Firms in the Lake District, popular with Japanese tourists, claim the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is damaging business.

TV personality Cristel Takigawa appeared at a British Embassy Tokyo press conference to announce that Internet streaming service Hulu had reached a video distribution deal with the BBC.

Loughborough-based Intelligent Energy Ltd. and Suzuki Motor Corporation will make a fuel-cell system for vehicles, the Nikkei reported on 7 February.
The firms will each have a 50% stake in the joint venture, Smile FC System Corporation, which will be headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Suzuki expects to start selling motorcycles with the fuel-cell system in [...]

A controversy is brewing about Hello Kitty’s citizenship.

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