For the last three weeks, foreigners have been net buyers on the Japanese exchanges, the Tokyo Stock Exchange reported on Thursday.

The New York and Tokyo markets could merge after the Japanese exchange becomes a public company in 2009.

On Japanese exchanges, Honda's shares rose as much as 150 yen, to 2,060 yen, the highest since Aug. 24, 1989.

KVH specializes in operating and developing low latency networks for the financial services industry, and provides low latency connectivity to all major Japanese exchanges.

He has made an investment in a mobile-phone software company in Scotland that has a major partnership with a major handset manufacturer in Japan and, should it ever go public, said he would consider doing a dual listing on a British and Japanese exchange.

He has also made guest star appearances on Big Time Rush as Deke the famous blogger and on The Middle as Takayuki, the Heck family's Japanese foreign exchange student.

The Japanese exchange with Keio Shonan-Fujisawa Junior & Senior High School in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture has been operating for over 10 years.

On most scores the Japanese exchange performed better than our own.

Or maybe he is no more a criminal than the 16-year-old Japanese exchange student who, two Halloweens ago, rang the wrong Louisiana doorbell and took a fatal bullet in the chest.

Japanese exchanges were closed for the Emperor's birthday holiday yesterday.