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‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’
You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. This banal platitude is the essence of ';Celeste and Jesse Forever,'; a romcom that recalls those heartwarmin,’ chick-pleasin’ love stories of the 1990s and early 2000s. Cowritten by Rashida Jones (Quincy Jones’ daughter, who also plays the titular Celeste), this is an old-school romcom with old-school ...
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‘The Place Beyond the Pines’
';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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Son of Cronenberg debuts with sickly body horror
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult ...
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Electric fireflies to light up river
Light the way: Thousands of bulbs float down Tokyo's Sumida River during last year's Tokyo Hotaru Festival. | AMANOGAWA PROJECTE_SRTM/© TOKYO ...
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Mr. Murakami’s tale of redemption
Mr. Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, ';Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,'; his first since the publication of ';1Q84″ about three years ago, sold a million copies in seven days after it hit the stands. The publisher, Bungei Shunju, printed 500,000 copies in advance of the April 12 publication date in anticipation of huge demand — an ...
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An overture to Pyongyang
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents. Japan has made it clear to North Korea that the abduction issue as well as the issue of the North’s ...
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Global call to women standing on the sidelines
Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls — from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland — have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses. In Bangladesh and Cambodia, the shocking loss of life by garment factory workers, many of them women, sparked ...
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No heroes in AP news leak
Whoever provided the initial leak to the Associated Press in April 2012 not only broke the law but caused the abrupt end to a secret, joint U.S./Saudi/British operation in Yemen that offered valuable intelligence against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. One goal was to ...
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Liberia Govt Silent Over Reported Sale of Japanese Donated Rice in Guinea
The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Commerce & Industry is yet to comment on the reported sale of a huge consignment Japanese donated rice to Liberia in neighboring Guinea. Last week, the Heritage, based on cogent reports obtained from officialdom, reported that the United Commodities Incorporated (UCI) recently sold huge consignment of the Japanese donated rice to ...
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On Top Of The World At 80 Japanese Climber Summits Everest
A photo from May 22 shows Yuichiro Miura, 80, right, and his son, Gota at their South Col camp at 26,247 feet during their climb to the top of Mount Everest. Miura became the oldest man to reach the ...
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Panic sees Tokyo shares drop 7.3
Panicky investors dumped shares on the Tokyo market Thursday, sending the main index plunging more than 7 percent on weak Chinese data after months of sharp climbs.The Nikkei 225 index closed at the day's low of 14,483.98, down 1,143.28 points, or 7.32 percent. It was the biggest daily fall since March 15, 2011, in the wake of a huge earthquake-tsunami and the nuclear crisis.In terms of ...
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Japan’s companies to blame for debt
Japan's government is up to its neck in debt. That, however, is not because the government has been overly profligate, but because Japanese companies have been deleveraging for a long time. If Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies revive private investment, the government's track record suggests it will tighten its belt.If the private sector increases savings, the government must ...
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Is Japan The New Apple
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, in Sydney. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Many big hedge fund investors have in recent years had a very hard time keeping up with the U.S. stock market and other financial benchmarks against which they are judged. The big market drop in Japan will probably make things even harder for some of ...
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Japanese octogenarian becomes oldest person to summit Everest
A team of climbers, including 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, stand on the summit of Mount Everest this morning. Photograph: ...
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World stocks slump as Japans Nikkei loses 7
Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago. Several reasons have been blamed for the 7.3 percent fall in the Nikkei index to 14,483.98, including a spike in Japanese government bond yields and unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing figures. Mixed messages ...
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Plunge in Japans Nikkei stock index sparks global sell-off
The Dow Jones industrial average shed 107.1 points, or 0.7%, to 15,200.07 shortly after the opening bell in New York. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index tumbled 17.77 points, or 1.1%, to 1,637.58. The technology-heavy Nasdaq was off 33.37 points, or 1%, 3,429.93. Weak Chinese manufacturing data helped send ...
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Japans Honda Kagawa picked for WCup qualifier
TOKYO - Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa were picked Thursday in Japan's 26-man squad for the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Australia next month.Japan has 13 points in Group B of Asian qualifying and can clinch its fifth straight World Cup appearance with a draw against Australia on June 4 at Saitama Stadium. Australia is third with six points and needs to do well in its remaining three ...
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Japanese man 80 oldest to top Everest—for now
KATMANDU, Nepal-An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him. Yuichiro Miura, a former extreme skier who also climbed the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak when he was 70 and 75, reached ...
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U.N. mine clearing work under way in Mali
An anti-land mine advocacy group said it would work with a U.N. stabilization mission in Mali to clear unexploded ordnance from the country. The U.N. Mine Action Service said it was preparing to deploy an African-led mission to work with the U.N. stabilization mission in Mali on mine abatement. UNMAS set up an office in Mali in January, the same month the government called in French support to ...
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Square launches mobile payments in Japan
Square Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey. Square Inc. has announced available of its mobile-payments system in Japan, its first market outside the United States. Merchants in the country will be able to get a Square credit card reader for free and accept payments for 3.25 percent of each transaction. The company is working in a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Card Corp. in the country, where people have a ...
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At the open TSX U.S. stocks slide as Nikkei plunge ignites fears
U.S. and Canadian stock markets opened with steep losses, as a breathtaking plunge in Japanese stocks overnight created concern that it could foreshadow a broader correction in global equity markets. A surprisingly weak economic report out of China, along with heightened worries that the U.S. Federal Reserve may soon start curtailing its massive bond-buying program, have given investors reason ...
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80-year Japanese conquers Mt. Everest
Kathamandu, May 23 : An 80-year-old Japanese climber, Yuichiro Miura, on Thursday set a new record as he became the oldest person in the world to reach the summit of the world's highest peak Mount ...
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Nikkei Tanks 7 U.S. Stocks Struggle For Support
Ben Bernanke testifying in front of Congress followed by the Fed minutes. Many investors, I think, were wary of those two events given the recent rhetoric about QE tapering, and it appears big institutional players elected to take some profits before and during those events yesterday. World markets reacted overnight to the major reversal in U.S. markets yesterday and are down big this morning. ...
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Japan stocks plunge 7
A global rally in stocks came to an abrupt halt Thursday as a 7% plunge on Japan's Nikkei index unnerved investors in Europe and set the tone for a weak opening on Wall ...
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NewsWatch Japan minister Not worried about day’s stock drop
Japan's economy minister says the government is not worried about a sharp decline in share prices earlier in the day, as the move represented large-scale profit taking orders triggered by weak Chinese ...
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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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