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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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Hoya to sell Pentax-brand camera business to Ricoh

TOKYO, Japan - Ricoh Co. President Shiro Kondo (L) and Hoya Corp. President Hiroshi Suzuki shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on July 1, 2011. Optical products maker Hoya said it will sell the Pentax-brand digital camera business to office equipment maker Ricoh on Oct. 1 to focus its management resources on its mainstay medical equipment.

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Ricoh acquires IBM's business-oriented printer business

NEW YORK, United States - Masamitsu Sakurai (R), president and chief executive officer of Ricoh Co., announced Jan. 25 that the Tokyo-based company will acquire IBM's business-oriented printer operations for 87 billion yen. He was joined by top IBM executives at a news conference in New York, where he said the global market for business-oriented digital printers will expand to 3-4 trillion yen a year from 1 trillion yen now.

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Copier blocks illicit copying of confidential documents

TOKYO, Japan - Ricoh Co. said Dec. 9 it has developed a printer-photocopier capable of automatically blocking unauthorized duplication of classified documents. A woman holds a copy (R) imprinted with masked dots and a photocopy (left) containing no prints. If a person tries to make a photocopy of documents with masked patterns on the new copier, it will recognize the patterns and produce blank gray paper instead of duplicating the documents, the company said.

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Konica, Minolta set to launch holding company for integration

TOKYO, Japan - The new logo is displayed Aug. 4 for Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., which will be set up by Japanese camera and office equipment makers Konica Corp. and Minolta Co. on Tuesday for the integration of their business operations scheduled for Oct. 1. The holding company will challenge the top three leaders in the precision instrument industry -- Canon Inc., Fuji Photo Film Co. and Ricoh Co.

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Yahoo Japan adds image search function to auction site

TOKYO, Japan - Yahoo Japan Corp., operator of Japan's top Internet portal site Yahoo! Japan, said July 18 it has added a new technology to its auction site (photo) that allows users to search for images quickly on the Internet. It is the first time that an image search function has been introduced on Internet auction sites, the company said. The new technology, developed by office automation equipment maker Ricoh Co., can search for images that have similar patterns, colors and other characteristics among vast amounts of images on the Internet.

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Ricoh unveils new 360-degree spherical camera

Ricoh Co. unveils on Sept. 3, 2015, its new and improved Ricoh Theta digital camera that can capture 360-degree spherical images. The model will go on sale in late October in Japan, other parts of Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hoya to sell Pentax-brand camera business to Ricoh

TOKYO, Japan - Ricoh Co. President Shiro Kondo (L) and Hoya Corp. President Hiroshi Suzuki shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on July 1, 2011. Optical products maker Hoya said it will sell the Pentax-brand digital camera business to office equipment maker Ricoh on Oct. 1 to focus its management resources on its mainstay medical equipment. (Kyodo)

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Ricoh acquires IBM's business-oriented printer business

NEW YORK, United States - Masamitsu Sakurai (R), president and chief executive officer of Ricoh Co., announced Jan. 25 that the Tokyo-based company will acquire IBM's business-oriented printer operations for 87 billion yen. He was joined by top IBM executives at a news conference in New York, where he said the global market for business-oriented digital printers will expand to 3-4 trillion yen a year from 1 trillion yen now. (Kyodo)

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Ricoh sets 100% clean energy target as part of RE100 initiative

Undated file photo shows Ricoh Co. President and CEO Yoshinori Yamashita. The office equipment maker has become the first Japanese company to join the RE100 global initiative encouraging businesses to use 100 percent renewable energy in an effort to reduce climate-damaging emissions, company officials said April 21, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Copier blocks illicit copying of confidential documents

TOKYO, Japan - Ricoh Co. said Dec. 9 it has developed a printer-photocopier capable of automatically blocking unauthorized duplication of classified documents. A woman holds a copy (R) imprinted with masked dots and a photocopy (left) containing no prints. If a person tries to make a photocopy of documents with masked patterns on the new copier, it will recognize the patterns and produce blank gray paper instead of duplicating the documents, the company said. (Kyodo)

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Konica, Minolta set to launch holding company for integration

TOKYO, Japan - The new logo is displayed Aug. 4 for Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., which will be set up by Japanese camera and office equipment makers Konica Corp. and Minolta Co. on Tuesday for the integration of their business operations scheduled for Oct. 1. The holding company will challenge the top three leaders in the precision instrument industry -- Canon Inc., Fuji Photo Film Co. and Ricoh Co. (Kyodo)