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National › May. 25, 2013 - 04:45PM JST
Four researchers were exposed to radiation in an accident at a nuclear physics laboratory this week, officials said Saturday.
The accident occurred on Thursday at…
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Politics › May. 25, 2013 - 03:10PM JST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet on Friday formally denied months-long rumors that the premier had not moved into his official residence over fears the mansion…
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National › May. 25, 2013 - 03:25PM JST
When Masayoshi Matsumoto joined the Japanese army in 1943 and was sent to occupied China as a medic, he thought he was taking part in…
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National › May. 25, 2013 - 06:58AM JST
All Japanese citizens will be issued a 12-digit identification number starting in January 2016 after the Diet enacted a law on Friday. The so-called My…
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National › May. 25, 2013 - 06:01AM JST
A pair of cantaloupe melons sold at auction in Japan on Friday for 1.6 million yen, one of the highest prices ever paid for the…
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National › May. 24, 2013 - 04:00PM JST
As a native of the United States, I’m all too familiar with the controversy around daylight savings time. I’m not sure if anyone actually “loves”…
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Crime › May. 25, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
Police said Friday they have arrested a 52-year-old man at Narita airport for shoplifting.
According to Chiba prefectural police, the man, who is a Canadian…
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Crime › May. 24, 2013 - 02:00PM JST
Police said Friday they have arrested a truck driver after his vehicle struck and killed a 17-year-old schoolgirl on her bike in Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture.…
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Crime › May. 24, 2013 - 07:10AM JST
The Association of Japanese Private Railways says violence against personnel at train stations is still rife.
According to the association's data, which covers the 16…
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Crime › May. 24, 2013 - 03:41AM JST
The billionaire ex-owners of Ranbaxy denied Thursday charges by the Japanese buyers of the Indian generics giant that they hid key details about a U.S.…
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Crime › May. 23, 2013 - 04:45PM JST
A Nepali man, who was wrongfully convicted of murdering a woman and spent 15 years in a Japanese prison before being released last year, has…
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Entertainment › May. 25, 2013 - 06:20AM JST
Celebrity Norika Fujiwara, 41, this week received a special award at the Nikkei Social Initiative Awards ceremony held by the Nikkei newspaper.
This award is…
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Entertainment › May. 24, 2013 - 08:06AM JST
A trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio raised 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million) for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film…
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Entertainment › May. 24, 2013 - 06:47AM JST
Cinema audiences are migrating to television, followed by Hollywood writers, actors and directors, who look to the small screen as a place for greater artistic…
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Entertainment › May. 24, 2013 - 06:29AM JST
Blockbuster features that cost $100 million or more may grab the headlines, but the area of filmmaking that is growing fastest is documentaries, say industry…
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Entertainment › May. 23, 2013 - 12:57PM JST
Former Morning Musume singer Mari Yaguchi, 30, has apologized for having an illicit affair. Yaguchi apologized for the misdeed on her regular TV show this…
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Politics › May. 25, 2013 - 02:45PM JST
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on Friday apologized to women forcibly drafted into military brothels during World War II after his comments about them being a…
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Politics › May. 25, 2013 - 06:40AM JST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Myanmar on Friday on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, as Tokyo…
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Politics › May. 24, 2013 - 08:00PM JST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday defended his economic strategy, though the central bank chief acknowledged a need for better communication with financial markets, a…
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Politics › May. 24, 2013 - 03:50PM JST
Two elderly South Korean women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels on Friday abruptly cancelled a meeting with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto after…
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Business › May. 25, 2013 - 06:03AM JST
Hitachi Ltd on Friday announced a Global Brand Campaign that will convey a globally unified message through various media. This campaign is being run with…
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Business › May. 25, 2013 - 05:59AM JST
The World Trade Organization said Friday its dispute settlement board had agreed to a request from Japan to create a panel to examine its dispute…
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Business › May. 25, 2013 - 03:14AM JST
Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co Ltd has agreed to buy a 40% stake in Indonesia's Panin Life for about 30 billion yen, a source with direct…
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Business › May. 24, 2013 - 03:45PM JST
Tokyo shares closed 0.89% higher Friday in a rollercoaster session that came a day after the Nikkei 225 index suffered its worst one-day drop since…
