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Osaka bourse inaugurates J-Gate derivatives trading system

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Securities Exchange President Michio Yoneda (L) receives a gift from Lars Ottersgard, senior vice president of Nasdaq OMX Market Technology, in Osaka on Feb. 14, 2011. A new financial derivatives trading system, named J-Gate, went into operation that day at the OSE, handling buy and sell orders about 20 times faster than previously. The new system was developed by Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.

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OSE unveils steps to stimulate Nasdaq Japan Market

TOKYO, Japan - Goro Tatsumi, president of the Osaka Securities Exchange, announced measures to stimulate trading at the Nasdaq Japan Market, including an exemption of membership fees for companies seen as promising, at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 28. The move is apparently designed to prevent listed companies from leaving after Nasdaq Japan Inc. terminates its contract with the OSE in October.

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Nasdaq blames economic slump for Japan pullout

TOKYO, Japan - John Hilley, chairman and chief executive officer of Nasdaq International Inc., speaks at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Aug. 19 about Nasdaq's decision to pull out of Japan. He said the country's economic slump was to blame.

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Osaka bourse to end alliance with Nasdaq Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Goro Tatsumi, president of the Osaka Securities Exchange, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Aug. 16 about the termination of its business alliance with Nasdaq Japan Inc.

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Starbucks opens 25% higher than IPO on Nasdaq Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Goro Tatsumi (L), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), hands the president of Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd., Yuji Tsunoda, a document approving the listing of the company's shares on the Nasdaq Japan stock market at the OSE on Oct. 10. Starbucks Coffee Japan made a superb debut on the market for start-up firms on the OSE, up 16,000 yen or 25% from its initial public offering (IPO) price of 64,000 yen per share.

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Tokyo stocks end sharply lower on Nasdaq fall

TOKYO, Japan - A man watches the price board at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihombashi on Sept. 5. Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ended the day's morning session sharply lower on overnight falls in U.S. technology stocks.

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Nasdaq Japan seeking to sell non-Japanese ETFs

TOKYO, Japan - Frank G. Zarb, chairman of U.S. Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19. He said Nasdaq Japan will seek a change in Japanese securities regulations to promote non-Japanese exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for Japanese investors. Zarb is in Tokyo for the first anniversary celebrations for the Nasdaq Japan market, the Japanese sibling of the U.S. Nasdaq market.

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Nikkei tumbles to 27-month low in morning

TOKYO, Japan - An electric signboard at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihonbashi commercial district shows the Nikkei Stock Average plunged to a 27-month low in the morning session of Feb. 8. Tokyo stocks were battered by a fall in the U.S. Nasdaq index overnight and data showing a shrinkage of the Japanese economy.

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Tokyo stock prices hit 16-month closing low

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a price board outside the office of a securities company in Tokyo's Yaesu district July 28 as the key 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average hit a 16-month closing low on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with information technology issues dampened by an overnight fall in New York's Nasdaq composite index.

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Launch of Nasdaq Japan celebrated

TOKYO, Japan - International business and government leaders celebrate the June 19 launch of Nasdaq Japan -- Japan's version of the technology-laden U.S. Nasdaq market -- by opening a barrel of Japanese sake at a Tokyo hotel. Nasdaq Japan is located on the premises of the Osaka Securities Exchange.

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Nikkei hits this year's lowest close

TOKYO, Japan - Men look at a price board listing issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on May 9 as share prices fell sharply, hit by Monday's plunge in New York's technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index. The key 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average marked its lowest close this year.

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8 firms apply for listing on Nasdaq Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - The presidents of eight companies (at the back) that applied for listing on the newly-opened Nasdaq Japan stock market attend a news conference in Tokyo on May 8, along with Tatsuyuki Saeki (R in front), president of Nasdaq Japan Inc., and Kyoji Kitamura (C), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE). The Nasdaq Japan market was opened the same day by the OSE.

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OSE, Nasdaq Japan sign accord to launch Nasdaq Japan market

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoji Kitamura (R), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), and Tatsuyuki Saeki, president of Nasdaq Japan Planning Co., shake hands in Osaka on April 19 after signing a business tie-up agreement to launch the Nasdaq Japan stock market in June.

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Nasdaq Japan Club holds 1st meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (R), president of Softbank Corp., Frank Zarb (C), chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) of the United States, and Hirotaro Higuchi, honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries Ltd., shake hands at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Oct. 12. They were briefing reporters on the inaugural meeting of a corporate club set up to prepare for the start of Nasdaq Japan, the Japanese version of the technology-laden U.S. equity market.

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Nasdaq sister system to operate in Japan next year

Frank Zarb (L), chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) of the United States, and Masayoshi Son, president of Japan's leading software house, Softbank Corp., shake hands at a Tokyo hotel June 15 in announcing their agreement to set up a new company to start in Japan a sister system of the Nasdaq over-the-counter stock market by the end of next year.

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OSE, Nasdaq Japan sign accord to launch Nasdaq Japan market

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoji Kitamura (R), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), and Tatsuyuki Saeki, president of Nasdaq Japan Planning Co., shake hands in Osaka on April 19 after signing a business tie-up agreement to launch the Nasdaq Japan stock market in June.

