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High school teams from Hyogo Nara win U.N. negotiating awards
Give and take: A Japanese student (center), playing the role of a diplomat, negotiates with other students during a mock U.N. meeting Saturday in New York. | ...
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Groundwork being laid for rise of fuel cell cars
Full-service future: A worker at a gas station pumps hydrogen into a fuel cell car in April in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture. The station, operated by JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp., is the first in the nation to offer both gasoline and hydrogen fuel. | ...
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What the Bloomberg terminal scandal reveals about the media and its money-making ways
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
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Facebook playing catch-up a year after flawed IPO
WASHINGTON - After a market debut marred by technical glitches and a deep dive in the company’s stock price, Facebook has spent the past year focused on its biggest weaknesses: how to make money and keep its more than 1 billion users tethered to the social network. The results have been mixed. The company’s stock price has recovered some of its worst losses, and Facebook has ...
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Dogs give comfort — and controversy — in court
They were the first: Kelly Dempsey sits with her twin daughters Jordan (left) and Erin Barker, 17, and their pet dog Alou at their home in Bothell, Washington, on April 28. A court dog helped the girls during a molestation trial against their father. | ...
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Rice planted in former no-go zone
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
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Syria accused of ‘disappearing’ thousands
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
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Sri Lanka sexes up Ceylon tea’s image
KANDANA, SRI LANKA - A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon’s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid to radically change perceptions of the brew, which manufacturers say can sell for less than water in some markets. ...
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The rifleman behind assault weapons’ rise
WASHINGTON - Rene Carlos Vos, an arms dealer in Alexandria, Virginia, began hanging around the Washington headquarters of the National Rifle Association in the mid-1980s. The NRA’s staff were intrigued to see the garrulous, back-slapping Vos in the group’s seventh-floor suite, home to its lobbying operation and the chief congressional lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre. Vos and LaPierre ...
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Support for Abe Cabinet slides to 70.9 poll
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
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Yokohama captures first-ever bj-league title
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
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Bradley survives miscues keeps lead
IRVING, TEXAS - Keegan Bradley overcame two early bogeys — and a dropped shot on the 18th for the third-straight day — to maintain his lead at the Byron Nelson Championship with 2-under 68 in the third round Saturday. Bradley had a 13-under 197 total for a one-stroke lead over Bae Sang Moon (66) and two-shot advantage over Tom Gillis (67). Ryo Ishikawa carded a 2-under-par 68 and ...
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Tigers outlast Lions in interleague slugfest
TOKOROZAWA, SAITAMA PREF. - The Hanshin Tigers beat the Seibu Lions 10-5 on Sunday in a battle of pitching aces that saw precious little quality from the mound. Tigers ace Atsushi Nomi (4-2) allowed a season-high five runs in five innings, but that was enough to win his third straight start once his teammates were done with Lions ace Hideaki Wakui. ';All the credit goes to the position ...
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Cano homers twice as Yanks beat Jays again
Hit it a long way: Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano hits a two-run home run against the Blue Jays on Saturday in New York. The Yankees won 7-2. | ...
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Jamaicans sweep Diamond League sprint titles Jeter pulls up injured
Down the stretch: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (right) leads as Carmelita Jeter grabs her thigh during the women's 100-meter race at the Diamond League competition in Shanghai. | ...
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Triple Crown drought continues as Oxbow upsets Orb
BALTIMORE - A pair of not so over-the-hill Hall of Famers pulled off a huge upset in the Preakness and ended any hopes of a Triple Crown attempt at the Belmont Stakes. Thanks to Oxbow’s wire-to-wire win Saturday over Kentucky Derby winner Orb, trainer D. Wayne Lukas and jockey Gary Stevens have themselves another classic to add to their stellar resumes. ';I get paid to spoil ...
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Pacers knock out Knicks in six
On to the next one: The Pacers' David West (right) vies for a loose ball against Knicks guard Raymond Felton during Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Saturday in Indianapolis. The Pacers won 106-99 to win the series 4-2. | ...
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Red Wings dominate to even playoff series
CHICAGO - In case they weren’t aware already, the Chicago Blackhawks now know they’re going to have to earn it if they want to get past Detroit. The Red Wings hammered home that message on Saturday. Damien Brunner and Brendan Smith scored in the second period and Detroit beat the Blackhawks 4-1 in Game 2 to even their Western Conference semifinal series. It was a strong response ...
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Federer Nadal win to set up Italian Open final showdown
Survival of the fittest: Roger Federer waves to the crowd after his 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 win over Benoit Paire in the Italian Open semifinals on Saturday in Rome. | ...
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Captain Kabaya picks up MVP award
Drive and dedication: Yokohama's Masayuki Kabaya moves the ball during the B-Corsairs' 101-90 win over the Rizing Fukuoka in the bj-league championship game at Ariake Colosseum on Sunday. | YOSHIAKI ...
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Tsuruga reactor’s active fault
The identification of a geological fracture zone beneath a Tsuruga nuclear plant reactor as an active fault may force the decommissioning of the reactor in Fukui ...
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Nissan Expands in Japan’s Minicar Market With First Joint Model
Japan next month amid increasing demand from the nation's consumers for smaller and cheaper vehicles. The automaker, based in Yokohama, Japan, began production of the minicar at Mitsubishi's Mizushima plant in Okayama prefecture today. The model will be sold as the Nissan DAYZ and Mitsubishi eK Wagon in June, according to the companies. Nissan, which previously sold rebadged ...
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Arrest highlights U.S. Russian spies’ rich history
WASHINGTON - The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes isn’t enough to avoid being caught. The most recent skirmish involves Russian security services ambushing a 29-year-old diplomat who they say ...
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‘All issues on table’ in China-India talks
NEW DELHI - India says all issues will be ';on the table,'; including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the South Asian giant, which started Sunday. At the same time, New Delhi thinks ';very highly'; of Li’s decision to make India his first overseas stop since taking charge as premier, Indian ...
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Product names show language creativity at work
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, ???? (Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity. The four characters translate loosely as ';early root, early sprouting';; ...
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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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