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Conventioneers helped push occupancy at Hawaii hotels up in October for the second month in a row; however, even with the boost, hotel room rates and revenue continued to drop. Statewide occupancy in October rose 1.2 percentage points to 68.3...

Researchers at Hokkaido University said Thursday they have found a combination of substances that is effective at combating swine flu. The group led by professor Tadaaki Miyazaki of the university's Research Center for Zoonosis Control found that a combination of...

The decision to delay the package – which media observers have speculated could be worth more than Y7,000bn ($78bn, €53bn, £47bn) and is intended to be implemented early next year to support a fragile economic recovery – risks fuelling opposition...

PepsiCo Inc unit on Friday, company officials said, for an estimated 10 billion yen. Suntory’s acquisition of Conway-Myrtle Beach Inc, a franchise bottler based in South Carolina, comes as Suntory is holding merger talks with Kirin Holdings Co that would...

All Nippon Airways Co is set to integrate its Japan-U.S. operations with United Airlines Inc and Continental Airlines Inc, sources familiar with the matter say. ANA expects the integration of operations to help the three Star Alliance partners enhance their...

Investigations are underway into the sudden death of the American woman who died near Agincourt Reef off Port Douglas. Thursday that the woman, believed to be aged in her 60s, had been pulled from the water after she stopped moving...There...

Treasury prices fell Thursday amid worries about an increase in debt supply. Bond yields, which move opposite to their prices, had fallen too low in recent days to make new debt being auctioned next week very attractive, said Nick Kalivas,...

A group of researchers at Hokkaido University said Thursday they have found a combination of substances that is effective in combating the H1N1 strain of influenza A.     The group led by Prof Tadaaki Miyazaki at the state-run university’s...

Peugeot-Citroen and Mitsubishi are apparently in talks today that could end up creating the world's sixth largest auto manufacturer. A report in today's Nikkei newspaper states that the European carmaker and the fourth largest Japanese automaker have entered into a...

None of the roughly 390 crew members of the 4,650-ton Onami and the 3,550-ton Sawagiri were injured in the 8:45 a.m. collision. But the Onami sustained broken railings at the rear deck and the Sawagiri about a 60-centimeter hole at...