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By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
TOKYO, Japan – I’ve always found Japanese press conferences to be infuriatingly polite.
And that’s initially how it seemed Thursday as we were ushered into a large conference hall at Toyota’s Tokyo headquarters for a presser called to unveil the company’s much improved quarterly results.
It was packed, and soon highjacked [...]

By Peter Jeary, NBC News
A celebrated British soccer coach once claimed some people thought the game was a matter of life and death: “Listen,” he said, “it’s more important than that.” In some ways, that sums up how I feel about my special relationship with chocolate, and Cadbury’s chocolate in particular.
Cadbury has been one of the [...]

By NBC News’ Ed Flanagan
A favorite myth that pops up around this time each year is that the Super Bowl has a global audience of 1 billion people.  
But if the National Football League has its way, Chinese football fans could turn that fiction into fact someday.
In a country where American sports imports have [...]