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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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Driverless cars pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for us
LONDON - Suddenly a robotized, automated economic reality is moving off the science fiction pages and into daily life. The growing use of unmanned battlefield drones is encouraging the growth of pilotless commercial aircraft — the first ever flew in British airspace last month. Google’s driverless car is completing ever more trials ever more successfully: the world’s major car ...
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LeBron Kobe earn All-NBA honors
NEW YORK - LeBron James was a unanimous pick for the All-NBA team and Kobe Bryant earned his record-tying 11th first-team selection. James received all 119 votes for the first team from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the U.S. and Canada. Joining the league’s MVP and Bryant on the first team Thursday were Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, San Antonio center Tim ...
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Indians pound Red Sox in Francona’s return to Fenway
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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Griffin striving to be ready for season opener
ASHBURN, VIRGINIA - Robert Griffin III’s rehab started with a ';cry festival.'; Then came a special new passcode for his cellphone and a chance to hash things out with coach Mike Shanahan. There’s also been a Twitter rant about political correctness, some flak about all the wedding gifts he’s received and, most recently, a suggestion from his father that the ...
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Coach K stays on Team USA
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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FILA changes impress IOC’s Rogge
LONDON - Wrestling’s governing body has ';reacted well'; and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its place in the Olympics, IOC President Jacques Rogge said. Rogge said FILA has dealt with the issues that led the IOC executive board in February to remove wrestling from the list of core sports for the 2020 Games. ';I think they had the good ...
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Kitajima claims victory in 100-meter breaststroke at Japan Open
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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Cole not fit for England captaincy
LONDON - He is seen as the type of player who gives footballers a bad name. Someone who typifies all the perceived negatives about the modern-day player. Ashley Cole is the snarling face of the beautiful game, someone who disputes every decision made by a referee or an assistant, someone who seems to thrive on his unpopularity. Greedy, unfaithful, ungrateful with a grudge against the media to ...
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Detroit moves out to 3-1 lead
DETROIT - Jimmy Howard kept Jonathan Toews in his misery, making three saves against the struggling star to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-0 on Thursday night in Game 4 of the second round series to put the NHL’s best team during the regular season on the brink of elimination. When Howard wasn’t using his glove or pads to deny Toews, Detroit’s skaters ...
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Geary’s vision drive keyed Yokohama’s title run
There was something refreshing, interesting and fun about the Yokohama B-Corsairs from the beginning. It wasn’t always the easiest thing to explain in a few short words. Sure, there were the carefully orchestrated parts — the Xs and Os, in-game adjustments — but the bj-league team just seemed to know what it was doing from the get-go. Head coach Reggie Geary walked onto the ...
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Hakuho awaits ozeki rival
Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho and ozeki Kisenosato both powered to their 13th wins on Friday to set up a mouth-watering showdown at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. Unbeaten at 13-0, Hakuho and Kisenosato are the only two wrestlers in title contention and they go toe-to-toe Saturday in a match that will go a long way to deciding the championship. Hakuho is 30-8 in the head-to-heads against ...
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Moriwaki enjoying challenge playing for Urawa brings
Urawa Reds supporters will demand nothing less than three points from this weekend’s J. League clash with Kashiwa Reysol, but after swapping the comfort of hometown team Sanfrecce Hiroshima for the bear pit of Saitama, defender Ryota Moriwaki wouldn’t have it any other way. ...
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Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
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The junkie and his fix
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64th Kyoto Takigi noh performance to be held
The 64th Kyoto Takigi noh performance will take place from 5:30 p.m. on the first weekend of June in Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto. Featured are the plays ';Tamanoi,'; ';Hanjo,'; ';Ochanomizu'; and ';Koi no Omoni'; on June 1, and ';Kamo,'; ';Mitsuyama,'; ';Kubibiki'; and ';Oeyama'; the following day. Advance tickets ...
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English education and English sheepdogs
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to globalize Japan’s workforce and says that Japan must become more competitive in the English language. This has touched off a debate among native English teachers, Japanese who teach English, Japanese speakers who don’t speak English, and English sheepdogs owned by both Japanese and English speakers. On one hand, you have people who ask why Japanese ...
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Bill threatens the lives of the poor
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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End the U.S. military’s culture of sexual violence
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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Challenge of a lifetime again
Mr. Yuichiro Miura, an adventurer who is 80 years and seven months old, reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday morning local time, becoming the oldest person to scale the world’s highest mountain. We congratulate him on his feat. His accomplishment is particularly meaningful given Japan’s rapidly graying society and the fact that he is older than the average Japanese male ...
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Why U.K. exit from EU may now be a real possibility
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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Derivatives trade booms in wake of Japan stock slide
By Helen Bartholomew Fri May 24, 2013 10:11am EDT 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, translated into bumper derivatives ...
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Japan PM’s Residence ‘Not Haunted’ – Government
TOKYO, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – The Japanese government denied rumors on Friday that the prime minister's official residence is haunted, the Kyodo news portal reported. The denial came after a query by an opposition lawmaker, who wanted to know if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had not yet moved into his official residence, five months after coming to power, because of rumors that the ...
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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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