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Japan must continue efforts to deactivate Fukushima nuclear plant - UN agency
IAEA's Director of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology Juan Carlos Lentijo (right), speaks with Shift Superintendent Ikuo Izawain at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Photo: IAEA/Greg ...
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The Prime Minister of Japan Wants Everyone to Know Hes Not Afraid of Ghosts
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet on Friday formally denied months-long rumours that the premier had not moved into his official residence over fears the mansion is haunted. The conservative leader took office in December but has yet to move into the 11-room brick home in central Tokyo, the longest holdout among any of his predecessors, according to local media. Abe’s ...
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Video South Korean comfort women want apology from Japan
Former so-called 'comfort women' from South Korea cancel their meeting with Japan's Mayor of Osaka after he said forcing women into wartime military brothels was "necessary". Lily Grimes ...
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Does Japanese market volatility signal the end of Abenomics
Does Thursday’s temporary 7.3 percent plunge in Japanese stocks spell the end to Abenomics? Unlikely. Since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was swept to power in December on a promise to defeat deflation and revive the world’s third-largest ...
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Yen trade volatile in Asia along with Japan market
TOKYO--Yen trading was volatile in Asia on Friday in tandem with wild swings on the Tokyo stock market, but some analysts said the Japanese currency's weakening trend was likely to ...
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WWII sex slaves from S. Korea wont meet with Japanese politician
Two former South Korean "comfort women" Friday called off a meeting with the mayor of Osaka, Japan, who says the wartime use of women for sex was necessary. Kim Bok Dong, 87, and Kil Won Ok, 85, who are speaking in Japan about their experiences as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, said through a representative they decided to cancel their meeting with Toru ...
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Osaka mayor under fire from international community
Osaka mayor under fire from international community . MAY 25, 2013 00:47. . Toru Hashimoto, mayor of Osaka and co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, has come under mounting criticism from the international community or his absurd remarks about ...
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After years of cajoling Japan inks global custody pact
child custody situations in which parents from the United States are forced to return home without the children that the other parent took to another country without permission or legal authority to do so. That has long been a common situation where Japan is concerned, with many Japanese mothers summarily taking children back to their home country and thereafter resisting all attempts of the ...
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Rugby Fickle nature of sport drove me back to Japanese club -Ellison
After being out injured for six months, Tamati Ellison admits the fickle nature of rugby was one of the main reasons he opted to head back to Japan. Ellison, 30, will join the Ricoh company side in Japan at the end of the Super 15, despite having played for the All Blacks last year and being seen as a test certainty this season. The midfield back said he enjoyed the Dunedin ...
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Landmark Case In U.S. Civil Court On Rape By U.S. Military In Japan Eleven Years Ago
Catherine Fisher with a picture of her attacker. Picture: Gran Ole In a landmark case, on September 6, 2012, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Circuit Court Judge gave standing to an Australian woman to collect a Japanese civil judgment against a former US Navy sailor for raping her in Japan 11 years ago. A civil judgment by a Tokyo court in 2004 ordered sailor Bloke T. Deans to pay 3 million yen in ...
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All-Japan stint for karter Cabrera
PRODIGIOUS karter Gabe Tayao-Cabrera competes today and tomorrow in the All-Japan Junior Championships at Suzuka International Circuit in Suzuka City, Mie prefecture. Cabrera, fresh off his victories in the Formula 125 Open Junior, KF2-KF3 and the Yamaha Cup Novice races of the recent Asian Karting Open at Carmona Racetrack in Cavite, will race at Suzuka as the lone Filipino recruit of ...
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Japans J-League still blazing trails at 20
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) - Japan's J-League was a trailblazer for Asian football when it debuted in 1993 and now, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary, it is still pointing the way forwards for the region.Gone are the days when J-League clubs spent lavishly to recruit the likes of Gary Lineker, Zico and Pierre Littbarski, who lit up the early years of Japan's first professional league.With ...
