News Headlines - 11 November 2015

▽Test flight triumph for Mitsubishi regional jet - FT.com

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation’s MRJ90, with its raked, train-like nose and pronounced winglets, took off from Nagoya airport shortly after 9:30am. Its safe landing 90 minutes later launched an ambitious plan to take on Embraer and Bombardier in the market for small passenger jets.

▽Sony's Betamax, long thought dead, officially gets last nail in its coffin - CNET

In its announcement Tuesday, Sony said it would no longer produce its cassettes in Japan, the only remaining country where they are available. The company has not produced a Betamax recorder since 2002. Sony said it has sold more than 18 million units of Betamax devices worldwide since their debut.

▽Japan says UN envoy has retracted remarks that 13% of schoolgirls are involved in paid dating - The Straits Times

"The letter said after further reviews that there was no official and recent data to support the 13-percent figure," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.
In her letter, Ms de Boer-Buquicchio vowed not to use the figure in the future and said the number will not be part of a report to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, Mr Suga said.

▽N. Korean ‘abduction manual’ leaked: Tokyo Shimbun | NK News - North Korea News

Japan’s Tokyo Shimbun newspaper on Wednesday reported their findings on a North Korean internal document written in the late 1990s to educate North Korean agents on how to abduct foreign targets.
According to the newspaper, the 356-page North Korean document was credited to Kim Jong Il Social Foreign Intelligence Studies and was taught in the Kim Jong Il Political-Military University, one of the most secretive North Korean intelligence institutes.

▽BBC Sport - Kazuyoshi Miura: Japan legend Kazu signs new Yokohama deal at 48

Japanese footballer Kazuyoshi Miura has signed a one-year contract extension with Yokohama FC at the age of 48.