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How a Japanese Scientist Developed the Tornado Rating System
Rescue efforts continued Tuesday to uncover survivors from the tornado that came through Moore, Oklahoma. It has been preliminarily declared a category F4, that is Fujita Scale 4. The system of rating tornadoes was developed by Ted Fujita, a scientist from Japan. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Harold Brooks, research meteorologist for the National Severe Storms Laboratories in Norman, ...
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The new consoles from Microsoft Nintendo and Sony
NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. Tuesday's unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall's debut of Nintendo's Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4 from ...
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Sony to assess spin-off proposal for entertainment business Nikkei
(Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering evaluating a proposal from top shareholder Third Point LLC to spin off part of its movie and music business, Japanese daily Nikkei ...
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In Japan Citizen Radiation-Tracking Project Goes Big Time
A post-Fukushima effort to crowdsource radiation data in Japan has since become the largest source of radiation data in the country. And it’s now set to expand to other parts of the world. Catherine Winter reports from ...
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Japanese JV selects Freeport for chemical plant
Mitsui and Idemitsu have formed a joint venture that will build a chemical plant at Dow's Freeport location. A joint venture between Mitsui & Company Ltd. and Idemitsu Kosan Company Ltd., two Japanese chemical companies, has chosen to build an alpha olefins chemical plant at Dow Chemical Co.s (NYSE: DOW) Freeport location. Bloomberg reports that the joint venture applied for air emissions ...
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Former World Bank chief warns Japanese growth may be sugar high
WASHINGTON--Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday that Japan's economic drive needed accompanying structural reforms, voicing fear that recent growth could be just a "sugar ...
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China-Japan trade will pick up report
/enpproperty--> Economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will get back on track if there is no further deterioration of the countries' already strained ties, leading Chinese think tanks said in an annual report released on Tuesday. The row over ...
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Hashimoto brings South Korea into fray
South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing women in wartime, Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said in comments reported Tuesday, days after provoking a storm by labeling sex slaves a military necessity. In a remark likely to fuel outrage and further stoke tensions in an already uneasy relationship, Hashimoto said the South Korean military ...
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Politics goes pop in ‘Arab Idol’ show
When speaking of Japanese art, people use words such as wabi and sabi, words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective show of painter Toko Shinoda, the first word that comes to mind is ...
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Miike’s gore-filled flick panned at Cannes
CANNES DO ATTITUDE: Actors Takao Osawa (left) and Nanako Matsushita, and director Takashi Miike, arrive Monday for the screening of the film 'Shield of Straw' ('Wara no Tate') at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France. | ...
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Japan edges Denmark 3-2 at Sudirman Cup
Japan edged past Denmark 3-2 in Group D at the 13th Sudirman Cup team badminton championships here on Tuesday in a thrilling encounter which lasted more than five hours.Matsutomo Misaki/Takahashi Ayaka defeated last year's Malaysia Open champions Christinna Pedersen/Kamilla Rytter Juhl 22-20, 21-16 in the women's doubles to deliver Japan's winning point.Denmark took the lead first ...
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Japan Basks In Its New Position As An Affordable Travel Destination
The difference a year can make: When I spoke with Yuki Tanaka, the Executive Director of the Japan National Tourism Organization in the U.S., last May, travel to Japan was just recovering from the a drastic decline following the March 11, 2011 Sendai earthquake and a close call with disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. What's more, tourism to Japan was also facing a structural ...
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Japan to Keep Approach to N. Korean Abductions
--Japan's minister for North Korean abductions of Japanese nationals says Tokyo will continue making independent overtures to Pyongyang --Washington and Seoul have raised concern that a recent trip by an aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could hurt joint efforts to pressure North Korea to drop its nuclear and missile programs --The minister says Japan's envoy told Pyongyang ...
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How Xbox One Plans to Fight Sony Steam and Everything Else
Game of Thrones fix immediately. When the order went through and we were ready to binge-watch, it wasn’t our cable box we turned on, but our Xbox. This news, I am sure, would be music to Microsoft’s ears. It may have launched the Xbox 360 in 2005 as a gaming machine filled with games for gamers, but somewhere in the middle of that long lifecycle it decided to focus what seemed to be ...
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Experts urge Japan watchdog to delay decision on closure of nuclear plant over seismic fault
TOKYO - Experts commissioned by the operator of a Japanese nuclear plant that faces possible closure because of a suspected active seismic fault say a decision should wait, citing insufficient data. Tuesday's request came a day before Japan's nuclear watchdog is to rule on the future of the Tsuruga No. 2 reactor in western Japan. The watchdog's own panel said last week that the ...
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Learn from Japan the dangers of half measures
economy is being held back by fiscal austerity, low confidence and tight credit conditions. "Deep challenges persist in its financial system. Without sustained and significant reforms, a decade of stagnation threatens," Carney said in the prepared text of a speech he was delivering in Montreal. "Europe can draw lessons from Japan on the dangers of half measures," he said, ...
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Finnair Cargo Expands Air Freight Capacity for Brussels Tokyo
will add more air freight capacity to and from Brussels, starting June 6.In addition to the MD-11 freighter service between Helsinki and Brussels on Saturdays and Sundays, Finnair's passenger flight to and from Brussels on Thursday mornings will now be flown with an Airbus A340 aircraft."This enables us to offer fast transport between Central Europe and Asia also for large ...
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Japan to launch new rocket with satellite on Aug. 22
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch the country's new solid-fuel rocket Epsilon on Aug. 22, carrying a satellite whose mission is to observe Venus and Mars while orbiting Earth, the science ministry said ...
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X Japan waxes lyrical at Madame Tussauds debut
This Monday, members of the seminal metal band X Japan were in Odaiba rubbing shoulders with the likes of Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and AKB48s Yuko Oshima. The catch? They were all made out of ...
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Teen sent to Japanese detention facility for setting fire to shrine
The 15-year-old son of a U.S. contractor assigned to Camp Zama will spend time in a Japanese juvenile detention facility for setting fire to a historic ...
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Japan draws up draft measures against cyberattacks
At a meeting of the government's panel on information security policies, members agreed on draft measures that include a special unit for cyberdefense within the Self-Defense ...
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Sex slavery row costs Hashimoto electoral cooperation
The small opposition Your Party decided Tuesday to cancel planned electoral cooperation with the Japan Restoration Party, following controversial remarks by its co-head and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto concerning wartime sexual ...
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Transport ministry to unify rules for baby strollers on buses trains
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has announced that it intends to draw up a set of unified rules for the use of baby strollers on buses and ...
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Premature escalation Sex-industry source reverses position on Abenomics
With Japan's Nikkei index continuing its upward momentum this month, the term "Abenomics" has been commonly included in articles by just about any major financial newspaper or magazine one might care to name. This week is no exception - and it might signal that the days of cheap sex in Tokyo are ...
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Imperial Couple to hand over some public duties to younger generation
';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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Tokyo's new international airport making waves
Haneda airport was renamed Haneda International Airport with the opening of the new International Terminal, which will see several million passengers pass through it each year as the airport regains its status as a global airport with connections to major cities across the world.
When Haneda first opened in 1931 it was the largest civilian airport in the whole country and during the Second World War became a major US Air Base after the invasion of Japan and the country’s surrender. Read more
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