*** Japan Times E-mail News Service *** __________ Tuesday, February 15, 2011 ________________ TODAY'S TOP STORIES ========================= [BUSINESS NEWS] Economy sees first quarterly fall in five China officially eclipses Japan as the world's second-biggest economy after Tokyo acknowledges that its streak of five quarters of growth was broken at the end of 2010. [MORE] -> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110215a1.html --- [NATIONAL NEWS] B'z Matsumoto bags pop Grammy Guitarist Takahiro Matsumoto of the popular rock duo B'z wins a Grammy award for best pop instrumental album with American jazz fusion guitarist Larry Carlton. [MORE] -> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110215a1.html --- [NATIONAL NEWS] JCG leak source: Defend Senkakus Beijing should provide solid grounds for its claim to the Senkaku Islands instead being provocative, the former coast guardsman who leaked footage of the JGG's run-in with a Chinese trawler says. 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