*** Japan Times E-mail News Service *** __________ Friday, December 3, 2010 ________________ TODAY'S TOP STORIES ========================= [BUSINESS NEWS] Watchdog OKs Yahoo Japan-Google tieup The planned tieup between Internet search engines Yahoo Japan Corp. and Google Inc. of the United States will have no immediate problem with Japan's antimonopoly law, the Fair Trade Commission concludes. [MORE] -> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20101203n1.html --- [NATIONAL NEWS] Grad gets 18 years for killing professor Lay and professional judges sentence a Chuo University graduate to 18 years in prison for stabbing his professor to death last year on the school's Korakuen campus in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. 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