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The purpose of this study was to audit pseudohyperkalaemia at commercial laboratories in Japan.

A top secret document concerning the Japan-U.S. agreement on bringing nuclear weapons into Japan in case of emergency has been in the possession of the family of the late Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, who signed the accord with U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1969, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Tuesday.

Travelers flying between Britain and Japan are increasingly opting for indirect routes due to the recession and convenient transits, according to industry officials.

A growing deficit, a spat with Washington, a campaign finance investigation and broken promises: Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama 's first 100 days in office in Japan have been anything but smooth.

Published: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 5:12 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 5:12 a.m. Have you ever tried to think up the worst meal you could imagine? How about blue-ringed octopus, floral egg crab, basket shell snails and puffer fish.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro says Copenhagen ignored the concerns of South American and Caribbean countries.

Students and graduates say a draft decree aiming to regulate Vietnamese studying and working abroad could hinder the country's efforts to lure and retain those trained in developed countries.

By K.C. Golden, climatesolutions.org COPENHAGEN - The world is aghast. Its fate, it seems, 'lies in the hands of a few U.S. Senators,' as Ian Fry lamented in his plea to the Climate Summit to do a real, science-driven deal here in Copenhagen.

Cars streaked by a bus stop on Sanjo-dori, one of Kyoto's main shopping thoroughfares.

This spring, special education teacher Anthony Mullen&#151a former New York City police officer&#151was named the 59th National Teacher of the Year.

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2008 file photo, the head part of a new model of N700 bullet train, or the... FILE - In this Oct.

At first glance, the Copenhagen climate summit seems like a Salvador Dali dreamscape.

On the edge of town, by a bridge over a stream amid fields of rice stubble, there is a roughly hewn stone Buddha.

The industry group that sets standards in the credit-default swaps market is forming a panel of lawyers and market participants to consider whether a private corporate debt restructuring process in Japan should trigger payouts to buyers of the debt-protection contracts.

The industry group that sets standards in the credit-default swaps market is forming a panel of lawyers and market participants to consider whether a private corporate debt restructuring process in Japan should trigger payouts to buyers of the debt-protection contracts.

E-mail: oshimura@grape.med.tottori-u.ac.jp Received 17 September 2009; Accepted 25 October 2009; Published online 8 December 2009.

Cyclists now park more or less where they please, and only rarely fear the tow trucks that come around once a month or so and take illegally parked bikes to a lot in deep south Kyoto.

Land of rising sun Tokyo , TA kyA , Japan Thursday, December 3, 2009 Virgin on12 hour flight to Narita airport.

Two months after taking power, Japan 's new leadership is still raising alarms in the United States with its continued scrutiny of the countries' more than half-century-old security alliance .

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