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Imports of Floor Coverings in Japan increased to 4738.27 JPY Million in March from 2589.07 JPY Million in February of 2020. Imports of Floor Coverings in Japan averaged 4578.96 JPY Million from 1988 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 12910.38 JPY Million in April of 1990 and a record low of 2036.94 JPY Million in March of 1988. This page includes a chart with historical data for Japan Imports of Floor Coverings.

Senior software engineer says he quit after firings over coronavirus safety protests

Exemption for digital titles comes after publishers request further financial aid to deal with pandemic

Disputes backlog in ‘under-resourced’ lower court reached 27,280 last quarter

Last week Boris Johnson lead the conservative party to its biggest victory in over 30 years on a promise to “get Brexit done”. What should the UK expect from its new government and how has business reacted to the election? George Parker and Adam Samson talk to Siona Jenkins about what the next five years could bring.

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Business cannot expect emergency cash without sensible conditions

Activists wary after finance ministry names ‘core’ stocks covered by law on foreign investment

New York company wins bidding against Kerry for nutrition and biosciences unit

Lofty ideas about open economies will have to be sold on directly improving voters’ lives

Apple has brought its hardware microphone disconnect security feature to its latest iPads. The microphone disconnect security feature aims to make it far more difficult for hackers to use malware or a malicious app to eavesdrop on a device’s surroundings. The feature was first introduced to Macs by way of Apple’s T2 security chip last […]

As many Amazon workers called out sick for a May Day Strike, Tim Bray was spending his final day at the company. The VP and distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services announced today that May 1 was his final day with the retail giant, citing Amazon’s firings of vocally critical employees. Likely most notable for […]

A group of nine Senators led by Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren penned an open letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos this week, seeking more information about recent employee firings. The statement cites the terminations of four employees who were vocally critical of the company’s policies pertaining to both COVID-19 and climate change. Cosigned by Bernie […]

YouTube is giving advertisers a few more tools to reach consumers and measure ad effectiveness on TVs. These tools already exist for YouTube on other platforms, but now the Google -owned video service is bringing them to connected televisions. In a blog post, it says this is in response to how YouTube viewership has grown […]

The taciturn lawyer’s corruption-busting career has also paved a path to power

In the early 2000s, VMware introduced the world to virtual servers that allowed IT to make more efficient use of idle server capacity. Today, Run:AI is introducing that same concept to GPUs running containerized machine learning projects on Kubernetes. This should enable data science teams to have access to more resources than they would normally […]

YouTube is giving advertisers a few more tools to reach consumers and measure ad effectiveness on TVs. These tools already exist for YouTube on other platforms, but now the Google -owned video service is bringing them to connected televisions. In a blog post, it says this is in response to how YouTube viewership has grown […]

PwC Chief Executive Luke Sayers today announced the members of an external advisory board charged with moving the firm towards greater diversity and inclusion among its people.

At its Think Digital conference, IBM and Red Hat today announced a number of new services that all center around 5G edge and AI. The fact that the company is focusing on these two areas doesn’t come as a surprise, given that both edge and AI are two of the fastest-growing businesses in enterprise computing. […]

The Born to Run singer, in his run for the Emmy, faces competition from three other Netflix projects as well as CBS's Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool.

Before heading out to the gala event, Philipps had celebrated the 20th anniversary of the premiere on NBC of Freaks And Geeks in an Instagram post.

West and his Sunday Service Choir launched into his single All Day, as he told the audience: 'I asked [Kobe] what he thought about this song, and his only response was "theme music."'

Following the disappointment of his Paso Doble the previous week and his subsequent savaging by the nasty, mean judges, his Charleston brought the house down.

Nicki Minaj brought her hunky fiance, manslaughter convict Kenneth Petty, to a Beverly Hills party for her Fendi collaboration on Tuesday.

Ryan Lochte, 32, enjoyed a night out with pregnant fiancee Kayla Rae Reed, 25, as the couple get in as much alone time together before their baby arrives in June.

