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- Google has established an RD base in Tokyo, the company's third base outside the US and an addition to those set up in India and Switzerland. The Tokyo Centre is expected to collaborate with Google's US-based RD staff in developing technologies and services for the Japanese market, aside from working with leading Japanese telecommunications companies and electronics makers. Until the setting of the Tokyo Centre, all the technologies and services offered in Japan by Google were Japanese-language versions of what Google was mainly offering. The local RD activities will concentrate on technologies that can improve the precision of Japanese-language searcher....