On May 17th, 2010, “Astellas Pharma Inc.” announced that it agreed to buy “OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.”, the drug company in USA. The total amount of its TOB will be about US$ 4 billion. Most drug companies in Japan are facing at the year 2010 problem. Most of their bread-and-butter products [...]

 Many makers are penetrating into the EV market. The common problem is the paucity of capacity of lithium-ion battery. The running distance of “i-MiEV”, which is made by Mitsubishi Motors and mounts the battery, is only 160km on one full charge. It is inadequate for the long running distance.
 Indeed the [...]

 According to Ministry of Finance, the net external asset balance of Japan as of the end of 2009 increased of 18.1% over the end of last year and became Japanese Yen 266.223 trillion (about US$ 2.95 trillion). It marked a record high. The reason is that it is arising out [...]

 General Manager Koji Asahara and his study group of “National Center for Child Health and Development announced that they found the gene which plays a huge role when a tendon becomes developed. A tendon has an important role to join muscle & bone, and then transmit the power of muscle [...]

 Nagoya Bunri University determined to give iPad away free to all of its new students, who enter its Department of Information and Multimedia in next April in order to put it to practical use in its lessons and then cultivate human resources who can active in information society. Its students [...]

 On May 13th, 2010, Suzuki announced that the company carries out the demonstration experiment of PHV (Plug in Hybrid Vehicle) from this fall. The company sets several tens of PHVs in its agents within Japan in order to collect the information of driving data in various transportation conditions and maintenance [...]

 On May 13th, 2010, Medical School of Kurume University announced to start the new clinical trial regarding “cancer peptide vaccine therapy” against lung cancer, liver cancer and vaginal cystocele. The school is looking for patients who have ideas to receive this therapy.
 ”Cancer peptide vaccine therapy” of the school is that [...]

 The combined teams of Akita University, Gunma University and Kobe University found out that the specified enzyme within a cell has the mechanism, which inhibits the effects of the toxicity of glutamic acid to wipe out brain cell. The team put up the result on line Nature dated May 12th, [...]

 ”eBook shop PAPYLESS” begins to deliver the rental digital book with the period of browse. Users can use this service via iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, smart phone and PC. Without browsing them, they can browse contents due to “MEDUSA”, which is its own delivery system of digital book.
 The number of [...]

 On May 10th, 2010, “TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company)” announced to invest the project related to the additional construction of atomic power plant in Texas, USA. The total operating cost becomes around US$ 11.8 billion and the total investment amount invested by TEPCO is US$125 million.
 TEPCO can obtain 9.23% of [...]