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Questions the president dodged in his address on U.S. antiterrorism drive
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama set out Thursday to redefine the U.S. fight against global terrorism, but despite calling for a more targeted rather than ';boundless'; theater of global operations, he left out the specifics and timelines for action, by which his success or failure could be measured. Here are some critical questions Obama did not raise or answer in his address at ...
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Hashimoto in unprecedented crisis
OSAKA - The list of those in and out of Japan, but especially in the United States, who scorn and deride Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto for his justification for the wartime ';comfort women'; is growing daily, presenting a unprecedented crisis for the once-popular politician. Hashimoto’s remarks that the sexual slavery ...
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ECB’s Draghi says new European agency ‘imperative’
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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Kuroda vows to avoid rate volatility confident deflation can be beaten
By tightening procedures to receive livelihood assistance, a bill just submitted to the Diet could end up raising the suicide rate and the number of deaths by ...
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Abe adviser called for deadline to resolve abductions during North trip
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s adviser, when visiting North Korea last week, called for setting a ';deadline'; in bilateral talks aimed at resolving the thorny issue of the abductions of Japanese, sources said Friday. The new details shed more light on the meetings between the adviser, Isao Iijima, and senior North Korean officials that took place during his four-day unannounced ...
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Angelina Jolie a brave woman and a role model
Humanitarian mission: Angelina Jolie (left) and Brad Pitt visit refugees in Bosnia on April 5, 2010, to highlight the plight of 117,000 people who have not been able to return to their homes even though the Bosnian war ended 15 years earlier. | ...
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Ex-sex slaves won’t meet Hashimoto
OSAKA - Two former South Korean ';comfort women'; canceled their planned Friday meeting with Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto, saying through a representative that they did not want to become his political pawns. Kim Bok Dong, 87, and Kil Won Ok, 85, are currently traveling around Japan and speaking about their experiences as sex slaves for the ...
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‘Abenomics’ still has long way to go
Economy Despite smooth talk, getting firms to raise pay and boost individual spending tall order for Abe ‘Abenomics’ still has long way to ...
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Science sponsors abetted Miura’s Everest success
Mission accomplished: Yuichiro Miura (left) and his son, Gota, pose for a photo with a flag after reaching the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday. | MIURA DOLPHINES ...
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Driverless cars pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for us
LONDON - Suddenly a robotized, automated economic reality is moving off the science fiction pages and into daily life. The growing use of unmanned battlefield drones is encouraging the growth of pilotless commercial aircraft — the first ever flew in British airspace last month. Google’s driverless car is completing ever more trials ever more successfully: the world’s major car ...
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LeBron Kobe earn All-NBA honors
NEW YORK - LeBron James was a unanimous pick for the All-NBA team and Kobe Bryant earned his record-tying 11th first-team selection. James received all 119 votes for the first team from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the U.S. and Canada. Joining the league’s MVP and Bryant on the first team Thursday were Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, San Antonio center Tim ...
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Indians pound Red Sox in Francona’s return to Fenway
Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday, but amid the celebrations, the ';B-word'; — Bollywood — remains controversial. The French film festival has rolled out the red carpet for Indian cinema this year, with events including a gala dinner and ...
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Griffin striving to be ready for season opener
ASHBURN, VIRGINIA - Robert Griffin III’s rehab started with a ';cry festival.'; Then came a special new passcode for his cellphone and a chance to hash things out with coach Mike Shanahan. There’s also been a Twitter rant about political correctness, some flak about all the wedding gifts he’s received and, most recently, a suggestion from his father that the ...
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Coach K stays on Team USA
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the ';best birthday party ever'; when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
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FILA changes impress IOC’s Rogge
LONDON - Wrestling’s governing body has ';reacted well'; and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its place in the Olympics, IOC President Jacques Rogge said. Rogge said FILA has dealt with the issues that led the IOC executive board in February to remove wrestling from the list of core sports for the 2020 Games. ';I think they had the good ...
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Kitajima claims victory in 100-meter breaststroke at Japan Open
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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Cole not fit for England captaincy
LONDON - He is seen as the type of player who gives footballers a bad name. Someone who typifies all the perceived negatives about the modern-day player. Ashley Cole is the snarling face of the beautiful game, someone who disputes every decision made by a referee or an assistant, someone who seems to thrive on his unpopularity. Greedy, unfaithful, ungrateful with a grudge against the media to ...
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Detroit moves out to 3-1 lead
DETROIT - Jimmy Howard kept Jonathan Toews in his misery, making three saves against the struggling star to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-0 on Thursday night in Game 4 of the second round series to put the NHL’s best team during the regular season on the brink of elimination. When Howard wasn’t using his glove or pads to deny Toews, Detroit’s skaters ...
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Geary’s vision drive keyed Yokohama’s title run
There was something refreshing, interesting and fun about the Yokohama B-Corsairs from the beginning. It wasn’t always the easiest thing to explain in a few short words. Sure, there were the carefully orchestrated parts — the Xs and Os, in-game adjustments — but the bj-league team just seemed to know what it was doing from the get-go. Head coach Reggie Geary walked onto the ...
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Hakuho awaits ozeki rival
Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho and ozeki Kisenosato both powered to their 13th wins on Friday to set up a mouth-watering showdown at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. Unbeaten at 13-0, Hakuho and Kisenosato are the only two wrestlers in title contention and they go toe-to-toe Saturday in a match that will go a long way to deciding the championship. Hakuho is 30-8 in the head-to-heads against ...
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Moriwaki enjoying challenge playing for Urawa brings
Urawa Reds supporters will demand nothing less than three points from this weekend’s J. League clash with Kashiwa Reysol, but after swapping the comfort of hometown team Sanfrecce Hiroshima for the bear pit of Saitama, defender Ryota Moriwaki wouldn’t have it any other way. ...
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Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
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The junkie and his fix
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64th Kyoto Takigi noh performance to be held
The 64th Kyoto Takigi noh performance will take place from 5:30 p.m. on the first weekend of June in Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto. Featured are the plays ';Tamanoi,'; ';Hanjo,'; ';Ochanomizu'; and ';Koi no Omoni'; on June 1, and ';Kamo,'; ';Mitsuyama,'; ';Kubibiki'; and ';Oeyama'; the following day. Advance tickets ...
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English education and English sheepdogs
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to globalize Japan’s workforce and says that Japan must become more competitive in the English language. This has touched off a debate among native English teachers, Japanese who teach English, Japanese speakers who don’t speak English, and English sheepdogs owned by both Japanese and English speakers. On one hand, you have people who ask why Japanese ...
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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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