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29 min ago | AdelaideNow...

Rescue-bot can sniff out disaster

JAPANESE emergency services are to trial a small tank-like rescue robot that can search rubble for survivors and deliver water, food or mobile phones in disaster zones.

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4 hrs ago | News On Japan

2 children found dead at Osaka apartment, mother arrested

A 23-year-old woman was arrested Friday on suspicion of abandoning the bodies of her two children at her apartment in the city of Osaka, police said.

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9 hrs ago | WisInfo

Peace Crane Project pushes for nuclear-free world

For the past year, a group of local citizens has led a grassroots effort to promote a nuclear-free world.

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13 hrs ago | CBC News

Feature: Novelist David Mitchell explains Thousand Autumns

British author David Mitchell, whose new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, is longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize.

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17 hrs ago | The Epoch Times

iPod Nano Deemed Fire Hazard by Japan's Trade Ministry

The iPod Nano music player has been deemed a fire hazard by Japan's trade ministry, who has asked Apple Inc.

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Thu Jul 29, 2010

News On Japan

2 Japanese films nominated for Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion

Two Japanese movies have been nominated for the 67th Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award, organizers of the festival beginning Sept.

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The Orange County Register

Cypress woman heads to Japan

Rachelle Devera, a Cypress resident and recent Cal State Long Beach graduate, has been selected as a Yokkaichi English Fellow.

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CNSNews.com

Racism or Stupidity

A black or white person, now dead, who lived during the civil rights struggles of the 1930s, '40s or '50s, might very well be appalled and disgusted by the kind of black behavior that is accepted today.

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Christian Science Monitor

Japan announces death penalty review after hanging two men

Japan angered abolitionists by executing two men this week, in the first hangings since the country's center-left government took office in September.

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WHP-TV Harrisburg

Seven Jackson doctors will not face charges

Legend Award winner Michael Jackson poses with his award at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards at the Yoyogi National Athletic Stadium May 27, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram

UAE official: Japanese tanker was in a collision

The chief official at the port where a Japanese tanker was docked a day after it was damaged while sailing out of the Persian Gulf says investigators now believe the ship may have been involved in a collision.

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Athens Banner-Herald

UAE official: Japanese tanker was in a collision

The chief official at the port where a Japanese tanker was docked a day after it was damaged while sailing out of the Persian Gulf says investigators now believe the ship may have been involved in a collision.

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CNSNews.com

Japan Welcomes News That U..S Envoy Will Attend Hiroshima Commemoration for First Time

This screenshot from a video clip shows President Obama speaking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki during a joint press conference with then Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, in Tokyo on November 13, 2009.

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Central Asia News.Net

Japan executes two men by hanging

Japan has hanged two men in the first executions in the country for around a year.

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Wed Jul 28, 2010

Bloomberg.com - Asia

Freshman Lawmaker Who Ran Tully's Coffee in Japan Urges Corporate Tax Cut

Former Tullya s Coffee Japan Co. President Kota Matsuda , who was elected to parliament this month, said the country must cut corporate taxes to attract investment or risk losing out to Asian rivals.

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News.3Yen.com

Hitachi Japan's plans for 'Life Recorders'

For decades dorks have dreamed a "Life Recorder" the you can wear on your person to constantly take video and provide a positional GPS record your daily life for your personal entertainment, work, security or stalking.

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Nature Publishing Group

Magnesium intake and type II diabetes in Japanese men and women: the...

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition advance online publication 28 July 2010; doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2010.138 Magnesium intake and type II diabetes in Japanese men and women: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study 1Department of Epidemiology and International Health, International Clinical Research Center, National Center for Global ...

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Telegraph.co.uk

Britain and US may attend Hiroshima bomb memorial for first time

Britain and the United States are considering sending representatives for the first time to the anniversary ceremony of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, according to reports.

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Mt. Vernon Register-News

Japan native rollerblades across U.S.

Amanda Duncan was driving on Highway 50 in Odin last week, and couldn't believe it when she saw an older man rollerblading on the highway, in the face of the midday heat.

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MSNBC

Tanker damaged in suspected 'terrorist attack'

An explosion damaged an oil tanker near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Japan's shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said Wednesday.

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