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McDonald’s Mega Potato Fries To Clog Arteries In Japan
Kotaku ) that McDonald’s is now offering its largest calorie item in the history of the chain with the Mega Potato. It holds the equivalent of two large fries, but at almost half the price. Unfortunately for you McDonald’s french fry fans, the Mega Potato is only available in Japan. You could hop on a plane to grab some, but you have to be fast. The Mega Potato will only be on ...
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Cannes Sony Pictures Classics Acquires The Lunchbox for North America
, a mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together by leaving notes in a lunchbox, but their fantasy gradually threatens to overwhelm ...
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WTO to examine Japan-China steel duties dispute
World Trade Organization said Friday its dispute settlement board had agreed to a request from Japan to create a panel to examine its dispute with China over steel duties. Japan had requested for a panel to evaluate its complaint against China for imposing duties on steel tube imports, which Beijing claims were being sold at prices below market levels. Japan charged that the duties violated ...
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Japan told to lean on Myanmar
The Japanese government needs to ensure it's getting a return on its investments in Myanmar by making human rights a priority, Human Rights Watch said. Japanese Prime ...
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Video Market View Is the Bank of Japans message to the markets getting lost
The Globe and Mail's Jacqueline Nelson takes a closer look at recent volatility in Asia and the Bank of Japan's efforts to assure investors over rising bond ...
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Japanese World Championship Team Impresses on Day One of Japan Open
KANAGAWA, Japan, May 24. THE first day of the Japan open long course competition saw members of the country's world championship swim team impress in their first races since being added to the world team roster.With a world-leading 58.84 to her credit from the world championship trials in April, Aya Terakawa cruised to the win in the women's 100 back today with a 59.50. Sayaka Akase ...
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Asian Stocks End Mixed Nikkei Rises After Turbulent Trading
Asian stocks traded mixed on Friday, with extreme volatility in Japanese shares keeping investors nervous. Japan's Nikkei index swung over 1,000 points for a second day in a row before ending notably higher on optimism over earnings growth and ...
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Japanese judo rocked again by sexual harrassment scandal
May 24 - The All Japan Judo Federation (AJJF) is facing another scandal with director Jiro Fukuda admitting to sexually harassing an unnamed female judoka, just months after its funding was cut by the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) when coaches were found to be physically abusing female judokas. The 76-year-old, who has offered his resignation, admitted to forcibly hugging and attempting to ...
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CORRECTED-Derivatives trade booms in wake of Japan stock slide
Fri May 24, 2013 11:27am EDT (CORRECTS stimulus amount in graf 3) By Helen Bartholomew LONDON, May 24 (IFR) - Investors betting on a continuation of Japan's six-month runaway bull market suffered their biggest scare yet on Thursday as the Nikkei 225 lost more than 7% - its largest one-day loss in more than two years. But a corresponding spike in the Nikkei Volatility Index, from 27 to 48, ...
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Ex-boyfriend intrudes stabs woman
YOKOHAMA - A 21-year-old woman was stabbed by her ex-boyfriend Friday at her apartment in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, where she lives with her current boyfriend, police said. The 25-year-old boyfriend called police around 9:20 a.m. saying, ';My girlfriend has been stabbed by a guy with a knife.'; The man told police that his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend came to their residence, ...
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Africa’s Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda’s tragic story
Paul Kagame is angrier than I’ve ever seen him. Rwanda’s president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he’s crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, the rebel leader whose army put a stop to the 1994 genocide of 800,0000 Tutsis. But now even friends are ...
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Panel sets telecommuting target
A government panel set out goals Friday to up telecommuting. The number of companies with telecommuting systems designed for child-care and other employees is expected to triple by 2020 from some 4,000 in fiscal 2012, which ended in March, according to the information technology promotion strategy adopted by the panel. The panel, known as the IT Strategic Headquarters, also proposed that the ...
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Care urged for split families when Japan joins Hague pact
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
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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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