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Confederations Cup Zaccheroni aims for Japan victory over Italy - video
Japan's Italian head coach Alberto Zaccheroni says he is looking to defeat his home country when Japan face Italy in the Confederations Cup on Wednesday. Japan know they will be returning to Brazil after qualifying for next year's World Cup and they want to establish a winning habit in the South American ...
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Japan Agrees Nuclear Power Plant Safety Rules
Japan's nuclear watchdog has approved new safety requirements for atomic power plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster. The new measures, approved by the Nuclear Regulation Authority, will take effect on July 8 when operators will be able to apply for inspections. If plants pass the inspections - a process expected to take several ...
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Japan to Overhaul Nuclear Safety Guidelines
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Strontium in groundwater at No. 1 soars
The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power ...
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North vows to kill authors of report that Kim dished out Hitler ‘guidebook’
North Korea has angrily denied a report that its ruler used Adolf Hitler’s memoir as a leadership guide, and threatened to kill its authors. The article by New Focus International, an online news portal run by North Korean defectors, said Kim Jong Un had given copies of ';Mein Kampf'; to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership manual. Kim handed out ...
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Turkey’s ‘Standing Man’ spurs new form of protest
The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power ...
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Fuji traffic jam to grow even worse this season
The big picture: A mother and daughter walk on the shore of Lake Kawaguchi at the foot of Mount Fuji in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Sunday. | ...
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U.S. Treasury chief ‘fixes’ unusual signature scribble
Oooooooo la la!: The signatures of U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew from a Sept. 21, 2011, memo posted on the White House website (top) and on the 2013 Financial Stability Oversight Council report. | ...
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Soggy British weather likely to last for years
The best advice for visitors to Britain — pack an umbrella — is more vital than ever. Weather scientists said Tuesday that a country that has been unusually soggy in recent years is not likely to dry out soon, and a warm Atlantic Ocean may be to blame. Meteorologists from around Britain met to discuss why this traditionally temperate country has recently experienced icy winters, ...
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We’re not all male or female New South Wales court rules
The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power ...
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N.Z. emerges as guinea pig for global tech firms
The Japanese general public's interest in the global warming issue has been sagging of late, and few LDP government leaders appear ready to try to prop it ...
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Peer pressure drives applause study
Sheep mentality?: Actor Jackie Chan claps with other Chinese delegates Tuesday at the opening of a film festival in New Delhi. New research shows that individuals feel pressure to join people clapping, even if they don't agree with the sentiment. | ...
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Woman finds calling in aging district
Working woman: Nabi Togo serves meals using vegetables donated by neighbors and fish purchased nearby at a restaurant she operates in a refurbished home in Fukutsu, Fukuoka Prefecture, in April. | ...
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Zimbabwe’s bovine bank a cash cow
William Mukurazita’s deposit at the bank has four legs and moos. Zimbabwe’s first ';cattle bank'; has just opened its books in a unique kind of banking where owners bring in their animals as collateral against cash loans. For many rural poor in the southern African country once wracked by world-record inflation, it’s the first bank account they’ve ever had. ...
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Loeb Sony drive based on faith in Abe
Corporate activist Daniel Loeb took his team to Japan in April 2012 to determine if the world’s third-largest economy was ready for investment. The Bank of Japan had set a new 1 percent inflation goal, an encouraging step in a country where growth had stagnated for two decades. Yet Loeb wasn’t convinced until October, when polls signaled that the next prime minister would be Shinzo ...
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Online drugstore chief cheers Abe on in deregulation fight
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
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Monsoon floods kill over 120 in India
Military helicopters carried out emergency food drops Wednesday for thousands of people stranded by flash flooding from early monsoon rains that have killed at least 120 in northern India, officials said. The states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have witnessed torrential rain at least three times as heavy as usual since last week, when the annual monsoon broke a fortnight ahead of ...
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Pitch to G-8 colleagues leaves Abe in a bind
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, by pitching his economic policies to his fellow leaders at the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland, has put himself in a bind with the need to show a blueprint for achieving both growth and fiscal rehabilitation. The just-completed summit at the Lough Erne golf resort near Enniskillen was, first and foremost, the place for Abe to explain to his G-8 colleagues ...
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Darvish’s winless run hits six after loss to A’s
Yu Darvish is like the rest of the Texas starters — still without a victory in June. For the ace from Japan, the winless streak goes back a little further than that. Brandon Moss and John Jaso homered and the AL West-leading Oakland Athletics beat the Rangers 6-2 on Tuesday night, becoming the first team to beat Darvish four times. ';They just hit off very good pitches,'; ...
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Venus Williams to miss Wimbledon for first time
After 16 consecutive years of always showing up at Wimbledon, winning five titles along the way, Venus Williams pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament Tuesday, citing a lower back injury. Williams, who turned 33 on Monday, had never missed Wimbledon since making her debut there in 1997. She won the singles trophy — it happens to be called the Venus Rosewater Dish — in ...
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Asian trio punch World Cup tickets
Having everything to play for on Tuesday, Australia, Iran and South Korea all secured berths at the 2014 World Cup on a dramatic final day of Asian qualifying. They join Japan, which was the first nation to qualify. Australia beat Iraq 1-0, waiting until the 83rd minute before Josh Kennedy headed home the winner that secured second spot in Group B. Iran booked its place with a disciplined ...
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Sprinter Campbell-Brown suspended pending probe
Veronica Campbell-Brown’s agent insists one of the cornerstones of Jamaica’s wide-ranging sprint success ';is not a cheat,'; even though the test results disagree. While her case is being decided, the three-time Olympic gold medalist will sit out and her country will try to make sense of one of its longest-held fears: a high-profile track star getting busted for doping. ...
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Japan looking for Italian tonic after poor display against Brazil
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
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Are we all blinded by our sense of beauty
Sophie Calle is an enigma. She is an artist, writer, photographer and filmmaker yet doesn’t work exclusively in any of these areas. She has become famous for her work in photography but her objects and later films have drawn equal attention — work that carries with it the curiosity of a detective who chases ghosts. Invariably, she is known to makes things that are as much about her ...
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Get worldly with duo Charan Po Rantan
The two sisters of Charan Po Rantan say they’re content in their own world. On latest album, ';Futae no Rasen'; (';Double Spiral';), the duo dwells on remaining inside this world — a place soundtracked by an accordion. ';I didn’t play with friends (growing up) and was always in the closet with my accordion,'; 24-year-old Koharu Matsunaga tells The ...
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Japan focuses on next big export
Smart grids are the way of the future, according to a Japanese consortium of seven companies that want to invest in the cities of the future and pave the way for the next big export to come out of Japan.
Japan is already one of the leading high-tech industries of the world, producing gadgets and appliances that are sold globally, from cars and microwaves to robots for use in surgery, space and mines. The country is a major manufacturing hub, there are Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba and Nintendo appliances in homes across the globe and many of the world’s most famous export brands have their headquarters in Japan or were founded in Japan. Read more
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