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News Search archives for Nikkei.com and The Nikkei Weekly are limited to articles published within the past three months due to contractual obligations with content providers.

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• Refining Search
• Errors
• Search Tips
• Boolean Expressions

Refining Search

• Find Keywords In :
  You can search for keywords in articles and headlines, or just the headlines.
• Publication :
  Select from Nikkei News, The Nikkei Weekly, both Nikkei News and The Nikkei Weekly, and The Nikkei Veritas (Premium Option required to view Nikkei Veritas articles)
• Date Range :
  Dates must be entered in yyyy/mm/dd format. If you are looking for an article published on a particular day, enter the same date in both boxes.
• Industry :
  Select the appropriate industry category to search for all articles in that category. This option can be used in conjunction with other search options to further narrow your search.
• News Category :
  This allows you to specify an editorial category for your search. This option can be used in conjunction with the other options to further narrow your search.
• Show in the order of :
  Select the order of results from newest to oldest or oldest to newest.
• Display results with :
  Search results can be viewed as headlines only or as headlines with article previews.
• Results per page :
  This option allows you to select the number of matching results to display per page. If you opt to display the search results with article previews, it is recommended that you keep number of results at 10 or 20 per page.

Errors

If your search produces an error it means there were no results found or the search engine did not understand the query. Please revise the query and try again. You might want to:
- Remove any punctuation marks (see Avoid Punctuation below).
- Try different or more general keywords.
- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.

Search Tips

- Avoid Punctuation
Commas, periods and other punctuation marks (with the exception of double quotes, see below) should generally be avoided. When searching for a figure with a decimal point or comma, please enter the figure as it is (e.g. 2.53%; 72,000). Note that commas are recognized by the search engine as "OR."

- Double Quotes ("")
If you use double quotes around a phrase, the search engine will search for that exact string of text, including upper- and lower-case letters.
For example, you can use the double quotes to search for an exact phrase such as "sports car." This will limit the search to the two or more words entered together in that order only and will eliminate articles on sports only or cars in general. This is helpful for searching exact phrases such as "Hong Kong" or "Prime Minister" which might otherwise result in unreliable search results.
You can also use the double quotes around a word or phrase for case-sensitive search. A search for "apple" will find results on the fruit but not the company, whereas a search for "Apple" will yield results focused on the company. Searching for "aPpLe" will yield no results.

- Wildcard (*)
Wildcards are useful when you are unsure of the spelling of a word, such as a company name. Use an asterisk (*) when there is an unknown character or a string of unknown letters in a word. For example, typing *crest will find articles containing words ending in "crest," such as "Goldcrest," "Suncrest" and "crest."

Boolean Expressions

- AND (or a space)
By default, when inputting several keywords, the search engine will treat spaces as and. For example, Toyota Mitsubishi will find articles that contain both keywords at least once, though the keywords may not appear next to each other as in a search using double quotes.

- OR (or a comma)
Or expands your search by finding articles containing at least one of the specified keywords or phrases. For example, a search for Sony or Nintendo or Sega (or Sony, Nintendo, Sega) will find all articles that refer to at least one of these companies.

- NOT
Not excludes keywords from your search. For example, typing robots not pets will find all articles about robots, but exclude those referring to pet robots.
Note: If you wish to use and, or not, or or as a keyword in your search, place the words in double quotes. For example, when looking for safe but not cheap, you would type "safe but not cheap" in the search box.

- Parentheses ( )
Parentheses are useful for complex searching. For example, a search for hotel (Singapore not "Hong Kong") will find articles that refer to hotels in Singapore, but not those in Hong Kong.

If you still have problems please contact Customer Support.

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