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Meltdowns haven’t killed anyone LDP bigwig
Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Sanae Takaichi has created a stir by saying the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns didn’t kill anyone and arguing the government should restart reactors nationwide given Japan’s scarce energy resources. Delivering a speech in Kobe on Monday, Takaichi said the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 plant ';has not claimed the lives of any people,'; and ...
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Tiny airport is gateway to Everest
Your adventure begins here: A passenger gasps during turbulence as her flight approaches the tiny airport in Lukla, Nepal, late last month. The airstrip has earned the reputation of being one of the most extreme and dangerous airports in the world. | ...
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Tepco minutes reveal staff exodus concerns
Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives spent dozens of meetings fretting about the utility’s future as hundreds of younger employees quit over salary cuts after the Fukushima No. 1 reactor meltdowns, according to minutes obtained by Bloomberg News. ';The company could quickly deteriorate'; as workers leave at ';a rapidly accelerating rate,'; an unidentified executive said ...
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Lavrov to visit in fall talks on isle row eyed
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Monday that Moscow would dispatch its top diplomat to Japan this fall to boost political dialogue, a Japanese official said. The leaders also confirmed that talks on an island dispute that has prevented the ...
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Bruins go up 2-1 on Blackhawks
If things go smoothly, a Kobe-based private network will begin in vitro fertilization with ova from donors by yearend. Some legal problems are ...
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Boxing Kiyota lays down gauntlet to champion Stieglitz
Japanese super middleweight Yuzo Kiyota has a message for WBO champion Robert Stieglitz: since you think I’m the underdog, you won’t mind if I bite you. Kiyota, the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation champion, takes on Stieglitz in his first world title bout in Dresden, Germany, on July 13. By most accounts, the German fighter would appear to be the heavy favorite, but not ...
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Scherzer becomes first starter to go 10-0 since 1997
Max Scherzer has shrugged off the significance of his undefeated start, saying records are fluky statistics for pitchers and that he’s simply playing for a good team. When the Detroit Tigers right-hander found out he is the first to accomplish a couple feats since Rogers Clemens and Pedro Martinez, though, it knocked Scherzer off his humble script. ';That tickles me when you say ...
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Will Heat wilt against Spurs
The Miami Heat weren’t supposed to be in this situation. Not now, anyway. Coming home from Texas with their season on the line in 2011 was one thing. They were at the end of their first year together — LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh were still learners. But this season they were the NBA’s best team, one that lost three games in three months and made losing three ...
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Rose ends England’s long wait for major winner
Drought over: Justin Rose's victory at the U.S. Open on Sunday was the first major championship for England since Nick Faldo won the Masters back in 1996. | ...
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Nigeria rolls to 6-1 victory over Tahiti at Confederations Cup
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
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Fighters rally past Carp in interleague finale
Staying busy: Fighters rookie Shohei Otani throws a pitch to the Carp and hits a second-inning double on Tuesday at Mazda Stadium. Otani got a no-decision in Hiroshima's 7-4 victory over Hokkaido Nippon Ham. | ...
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Web company IPOs in Japan pick up pace
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
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Dragons mist and bouncy clouds await in west Tokyo
About 45 minutes from Tokyo’s skyscrapers, resting in the hinterlands of Tachikawa there is a land of mist and dragons. It’s a place where rolling hills tumble toward an Aztec pyramid, and children bounce on clouds. The place is called Showa Kinen Koen, and an afternoon there is time well spent. Take the train to Nishi Tachikawa station and walk in the main entrance. The park is ...
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Hacker game’s world now frighteningly familiar
Across the colorful show floor at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where players could become all manner of things, like a throat-slashing 18th-century pirate, zombie killer, a guardian of the last city on Earth, music-making sorcerer, ruthless Roman general, shape-shifting creature, goblin slayer and Batman. However, the role that seems to have ...
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Iran’s presidential election augurs better future
Hassan Rowhani’s election as the new Iranian president augurs well not only for that country but also for a world tired of the senseless rhetoric from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. When, at a campaign speech, Rowhani stated, ';We have no option rather than moderation,'; he was also defining what will be one of the main characteristics of his government: a more conciliatory ...
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Putting to rest five myths about personal privacy
Keeping track of your assets Money Forward is a personal financial asset management service (in Japanese) that works similar to the U.S.-based service Mint.com. With more than 160 partners including banks, credit-card companies and mobile carriers, the service automatically pulls all your financial information ...
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A U.S. ‘pivot’ to Latin America is long overdue
Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, defended his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian newspaper and attacked U.S. officials for calling him a traitor. ';The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover ...
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G-8 commitment can benefit all nations
Although the Group of Eight has often been used for gestures, it affords a rare opportunity for common action by the governments of major countries. Manifestly, there have been serious deficiencies in global economic governance. By addressing them the G-8 can help not only ourselves, but the people struggling in the world’s poorest countries. This has been Britain’s agenda as host of ...
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Lessons of a Greek tragedy
A visit to Greece leaves many vivid impressions. There are, of course, the country’s rich history, abundance of archeological sites, azure skies and crystalline seas. But there is also the intense pressure under which Greek society is now functioning — and the extraordinary courage with which ordinary citizens are coping with economic disaster. Inevitably, a visit also leaves ...
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Ova bank presents legal issues
In mid-May, a Kobe-based private organization called Oocyte Donation NETwork (OD-NET) announced that it had registered nine women who would offer ova to women who could not become pregnant due to abnormal ovarian conditions. It also announced that it had selected three infertile women to receive ova. If things go smoothly, it will start ova collection and in vitro fertilization in about a half ...
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IMFs Zhu says too early to judge Japan stimulus drive
LONDON, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:32am EDT LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - It is too soon to draw conclusions about some of the unintended side effects of Japan's $1.4 trillion stimulus push, the International Monetary Fund's deputy managing director Min Zhu said on Tuesday. Zhu said the recent rise in Japanese government bond yields showed that investors had concerns abut the ...
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Japan experts to OK animal-human embryos test
TOKYO (AFP) - Proposed experiments with animal-human embryos cleared the first regulatory hurdle Tuesday, reports said, as Japanese scientists seek permission for tests that could see human organs produced inside the growing body of an animal.Researchers want to introduce a human stem cell into an animal embryo, to create a so-called "chimeric embryo", which they can implant into an ...
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Tokyo Story The Classic
It's generally accepted that Western film audiences discovered Japanese cinema in 1951 when Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON screened at the Venice Film Festival; a few years later, Teinosuke Kinugasa's GATE OF HELL, photographed in glowing colour, also made an impact. Yasujiro Ozu's TOKYO STORY was made in 1953, the same year as GATE OF HELL, but it would be over a decade before it ...
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After Fukushima Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy
solar panels . Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."The boom was sparked by a little-noted government policy, implemented nearly a year ago, that guaranteed generous payments to anybody ...
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G8 leaders work to develop Syria statement acceptable to all
Group of Eight leaders worked to develop a statement on Syria acceptable to nations wanting a transition of power and Russia, an ally of the Syrian government. Accounts differed from officials Tuesday morning at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland on the prospects of developing a substantive agreement on Syria and the fate of its president, Bashar Assad, to which Russia might sign on, The New ...
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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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