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        <title><![CDATA[Alice French - Stocks Reporter]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nintendo Under Pressure to Raise Switch 2 Prices to Protect Margins]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[With shares on their worst streak in a decade, investors signal displeasure]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Takashi Mochizuki]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 11:03:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Toto Shares Surge on Plans to Boost Chip Parts Business]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 02:26:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Canon Shares Drop by Most in a Year After Memory Costs Bite]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Moves to Block Korean Buyout Deal With Rare Use of Security Law]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:50:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tokyo’s King of ‘Death Spiral’ Financing Profits From a Wave of Demand]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[How Michael Lerch became the financier of choice for Japan’s struggling small-caps.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan’s Nikkei Closes at Record High, Wiping Out Iran War Losses]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Aya Wagatsuma]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:13:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Toto Halts Bathroom Orders After Iran War Upends Supply Chain]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:27:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Asia’s Relief Rally Hinges on Hormuz and Oil, Strategists Say]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice French]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:19:08 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>TOPSHOT - People queue to refuel at a fuel station in Ahmedabad on March 23, 2026 following import disruptions caused by the Middle East war. Tehran&apos;s forces have closed off the waterway, through which a fifth of the world&apos;s oil and liquefied natural gas passes in peacetime, with deadly hits reported on vessels since the war began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28. (Photo by Shammi MEHRA / AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan’s Nikkei Surges as US-Iran Ceasefire Boosts Risk Appetite]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kanoko Matsuyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tokyo Steel Shares Soar as Oasis Stake Sparks Restructuring Hope]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:03:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foreign Selling of Japan Stocks Hits 18-Month High on Iran Risk]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:24:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Shares Climb Most in a Year on Iran War-End Hopes, Tankan]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice French]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:58:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Activist Palliser Targets MSG Maker Ajinomoto in AI Hunt]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:12:40 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Monosodium glutamate (MSG) products of the Ajinomoto food company are displayed at a supermarket in Tokyo on January 20, 2020. - Umami-bomb or toxic allergen? There are perhaps few condiments as controversial as MSG, but most scientists say it&apos;s safe, and now Japanese firm Ajinomoto is trying to give it a reputation overhaul. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP) / TO GO WITH food-drink-science-research-MSG-Japan-Ajinomoto,FOCUS by Sara Hussein (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Stocks Fall as Oil Risk Heightens on Escalating Iran War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:12:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Stocks Rebound as Trump Delays Iran Strikes; Insurers Gain]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:08:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan’s Topix Enters Correction as Hormuz Fears Amplify Caution]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice French]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:07:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foreign Investors Flee Japanese Stocks as Oil Risk Dims Outlook]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:52:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shortage of Naphtha Threatens Supply Chain Chaos in Japan]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice French]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A naphtha cracker plant in Taiwan in 2008.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nintendo Shares Gain $14 Billion With Smash Hit ‘Pokopia’]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice French]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:08:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nintendo Shares Soar 10% as Surprise Hit Pokémon Game Lifts Mood]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice French]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:20:43 GMT</pubDate>
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