osaka hopes to highlight its technology expertise in a bid to operate the water system. >> translator: controls in the plant are inadequate. as a result, there's a high concentration of microbes. >> reporter: a south korean firm is giving the japanese a run for their money. the resources corporation or k water, is engaged in water projects across asia. this man directs the overseas development and planning. he has overseen large-scale projects in countries including china and vietnam. his department also plans to bid on the yangon project. >> translator: we'll work out a proposal to highlight the differences between us and the japanese in terms of construction and maintenance costs. then we can talk with the city government as soon as possible. >> reporter: last november k-water reached an agreement with the city of yangon to conduct a feasibility study for the project. one of k-water's strengths is that it possesses all of the necessary know-how in-house. on the other hand, japanese firms often have to go to entities outside of the company for the expertise in areas such as plant con

one based in north eastern japan and now expanding into the osaka area. with so many workers now jobless the timing is perfect. one of the applicants is a man in his 50s who was at he made it to the final round. >> translator: i was nervous. i worked at my last company for many years. this was my first job interview in a long time. i hope i can land a job here. >> reporter: japanese manufacturers have focused on developing high end products with high price tags. this business strategy is no longer viable in the face of global competition that undercuts their prices. this man was offered early retirement from his job at panasonic before retirement age. >> translator: it starts with a chat about how business is bad and we're making no profit. i felt there was no work for me, so i left. >> reporter: some of his colleagues became salesman but he wanted to continue as an engineer so he had to leave panasonic. >> translator: it's been a worry for me. i want to keep on working as an engineer until i reach mandatory retirement age. >> reporter: the company he wan

the line connects tokyo and osaka. they make at least 150 return journeys every day. central japan railway engineers will restore sections totaling 240 kilometers, that's nearly half of the route. workers will add steel plates to elevate tracks or tunnels to reinforce plates. company officials say the renovations will add decades to the life span of the infrastructure. they say the repair work won't affect services. >>> many japanese companies are making money because of rising stock prices. analysts at a securities brokerage say the unrealized gains for those companies have more than doubled over the past six months. the nikkei 225 stock index has climbed over 40% since mid-november. prime minister abe's plans to revitalize the economy sent the yen tumbling and stock prices surging. analysts at securities estimate the unrealized gains on shares held by more than 1800 listed japanese firms. they say those gains came to $118 billion over six months. that's an increase of 160%. and analysts who helped put the report together say managers at companies need to implement a

she receives flowers and gifts at a nursing home in osaka. she was born back in 1898 to a family of merchants. two of her three children are still alive in their 90's, and she has six great-grandchildren. she says she put her longevity down to a good diet and plenty of sleep. i bet a lot of see she was involved. >> i agree with that. >> one of my favorite foods. i could eat sushi every day. >> thank you very much for being with us. thank you for your company. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

what will be left is some warmer air and we'll see tokyo at 20, osaka at 17 and will be alkeido.wy herer we make our way to india, in terms of clouds and rain, it won't be too much of a problem. we'll see the temperatures across the central part of the subcontinent fairly warm at 36 degrees and may slightly start to go up as we make our way towards tuesday. new delhi, warm down here at 32 but towards columbo it will be dry and sunny and we expect 32 degrees for you as well. in doha the wind will switch around and means for us our temperatures will come down as well, too. on monday, a 31-degree day for us. as we go to tuesday it will come down to 29. abu dhabi, you'll see 31. and quickly over here towards parts of turkey, very heavy know and rain will be a problem. we see a rds akra cool 9 degrees. >> welcome back. a quick reminder of our top stories on al jazeera. diplomats around the world have been meeting at the u.n. to try to come up with the first ever global arms trade treaty. the first round of talks failed when the u.s. and other countries asked for more time to review. australi

know where something was, you have a computer program to you could call them, everybody seemed in osaka where everything was. in fact, that wasn't actually the case at all and so that was a very difficult part of that job. and, finally, one of the focuses that i put for the team was to be able to find things quicker but if you want to know where all of one type of material was stored, or where it was kept, how much was recovered, we had a database that at all the debris loaded into it. and so we eventually morphed to a system where we used keywords so that you could do searches and find a certain class of debris, or find a location to everything that was recovered from a specific location in the vehicle. that turned out to be extremely important for the crew survival investigation and i was glad that we did that. for the preservation team, that was a little bit of a different experience. obvious at the time deeply invested in the debris, and very committed to preserving it. but what was really interesting was the discussion about whether we should bury it in a whole, like was done for c

it connects tokyo and osaka. they make at least 150 return journeys every day. central japan railway engineers will restore sections totaling 240 kilometers. that's nearly half the route. workers will add steel plate to elevate the tracks and tunnels. they will reenforce or replace bridge frames. company officials say the renovations will add decades to the life-span of the infrastructure. they say the repair work won't affect services. the people who run the tokyo stock exchange want to capitalize on the recent rise in stock prices in japan and attract more foreign investment. they're going to develop a speedier trading system. it will reduce the time it takes to process orders to one ten thousandth of a second. they're planning to implement the new system by the middle of 2015. it's trying to keep up with major stock exchanges throughout the world. >>> chinese business regulators have put the brakes on a japanese voints venture again. managers at sony and their partners at the optical firm olympus want to make medical equipment together. they've had to put off

police also plan to rearrest him for posting a message on an osaka city website threatening to carry out an indiscriminate murder. he said police arrested him by mistake. >>> two sailors are getting acquainted with life on jail. they were on trial for injuring and raping a japanese woman on the island of okinawa. both pled guilty. police arrested christopher browning and petty officer third class sky ler dozierwalker last october. they suspected the men had raped a woman in a parking lot. the sailors went on trial in the city of naha. they gave browning 7 years and dozierwalker 9 years. their attorneys said they deeply regretted what they did. the prosecution said the sailors had treated the woman inhumanely. he said it was impossible to imagine her pain and said they acted more viciously than defendants in any similar case. >>> japan's crowded tablet market will be getting more crowded soon. microsoft has announced that it will start sending its original new tablet, surface, in japan beginning march 19. microsoft has been marketing mainly software and surface is drawing attention as