Tokyo Business News

TOKYO (MarketWatch) — CME Group Inc. (CME) and RIM Intelligence, a Japanese energy information service provider, said Tuesday that they have signed an agreement… Most Asian stocks fell, sending the regional index to its second-straight drop, as gains in the yen cut the earnings outlook for Japan’s exporters.… Computer chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc. filed for Japan’s largest manufacturing bankruptcy Monday after amassing debts from nose-diving prices, competition from Samsung and flooding in… KVH Co. Ltd., Asia’s leading information delivery platform, and Koscom, a leading financial IT solutions provider, announced today that they will offer proximity hosting… The Besen Group, an international mobile data industry management consulting practice headquartered in the Washington DC area, with representatives in Paris and Tokyo, announced… Japan’s securities watchdog is investigating a small Tokyo-based broker, ITM Securities Co, over its possible role in a scandal involving the suspected disappearance of… The entire board of scandal-tainted Olympus Corp. is resigning, and a new president and chairman were tapped Monday to lead a turnaround at the… Japan’s Elpida Memory Inc said it filed for protection from creditors on Monday with 448 billion yen in debt, the biggest bankruptcy filing by… The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association , in cooperation with Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. , has announced it will hold TOKYO GAME SHOW 2012 at… Small Tokyo-listed companies posted their longest streak of advances in more than 50 years as government spending on rebuilding from the March 11 earthquake… Asia stocks trade mixed, with Japanese stocks rising on a weaker yen and Hong Kong rising, but with weakness in Seoul and Sydney. The Japanese government will seek the resignation of Tokyo Electric’s board of directors at a shareholder meeting in June in return for injecting $13… Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that its consolidated subsidiaries and an equity method affiliate each received notice today from Japan’s Ministry of Defense Asia’s largest bio event held annually in Tokyo: INT’L BIO FORUM & BIO EXPO JAPAN will be renewed as “BIO tech 2012”, moving to… Cypress Semiconductor Corporation of San Jose California and Tokyo Electron Device Limited today announced that they have jointly developed a USB 3.0 device interface…