Jump Starting Japan

Features and Analysis

• Lost ideas

  What has happened to Japan's inventors?

• Tsunami anniversary

  Four years on

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• Woes of sake brewers

  Post-Fukushima, sake sales from the region have plummeted

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• Sony minus mobile?

  The chief executive of Sony talks about corporate strategies

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• Tokyo tech start-ups

  Can Japan's capital rival California's Silicon Valley?

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• Robot vacuum cleaners

  Dyson's first robot vacuum cleaner unveiled in Japan

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• Emoji upgrade

  'Diverse' emoji icons nearly here Newsbeat

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• Nobel winner

  US, Japanese scientists share the 2014 Nobel Prize for physics

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• Negative savings rate

  Japan's notable transformation

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• The Abenomics vote

  Will Japan's voters give its Prime Minister another chance?

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• 1% inflation

  UK and Japan share worries over slowing inflation

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• Trade talks

  Trans-Pacific Partnership: What's at stake

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