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Nationalism rearing ugly head with greater frequency
Angry protesters took to the streets Sunday in Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo district, home to many Korean shops and restaurants, describing the Korean residents there as ';cockroaches'; and calling for their immediate ';extermination.'; It was only the latest in a series of anti-Korean rallies in the neighborhood that have grown more intense in the past few months. Often ...
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Annual entrance passes eyed for Skytree
The operator of Tokyo Skytree is considering issuing annual observatory entrance passes, Michiaki Suzuki, president of Tobu Tower Skytree Co., said in an interview. ';A new ticket sales strategy is undoubtedly a key part of our business agenda. We are now examining the timing of the launch of the passes,'; Suzuki said. Currently, an on-the-day entry ticket for the 634-meter-tall ...
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Does France have right revival plan
PARIS - The man charged with reviving France’s shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest there is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite. As the country’s first-ever minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg has told the world’s largest steelmaker it is not welcome in France; exchanged angry letters with the head of an American tire company he was ...
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Kagawa can become United star despite frustrating first season
Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped ';liberate'; a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
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Spurs ride out storm
When Tony Parker started running low on masterful plays, Tim Duncan was there to take over and guide the San Antonio Spurs to a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals. Parker had 15 points and a career playoff-high 18 assists, Duncan scored San ...
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Guitarist Dustin Wong brings singer Takako Minekawa out on a ‘Toropical’ journey
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
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Explore one of Tokyo’s most indie neighborhoods at Shimokitazawa Sound Cruising
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
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Finding an artistic home for fashion
Spring wear: Tsumura Kosuke's transparent survival jackets, now on display in the design gallery at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. | © FINAL ...
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The humor of candid camera
With the advent of the digital camera, mobile phones and social networking, the world is now drowning in photographic imagery. This raises the question: Can photography survive as an art form in a world where it is ubiquitous? The exhibition of work by Kayo Ume, under the title ';Umekayo,'; at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery offers a partial response to this question, and suggests ...
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Sometimes it’s hard for Leonardo to impress
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
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Ms. Park’s triumphant U.S. visit
The prospect of a clash over defense policy between South Korea's new president and the U.S. has been diminished by North Korea's own ham-fisted ...
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Watching what the church does
-bashing. Catholics are bashed quite enough by their own pedophile priests. 2. She says my letter ';falsely portrays the Cathars as a … wrongfully persecuted religious minority.'; So, in Kim’s opinion, they were obviously a rightfully persecuted minority. 3. She says ';the Cathars had murdered a papal envoy.'; And that justifies the murder over decades of an ...
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Inventors of human rights
Jennifer Kim, in her letter of May 16, seems to be doing a bit of an Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto special. She appears to be suggesting that the mass murder of heretics [Cathars] was necessary at the time. She seems to take the apparent wrongness of their teaching — which supposedly took the anti-life bias of Christianity a little too far — as justification for a ...
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Perfect material for bullying
It ain’t easy being a bilingual girl ';: I agree that bilingual Japanese face obstacles today as they did 30 years ago. We are constantly subjected to bullying in private as well as in the media. Look at all the television shows that persistently make fun of returnees, portraying them as some unidentified creature. We are considered stuck up because of our opinions, and our good ...
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Hitler cited his religious faith
While there does seem to be some disagreement among historians about the degree of Adolf Hitler’s religious beliefs, I think it’s inaccurate for Jennifer Kim, in her May 16 letter, to claim his Catholicism was abandoned in his youth. Published in 1925 and 1926, ';Mein Kampf'; includes a plethora of religious statements. For example, on page 46, Hitler wrote, ';I ...
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Use of ‘force’ was the difference
Perhaps I am in a rare position to comment, from almost firsthand experience, on the statements [about the inevitability of wartime prostitution] made by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto and former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara. In the 1960s I served my country as a fighter pilot and, as such, was often on foreign bases and in the company of pilots and other military personnel from other countries. I ...
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Embarrassing for the Japanese
Many of us who are of Japanese descent, but who are now citizens of foreign countries by birth or emigration, are totally in shock and disbelief over the continuous stream of distortions of history that emanate from Japanese politicians. For what the world community describes as rape, kidnapping, slavery and crimes against humanity, Japanese leaders use the phrase ';voluntary support for ...
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Not for impressionable men
';I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
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‘Obama scandals’ could actually hurt Republicans
NEW YORK - Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three major controversies about the Obama administration. Conservatives are at a low boil over the administration’s dissembling about its actions after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The public is concerned about the targeting of conservative groups ...
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Japans humble space dream to come true triumphantly
"I came to Japan for the first time in 1987, when I attended the well-known Japanese Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF), which gathers nuclear scientists from around the world. It takes place in spring when cherry trees blossom, so everything was very beautiful and unusual. I delivered a speech on Chernobyl, and, among other things, Academician Legasov. Some time later, I went to Japan for the ...
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Japan’s trade deficit hits $8.6bn
Tokyo - Japan reports its trade deficit widened to a larger-than-expected 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion) in April as its weakening currency accentuated surging import ...
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Tokyo stocks close up
Tokyo - Tokyo stocks climbed 1.60 percent to close at their highest level in more than five years with investor appetite unabated on a weak yen and record-setting levels on Wall ...
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BOJ target at risk as spreads show tame G-7 prices
The extra yield on Group of Seven nations' notes over Japan's narrowed to 61 basis points last week, the lowest since 1990, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data. While central banks in G-7 countries keep borrowing costs at record lows and maintain unprecedented stimulus, consumer-price increases have lost momentum in most of those economies. The BOJ affirmed its ...
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Cesium levels in water plankton baffle scientists
Plankton and seawater sampled at 10 points less than a year after the Fukushima meltdowns found concentrations of radioactive cesium were highest at different locations in the Pacific, puzzling scientists. The group collected zooplankton and surface seawater at 10 points between Hokkaido and Guam, 500 to 2,100 km from the crippled power plant, between Jan. 14 and Feb. 5, 2012. Cesium 134, with ...
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As Hashimoto self-destructs party also reels
Recent remarks by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto justifying the Imperial Japanese Army’s ';comfort women'; brothel system have upset relations with the United States and South Korea and enraged human rights activists both at home and abroad. The impact on domestic politics has also been great, as major parties distance themselves from Hashimoto’s Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan ...
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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.
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