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Tatsuyuki SAEKI - the president of Nasdaq Japan Planning. (February 2, 2000)

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Osaka bourse inaugurates J-Gate derivatives trading system

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Securities Exchange President Michio Yoneda (L) receives a gift from Lars Ottersgard, senior vice president of Nasdaq OMX Market Technology, in Osaka on Feb. 14, 2011. A new financial derivatives trading system, named J-Gate, went into operation that day at the OSE, handling buy and sell orders about 20 times faster than previously. The new system was developed by Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (Kyodo)

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OSE unveils steps to stimulate Nasdaq Japan Market

TOKYO, Japan - Goro Tatsumi, president of the Osaka Securities Exchange, announced measures to stimulate trading at the Nasdaq Japan Market, including an exemption of membership fees for companies seen as promising, at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 28. The move is apparently designed to prevent listed companies from leaving after Nasdaq Japan Inc. terminates its contract with the OSE in October. (Kyodo)

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Nasdaq blames economic slump for Japan pullout

TOKYO, Japan - John Hilley, chairman and chief executive officer of Nasdaq International Inc., speaks at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Aug. 19 about Nasdaq's decision to pull out of Japan. He said the country's economic slump was to blame. (Kyodo)

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Osaka bourse to end alliance with Nasdaq Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Goro Tatsumi, president of the Osaka Securities Exchange, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Aug. 16 about the termination of its business alliance with Nasdaq Japan Inc. (Kyodo)

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Starbucks Coffee founder Schultz talks with Kyodo News

TOKYO, Japan - Howard Schultz, founder and global strategist at leading U.S. coffee-shop chain Starbucks Coffee Co., talks with Kyodo News at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 11. Schultz was in Tokyo for the Oct. 10 listing of Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd. on the Nasdaq Japan market.

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Starbucks opens 25% higher than IPO on Nasdaq Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Goro Tatsumi (L), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), hands the president of Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd., Yuji Tsunoda, a document approving the listing of the company's shares on the Nasdaq Japan stock market at the OSE on Oct. 10. Starbucks Coffee Japan made a superb debut on the market for start-up firms on the OSE, up 16,000 yen or 25% from its initial public offering (IPO) price of 64,000 yen per share.

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Nasdaq Japan seeking to sell non-Japanese ETFs

TOKYO, Japan - Frank G. Zarb, chairman of U.S. Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19. He said Nasdaq Japan will seek a change in Japanese securities regulations to promote non-Japanese exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for Japanese investors. Zarb is in Tokyo for the first anniversary celebrations for the Nasdaq Japan market, the Japanese sibling of the U.S. Nasdaq market.

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Launch of Nasdaq Japan celebrated

TOKYO, Japan - International business and government leaders celebrate the June 19 launch of Nasdaq Japan -- Japan's version of the technology-laden U.S. Nasdaq market -- by opening a barrel of Japanese sake at a Tokyo hotel. Nasdaq Japan is located on the premises of the Osaka Securities Exchange.

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Nikkei hits this year's lowest close

TOKYO, Japan - Men look at a price board listing issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on May 9 as share prices fell sharply, hit by Monday's plunge in New York's technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index. The key 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average marked its lowest close this year.

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8 firms apply for listing on Nasdaq Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - The presidents of eight companies (at the back) that applied for listing on the newly-opened Nasdaq Japan stock market attend a news conference in Tokyo on May 8, along with Tatsuyuki Saeki (R in front), president of Nasdaq Japan Inc., and Kyoji Kitamura (C), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE). The Nasdaq Japan market was opened the same day by the OSE.

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Nasdaq Japan unveils strict listing requirements+

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (L), president and chief executive officer of Softbank Corp., Tatsuyuki Saeki (C), president of Nasdaq Japan Planning Co., and Frank Zarb (R), chairman and chief executive officer of the U.S. National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23. Zarb said that companies on the Nasdaq Japan market will be delisted if they fail to meet NASD's standards.

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OSE, Softbank announce tie-up for Nasdaq Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - The Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) and Nasdaq Japan Planning Co. have agreed to launch in mid-2000 a new over-the-counter market for high-growth venture businesses called Nasdaq Japan. Photo shows OSE President Kyoji Kitamura (L) and Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, who also heads Nasdaq Japan Planning, shaking hands at a Tokyo hotel after their announcement on Dec. 24.

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Softbank to take stake in Nasdaq Europe

LONDON, Britain - The National Association of Securities Dealers of the United States (NASD), the operator of the Nasdaq stock market, plans to launch along with three partners a European version of the U.S. over-the-counter market targeted at new and high-growth business ventures in Europe. Nasdaq Europe will take off in the fourth quarter of 2000 in step with the start of trading for a Japanese version of Nasdaq, creating a 24-hour marketplace linking the United States, Europe and Japan. Photo shows Masayoshi Son, president of Japan's Softbank Corp., which will take a stake in the new market, with the NASD the lead and managing partner, at a press conference in London on Nov. 5.

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Nasdaq Japan Club holds 1st meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (R), president of Softbank Corp., Frank Zarb (C), chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) of the United States, and Hirotaro Higuchi, honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries Ltd., shake hands at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Oct. 12. They were briefing reporters on the inaugural meeting of a corporate club set up to prepare for the start of Nasdaq Japan, the Japanese version of the technology-laden U.S. equity market.

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Nasdaq sister system to operate in Japan next year

Frank Zarb (L), chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) of the United States, and Masayoshi Son, president of Japan's leading software house, Softbank Corp., shake hands at a Tokyo hotel June 15 in announcing their agreement to set up a new company to start in Japan a sister system of the Nasdaq over-the-counter stock market by the end of next year. ==Kyodo