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• Sony recalls nearly 500,000 PCs worldwide Shares in Sony plunged today after the firm was forced to recall hundreds of thousands of Vaio laptops amid reports that some models have caught fire and injured their owners. By Justin McCurry in Tokyo
• Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda resigns Increasingly unpopular 72-year-old steps down after less than year amid deadlock in coalition government
• Japan's navy running out of fuel as oil prices rise Rising oil prices could threaten Japan's military readiness later this year following reports that the country's navy will run out of money for fuel months earlier than expected
• Video: Giant panda birth Tan Tan, a giant panda at Kobe's Oji zoo in Japan, has a new cub. It is the first baby panda in 20 years to be born in Japan as a result of artificial insemination
• Japan: Residents go to courts to evict yakuza Residents of a city in western Japan this week became the first to turn to the courts for help in ridding their neighbourhood of organised crime
• Bank loses face over Brian the sumo fake HSBC has been slammed by Japanese community after dressing up an overweight white man to look like a sumo wrestler. By Elizabeth Day
