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  Mazda to Use More Overseas Parts

  Mazda Motor aims to lift its use of parts from overseas to as much as 30% of total domestic components, as the yen maintains its strength.

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  Governance Logjam At Japan Inc.

  For corporate governance in Japan, it's one step forward, two steps back.

• Japanese Ruling Party Faces Revolt

  A group of 16 lawmakers within the ruling Democratic Party of Japan launched a revolt that could increase doubt about the stability of Naoto Kan's government.

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  Toyota Opens New Japan Plant

  Toyota Motor opened its first group assembly plant in Japan in 18 years, highlighting the commitment Toyota has to manufacturing in Japan despite macroeconomic pressures that would seem to make the strategy impractical.

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  Japan, India Sign Trade Pact

  Japan's government signed a free-trade agreement with India, bolstering ties with the fast-growing South Asian economy with which it shares a mutual concern about larger economic rival China.

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  Search for Iwo Jima Dead Stepped Up

  Sixty-six years after the bloody battle of Iwo Jima, the Japanese government is accelerating an unusual project to search for the large number of undiscovered remains left on the Pacific island.

  • Photos: Stepping Up the Search

• India, Japan Eye $9 Billion Fund

  India has proposed to set up a revolving fund of $9 billion jointly with Japan to help finance the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project.

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  Japan's DPJ Proposes Ozawa Suspension

  The leadership of Japan's ruling party decided to propose suspending former leader Ichiro Ozawa over an alleged funds violation, just days after Ozawa refused to voluntarily leave as suggested by the prime minister.

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  Bank of Japan Sees Improvement

  The Bank of Japan's policy board kept its easy monetary policy unchanged but raised its assessment of the broader economy for the first time in nine months.

• Japan's Potential Inflation Problem

• China Overtakes Japan as World's No. 2 Economy

• Rising China Bests a Shrinking Japan

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  Brewer Sapporo Raises Soft-Drink Stake

• Support for Japan's Cabinet Hits Low

• U.S. Faults Drivers, Not Toyota

• Canon Expects Dollar to Strengthen in Second Half

• Japan Machinery Orders Revive

• Nissan Profit Rises 78%

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  IMF Warns on Japan Banks

• WSJ's New Japanese Web site