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As part of its restructuring drive, Sony plans to sell its former HQ and surrounding buildings in Shinagawa, Tokyo according to local press reports. The sale is expected to raise $150 million.

Alphabet's secretive Schaft Inc. shows off new bipedal robot in Tokyo

The final pitches were made at Startup Weekend Tokyo yesterday. Here are ten of the ideas we heard.

There was no shortage of creativity among the many teams at Startup Weekend Tokyo 2011. But when the dust settled on Sunday evening, Q Live was proclaimed the winner.

Mumbai/Tokyo: Reliance Capital has completed the sale of a 26 percent stake in its life insurance venture Reliance Life to Japan's Nippon Life for over Rs (rpt) Rs 3,000 crore, the Anil Ambani-led firm said Wednesday.

The production version of Mazda6 Performance at the Paris Auto Show - After the exhibited at the Tokyo Motor Show 2011 event, now turn to show off Mazda6 at the Paris Auto Show 2012. Once on display, Mazda begun to include these Mazda6 into mass production process. However, the Paris Auto Show 2012

The arrival of Apple's iPad at the end of last month sent shock waves through Japan's publishing industry. In the ensuing 2 1/2 weeks, dozens of publishers have announced plans to digitize magazine and other content, while others have set up think tanks to ponder their changed marketplace. Even the National Diet Library succumbed to iPad-mania: Its director announced last week that he wanted to start collecting digital books from 2011.

The super-computer Tsubame 2.0 has been developed by the Tokyo Institute of Technology in collaboration with NEC and HP. It promises a 2.39 petaflops of computing capacity (30 times higher than its predecessor Tsubame 1.0) thanks to some 2,816 Intel six-core 2.96GHz Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) microprocessors and 4,224 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs with lower power consumption as only 1MW (1/25th of its predecessor).

The final pitches were made at Startup Weekend Tokyo yesterday. Here are ten of the ideas we heard.

NTT Docomo recently announced a research project that would see it track the collective movements of mobile phone users in Tokyo, aggregating spatial data that could be used for a number of purposes. This mobile spatial statistics endeavor focuses on two pretty fascinating projects

The next-gen handy entertaining gadget from Sony marked as "PS Vita (the PlayStation Vita) will be completely released in Japan on 17 December, according to Sony reports. The information arrived from Sony's one official, Hiroshi Kawano at a discussion in Tokyo just this Wednesday.