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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 Atomic Power saw fiscal 2012 growth despite no power output
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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North offers new nuclear talks
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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More women taking to plane spotting at Centrair
More women have joined the groups of men taking photos of landing and departing aircraft at Central Japan International Airport (Centrair). Given the nickname ';Sorami'; (Sky Beauties), these women — who own high-quality camera equipment typically used by professional photographers — are willing to wait hours just to take an original shot of their favorite aircraft. Out ...
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U.S. checks rules over leak probes
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama instructed Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to review Justice Department guidelines for leak investigations, meet with media organizations and report back to him by mid-July. In a speech to the National Defense University, Obama addressed the uproar over his administration’s numerous leak investigations, saying he is ';troubled'; that ...
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NRA forges new trail in judging reactor risk
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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Secrets deciphered as ancient Maya script meets the modern Internet
WASHINGTON - Researchers began decoding the glyphic language of the ancient Maya long ago, but the Internet is helping them finish the job and write the history of the enigmatic Mesoamerican civilization. For centuries, scholars understood little about Maya script beyond its elegant astronomical calculations and calendar. The Maya dominated much of Central America and southern Mexico for 1,000 ...
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American killed in 2011 drone strike was jailed by Pakistan
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN - An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in a drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal region, making him the fourth American citizen killed by ...
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Obama’s Gitmo plan still faces huge hurdles
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s renewed effort to close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay faces the same steep political climb as in his first term: To make Thursday’s announcement work, Congress would have to accept a plan to move some detainees from Cuba to the United States. Obama did signal in his speech that he would restart the process of sending home or ...
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Days of Swedish riots raise issues over inequality
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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Indian heat wave sparks power outages protests
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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Giant fuel depot blaze on northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro kills one
RIO DE JANEIRO - One person was killed in a spectacular fire that broke out in a fuel depot on the northern edge of Rio de Janeiro and spread to nearby homes Thursday. Six giant fuel containers at the storage site caught fire, sending giant flames up to 50 meters high leaping into the air and columns of thick smoke far into the sky that could be seen kilometers away. The victim was a ...
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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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