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Economic assessment raised as weak yen fuels exports
Facts and figures: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and members of his Cabinet attend a ministerial meeting on the government's monthly economic report at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday. | ...
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Tornadoes level homes in Oklahoma one dead
Close for comfort: Jerry Dirks (right) hugs a friend after a tornado hit her home just south of Carney, Oklahoma, on Sunday. Dirks had taken refuge in her cellar at the time the tornado hit. | ...
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Skytree’s first anniversary marred by foul signals
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Okinawa rally a call for existence without bases
Making their point: Participants in a rally Sunday in Ginowan, Okinawa, call for a peaceful prefecture free of military bases 41 years after its reversion to Japanese administration. | ...
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Tokyo hospital ready to conduct preventive mastectomies
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Nadal too much for rival Federer in Italian Open final
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. ';Rafa was just ...
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Senators pull game back with double OT victory
OTTAWA - Colin Greening wore six stitches on his left cheek, and a wide smile, after Ottawa’s double overtime playoff victory against Pittsburgh. Greening ended the longest game of this year’s postseason with a backhander off a rebound 7:39 into the second OT, and the Senators’ 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins cut their series deficit to 2-1 on Sunday night. Daniel ...
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Sekizuka targets survival with Jubilo
IWATA, SHIZUOKA PREF. - New Jubilo Iwata manager Takashi Sekizuka was introduced to the media by the struggling J. League first division club on Monday. Sekizuka, who steered the Japanese men’s team to a fourth-place finish at last summer’s London Olympics, will take charge following Saturday’s away game against promoted Oita Trinita. Jubilo are currently 17th in the league. ...
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Spurs tear into Grizzlies in Game 1
SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Spurs opened the Western Conference finals resembling the past champions who’ve been there so many times before. The Memphis Grizzlies looked like the first-timers still trying to adapt to their first conference finals appearance. Tony Parker had 20 points and nine assists, Kawhi Leonard scored 18 points and the Spurs struck first by beating Memphis 105-83 ...
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Abe continues to be steadying force for Giants
The Yomiuri Giants have won the last 37 times Shinnosuke Abe has homered at Tokyo Dome. That’s an impressive streak, even if it is aided by a number of circumstances, not least of which the fact ...
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Hakuho Kisenosato move clear of Kakuryu
Yokozuna Hakuho and ozeki Kisenosato retained their perfect records through the ninth day at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday. Ozeki Kakuryu trails at 8-1 after suffering his first defeat of the tournament, while yokozuna Harumafuji, ozeki Kotoshogiku and eighth-ranked maegashira Tokitenku follow at 7-2. Hakuho couldn’t have had an easier day in the office against fourth-ranked ...
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Fear and incarceration from Kampala to Nagoya
Freedom, of sorts: Ssentamu speaks with The Japan Times in Nagoya in February. 'I must say, my detention in Japan was a worse experience than prison in Uganda,' he said. 'It changed me. I'm not the same person as I was before.' | STEPHEN ...
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Yokohama What do you think of the prime minister’s ‘Abenomic’ strategy so far
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Precedent backs equal pay for equal work
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks -- for example, 25 ...
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Ambivalent Japan turns on its ‘insular’ youth
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Apps to stay healthy hear the news and keep in touch
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks -- for example, 25 minutes work followed by a five-minute rest. There are number of Pomodoro apps available to alert you when it’s time to take a breather, but it ...
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Outsider art that comes from within
';Outsider art'; is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, ';Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,'; an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
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Turkey’s Erdogan undone by Obama and Assad
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA - The car bombs that killed 51 people on May 11 in a town in southern Turkey are a reckoning for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He had made himself party to the fight over Syria and vowed that he would see the end of Bashar Assad’s rule. But Assad has hunkered down, and the Turkish leader who called on U.S. President Barack Obama last week faces a dilemma. In ...
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Window on China’s defense policy
Last month, China released its white paper on national defense, the eighth since Beijing began releasing the document in 1998. The white paper is invariably an exercise in frustration: China’s detractors are always disappointed by the document, unsatisfied with its contents and the many questions it leaves unanswered. The Chinese government adopts an aggrieved tone in responses to ...
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Weep for poor Earth itself
OSAKA - What in the world is happening to this fragile planet Earth? The situation has become so bad that Jeremy Grantham, one of the most respected global investors with $100 billion under management, warns that ';our global economy, reckless in its use of all resources and natural systems, shows many of the indicators of potential failure that brought down so many civilizations before ...
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FOREX-Yen higher after Japanese minister discourages further drop
Mon May 20, 2013 11:43am EDT * Japanese minister suggests yen has weakened enough * BOJ meeting, Bernanke's congressional testimony in focus NEW YORK May 20 (Reuters) - The yen climbed back from a 4-1/2-year low against the dollar on Monday after Japan's economy minister suggested the currency might have weakened enough. The economy minister, Akira Amari, said the yen's excessive ...
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Cannes Sci-Fi Horror Tale Human Race Sells for Germany Australia Japan
, KSM took German-speaking Europe, Anchor Bay picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand and IPA bought Japanese rights. "We are receiving offers every day" said ...
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Sony Xperia Tablet Z finally hits the shelves
unveiled the Xperia Tablet Z , the Japanese maker announced that the fondleslab is now finally available to purchase worldwide through online and brick and mortar stores. Despite the fact that the Xperia Tablet Z hits the shelves later ...
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Soccer-Fit again Nagatomo ready to return for Japan
Inter Milan 's 5-2 home defeat to Udinese on Sunday and said he was fit again to play the full 90 minutes. "The knee is fine," Nagatomo was quoted as saying by Japan's Kyodo news agency. "I can play 90 minutes without any problems and I've had no setbacks in the recovery." Japan blew a chance to become the first Asian country to qualify for next year's ...
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Japans regional isolation higher than ever
Japan's neighbors are getting wary of PM Shinzo Abe and his center-right government. At home, however, Abe is bucking the trend of his immediate predecessors and riding high in the opinion ...
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Osaka sees first InterContinental hotel built
Osaka is a major travel destination within Japan and the wider Asian region for business travelers and leisure tourists alike. The city is an economic powerhouse and part of the backbone of the Japanese economy. It makes sense for InterContinental to finally open a hotel here then.
Osaka is the second command center of the Japanese economy after Tokyo, with a daytime and nighttime population that reflects the massive draw of the city as an economic powerhouse. Read more
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