH KOREA: On summit's eve, N Korean broadcast bashes Japan
It is the "unshakable will and determination of all the Koreans to force Japan to pay generation after generation for all the crimes the Japanese imperialists committed in the past," the official news agency KCNA blustered this week.
The recent tirade against Japan came as Kim and Koizumi were preparing to meet for a summit important to both.
This week, in a rare commentary on the abductions issue, the Minju Joson newspaper accused ultraconservative forces in Japan of trying to use a recent rally in Tokyo for the return of the abductees' families to "fan hostility" against the North.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=11414   (646 words)

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