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19 min ago | Daily Yomiuri

Smile of unborn baby photographed

A picture of a smiling baby in the womb has been photographed--reportedly for the first time ever--by a research team led by Prof.

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Related Topix: Sacred Heart University, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, World News, Japan,

Tue Dec 22, 2009

Bangkok Post

What Comes of Ideas When Inspired

After a brief introduction in Japanese learned by heart, Chatr Tharachatr began presenting how his invention, Asumo, could help kill the H1N1 virus in our bodies.

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, World News, Japan, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Thu Dec 17, 2009

The Epoch Times

Japanese Swordsmanship Keeps Art of Samurai Alive

Masami Shioda, 60, holds a large bamboo stick wrapped in leather, facing Vernon Church, a 48-year-old Internet executive wielding a similar bamboo stick.

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Related Topix: Japan, World News

Mon Dec 14, 2009

The Japan Times

Proposal followed fight over feline

Moving in together is a natural thing for loving couples to do, but their reasons sometime differ.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, Travel, Japan Travel, Tokyo, Japan Travel, Temple University, Wedding

Sun Dec 13, 2009

Detroit Free Press

The D-Day that never came

There is no massive statue at Sagami Bay of an angel with a sword and a coronet.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, Asia, Mixed Martial Arts, Nate Marquardt

Tue Dec 08, 2009

Reuters

Japan asset firm offers new-style capitalism

In a post global financial crisis world, it may be fitting that the first fund to be launched by a new Japanese asset firm in a year paints itself as an antidote to unfettered Western-style capitalism.

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Related Topix: Japan, World News

Tue Nov 24, 2009

The Wichita Eagle

Target Tokyo: The Invasion Of Japan That Never Happened

The Great Buddha of Kamakura is a bronze statue of Amida Buddha, which stands on the grounds of Kotokuin Temple.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, Asia, Mixed Martial Arts, Nate Marquardt, Tsunami, Natural Disasters, Entertainment

Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Japan Times

First U.S. 'Pacific president' vows leadership in Asia

Following is the full text of U.S. President Barack Obama's speech Saturday at Suntory Hall in Minato Ward, Tokyo, as released by the White House after it was delivered : Boosting ties: U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech Saturday at Suntory Hall in Minato Ward, Tokyo.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, World News, Japan, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Pravda

President Obama Charmes His Audience during Visits Tokyo

US President Barack Obama charmed his Tokyo audience on Saturday with references to green tea ice cream, Japanese traditional hospitality and, of course, the small town that bears his name.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, Tea, Drink, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama,

Mon Nov 16, 2009

The Japan Times

Japan central to Asia plans, Obama says

U.S. President Barack Obama expressed Saturday in Tokyo his firm intention to build strong ties with Asia while stressing that the alliance with Japan lies at the center of his policy for the region.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan,

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Asahi Shimbun

Remarks by President Barack Obama

Thank you so much. Arigatou. Thank you very much. Good morning. It is a great honor to be in Tokyo -- the first stop on my first visit to Asia as President of the United States.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, World News, Japan, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Newsday.com

What time is it?

Even White House press secretary Robert Gibbs found the time change startling as President Barack Obama 's tour of Asia got under way.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Travel, Japan Travel, Asia,

Fri Oct 23, 2009

The Japan Times

Life in JAPANSeasonal rules permeate daily life in Japan

I grew up in Florida, and our year divides itself into seasons of bearable and unbearable.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, Life, Food, Vegetables, Home Gardening, Home

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Korean News

Regular Seminar of IIJI Held in Japan

A regular seminar of the International Institute of the Juche Idea was held in Japan on Oct.

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Related Topix: Japan, World News, Asia, South Korea, North Korea

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Daily Yomiuri

New flu hits school activities / 20% of middle schools shut down or tell students to stay home

The spread of the new strain of influenza has forced many schools to postpone or call off school trips and sports and culture festivals they had planned for the autumn.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Influenza, Health, World News, Japan

Sat Oct 17, 2009

Associated Content

Top Three Things to Do in Kamakura, Japan

Just a one hour train ride from the center of Tokyo, Japan, Kamakura is an escape back in time.

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Related Topix: Japan, World News, Tsunami, Natural Disasters

Thu Oct 08, 2009

Wordpress.tokyotimes.org

Ibaraki's really big Buddha

The far more famous Kamakura Daibutsu may well have more history, character and aesthetic merit, but when it comes to sheer and surely insurmountable size, the Ushiku Daibutsu in Ibaraki Prefecture is patently unparalleled.

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Related Topix: Japan, World News

Mon Sep 28, 2009

The Japan Times

LIFELINESLifelines lead back to World War II

Kevin Roop, writing to us from the U.S., is trying to find an old friend of his 85-year-old father, Vernon Roop, a veteran of World War II who after the war was based with his unit, the 5th AAF, at Tachikawa Air Base in Tokyo.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, US Military, US Air Force, Fuchu Air Station,

Sat Sep 26, 2009

The Japan Times

MUSIC Miyake score taps the exotic

Jun Miyake is a self-proclaimed lover of the exotic. Nowhere is this more evident than in his latest composition, the music for a revival of avant-garde playwright Shuji Terayama's 1977 play, "Chugoku no Fushigina Yakunin" . Exotic tastes: Jun Miyake poses for a photograph by Jean-Paul Goude.

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Related Topix: Jun Miyake, Jazz, Einsturzende Neubauten, Industrial, Terumasa Hino, World News, Japan, Vinicius Cantuaria

Thu Sep 24, 2009

Tricycle

Top Ten Misconceptions About Buddhism

What do university students in an Introduction to Buddhism class say are the top ten misconceptions Americans have about Buddhism?: 1." Buddha" is spelled "Buddah. " Outside the temple of the Daibutsu in Kamakura, Japan , a sign asks visitors to display a respectful attitude in the presence of the Bhudda.

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Related Topix: Religion, Buddhism, World News, Japan,

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