The ceremony came about 10 months after they first got married in an understated civil ceremony at a Gainseville, Florida courthouse.

Ryan Lochte and Kayla Rae Reid are husband and wife again and there are new photos from the lavish outdoor ceremony in Palm Springs, California.

Nicola Sturgeon today suggested people in Scotland could soon be allowed to meet a small 'bubble' of friends or family outside of their households under plans to ease the coronavirus lockdown.

She became a household name after starring on the hit MTV reality series. And eight years later, Heidi Montag hit the carpet for the MTV VMAs with her husband Spencer Pratt and their son.

Several cast members of The Hills are back together again. Heidi Montag posted video footage to her Insta Stories on Monday of herself enjoying a backyard party with some of her old co-stars.

Jeffrey Epstein's 20-something companion, Julia Stepanova, spent months working for public relations powerhouse Peggy Siegal, 72 , as an intern.

The unprecedented move puts key summer events such as the Glastonbury Festival, Chelsea Flower Show, Wimbledon tennis championships, the Grand National and Royal Ascot under threat.

Gregor Townsend has wrapped a number of his key men up in cotton wool after leaving them out of Scotland's World Cup send-off with Georgia at Murrayfield on Friday night.

Ed Sheeran, Pink, Elton John and Bruce Springsteen are tipped to perform at a Sound Relief concert in aid of Australian bushfire victims.

The pop superstar, 29, an avid follower of his local team Ipswich Town, is planning to fill his sprawling Suffolk estate with the patter of tiny feet - ten, to be precise.

Emma Watson celebrated her achievements and thanked her fans as she turned 30 on Wednesday.

The Kentucky senator said The Donald's lust for power makes him like the creepy Tolkein character who craves the 'precious' ring. Trump is leading national polls while Paul's numbers are in single digits.

Kacey Musgraves paid homage to her hometown when she transformed into a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader for her Halloween costume over the weekend.

The first Penny Dreadful series was a supernatural horror on Showtime that aired from 2014 to 2016, but this new show is actually not connected to it at all.

The 30-year-old singer beamed while walking the red carpet with his five-year-old daughter Royalty on Sunday at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

That's one spoiled bunny rabbit! The actress's daughter took her grey and white ball of fluff with her when they ran errands at the pet store in Los Angeles on a sunny Sunday.

The  44-year-old actress looked every bit the proud mother as she was joined by nearly all of her children at the Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil premiere in Los Angeles on Monday night.

Angelina Jolie joined her own children and her 12-year-old The Eternals co-star to a beach outing on the Canary Islands this weekend.

Dressed in a semi-sheer beaded frock, the former Home and Away star, 36, cuddled up to the Hollywood agent, 54, inside a lavish venue

Like the designer handbag and stiletto heels, gold hoop earrings have become an  essential for stars like Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Jenner and Olivia Culpo. FEMAIL rounds up styles to get the look.

Yo Gotti was just one celeb in attendance as West and his Sunday Service Choir performed some of his own hits, including Jesus Walks and a gospel version of Can't Tell Me Nothing.

Terence Crawford, Errol Spence Jnr, Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman and even Mikey Garcia - Manny Pacquiao's options at welterweight read like a who's who of American fighting talent.

Floyd Mayweather and Deontay Wilder were among a number of stars in Texas on Saturday night as Errol Spence Jr dominated Mikey Garcia in their blockbuster welterweight showdown.

Alex Machavo, of Medford, Oregon, was attacked by the injured animal near Shady Cove on Thursday. According to Andrea Carlson, a local sheriff's spokeswoman, the hunter and his wounded target rolled down a 50-ft embankment with the bear biting 22-year-old Machavo all the way down.

Konta has not played since losing in the US Open quarter-finals in early September - it is a disappointing end to a brilliant year, who began the year ranked 39 and is currently sitting 11th.