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TOKUSHIMA, JAPAN, November 07, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Bamboo is deeply rooted in Japanese culture and has touched every aspect of daily life from art and literature, to design, food and crafts for many centuries.

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SAITAMA A 34-year-old Tokyo woman under arrest for fraud received some 70 million from one of four male acquaintances who died mysterious deaths now being probed as foul play, investigative sources said Thursday.

Images from the 41st Tokyo Motor Show at Makuhari Messe in October, 2009 in Chiba, Japan.

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SCIENTISTS in Japan said they have uncovered evidence that shows it may be possible to delay or prevent heart failure in humans.

TOKYO Japan suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacker Saturday over its failure to remove cattle parts banned under a bilateral agreement, as officials here raised concerns about U.S. safeguards against mad cow disease.

A Japanese high court acquitted the developer of a free file-sharing software on Thursday in a high profile case over copyright law, a court official said.

Shizuka Kamei, Japan's new Financial Services Minister, has launched an "astonishing", full-frontal assault on corporate Japan, in which he charged the country's largest companies with raising the national rate of family murders.

Japanese manufacturers increased production for a sixth month in August, capping the longest stretch of gains in 12 years, as emergency spending by governments worldwide rekindled global trade.

Sadakazu Tanigaki, former finance minister in the cabinet of then Prime Minister of Junichiro Koizumi between 2003 and 2006, was elected president of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party on Monday.

On Sept. 28, almost one month after the crushing defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party that swept the party from power for only the second time in more than five decades, Taro Kono, Sadakazu Tanigaki and Yasutoshi Nishimura will compete to take leadership of Japan's opposition.

Japan Airline President Haruka Nishimatsu, center, answers reporter's question after a meeting with Japan's Land and Transport Minister Seiji Maehara in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Sept.

MENASHA - Max Schultz is amazed with the views at the new Aylward Gallery. Schultz, the director of the gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, said the experience is akin to being outdoors from inside.

A bear in the mountains of Takayama, Japan, mauled nine people in a bus terminal, four of them seriously, before it was killed by hunters, officials said.

WASHINGTON - Asian leaders at this week's economic summit will demand a greater voice in the way global financial institutions make crucial decisions.

An unmanned Japanese cargo spacecraft yesterday was plucked out of space by a robotic arm and attached to the International Space Station .

The HTV launched on Sept. 11 from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan aboard an H-IIB launch vehicle carrying up to 6,000 kg.

The International Space Station, pictured above, is about to receive a supply ship from Japan.

The Japanese space agency launched a powerful new rocket Thursday carrying an unmanned space station cargo ship on a complex maiden voyage to deliver some 7,400 pounds of equipment and supplies to the orbital outpost.