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Business › May. 24, 2013 - 06:51AM JST
Nissan Motor Co Ltd will recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide including the Micra compact car, also known as the March, as a result of a…
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Technology › May. 25, 2013 - 06:22AM JST
U.S. Sen Charles Schumer urged regulators to "use extreme caution" when reviewing the proposed acquisition of No. 3 cell carrier Sprint Nextel by Japan's Softbank,…
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Technology › May. 24, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
Online retail titan Amazon announced Thursday it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to over 170 countries and territories around the world, and…
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Technology › May. 24, 2013 - 06:51AM JST
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Thursday its latest flagship Galaxy S4 had become its fastest selling smartphone to date, topping 10 million units globally less…
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Technology › May. 24, 2013 - 04:35AM JST
NTT DOCOMO Inc has acquired MCV Guam Holding Corp (MCV), the largest cable television and Internet service provider in Guam and the Commonwealth of the…
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Technology › May. 23, 2013 - 12:29PM JST
Japan's SoftBank is preparing to hand the U.S. government an unusual degree of influence over operation of Sprint Nextel, after security concerns raised by the…
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Sports › May. 25, 2013 - 02:47PM JST
Japan's J-League was a trailblazer for Asian soccer when it debuted in 1993 and now, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary, it is still pointing…
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Sports › May. 25, 2013 - 02:39PM JST
Anibal Sanchez took a no-hitter into the ninth inning before Minnesota's Joe Mauer broke it up with a one-out single in the Tigers' 6-0 victory…
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Sports › May. 25, 2013 - 01:03PM JST
Roy Hibbert scored 29 points, West knocked away two passes by LeBron James for huge turnovers in the final minute, and the Pacers evened the…
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Sports › May. 25, 2013 - 11:54AM JST
Eight playoff wins down, eight to go for Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
James Neal had a hat trick and the Penguins finished off…
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Sports › May. 25, 2013 - 06:42AM JST
A director of Japan's judo federation offered to resign on Friday over claims he sexually harassed a female judoka.
Jiro Fukuda, 76, admitted to the…
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World › May. 25, 2013 - 02:46PM JST
At least 17 children were burned to death in eastern Pakistan on Saturday when a faulty gas cylinder exploded on the bus taking them to…
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World › May. 25, 2013 - 01:30PM JST
Britain's intelligence services were under pressure Saturday to explain their knowledge of two Islamists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London, amid claims…
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World › May. 25, 2013 - 11:58AM JST
Eleven people were killed in the southern Philippines early Saturday as troops clashed with a militant group blamed for the country's deadliest terror attacks, the…
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World › May. 25, 2013 - 10:08AM JST
Toronto's embattled Mayor Rob Ford on Friday denied that he uses crack cocaine, despite allegations he was seen on a video smoking the drug.
"I…
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World › May. 25, 2013 - 07:07AM JST
President Barack Obama wants to roll back some of the most controversial aspects of the U.S. "war on terror," but efforts to alter the global…
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Lifestyle › May. 25, 2013 - 06:26AM JST
Despite being a country where firearms are incredibly rare and licenses to own them notoriously difficult to obtain, there nevertheless remain thousands of gun nuts…
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Lifestyle › May. 24, 2013 - 09:19PM JST
In a parking lot near the East River in Manhattan, Adriana Alltari gathers her courage, lifts her feet off the ground and wobbles away on…
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Lifestyle › May. 23, 2013 - 05:57AM JST
Like many people who moved to Tokyo in their youth, most of the time I’ve spent in Japanese taxis has been directly preceded by heavy…
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Lifestyle › May. 22, 2013 - 07:20AM JST
Probably like the majority of the Japanese, I wasn’t familiar with Tommy Bahama before they opened their spacious two-story store with bar and restaurant in…
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Lifestyle › May. 21, 2013 - 05:45AM JST
NHK, Japan’s public service broadcasting corporation, has created a technology which offers hope to the visually impaired by making use of the sense of touch…
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Arts & Culture › May. 25, 2013 - 06:36AM JST
Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big screen, as filmmakers seek to capture the youth market, industry…
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Arts & Culture › May. 23, 2013 - 06:15AM JST
A new app aims to bring William Shakespeare's sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front…
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Arts & Culture › May. 22, 2013 - 07:18AM JST
When your enemy is sworn to exterminate every one of you, can you -- should you -- try to cut a deal with him to…
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Arts & Culture › May. 21, 2013 - 06:24AM JST
When amateur actress Etsuko Shigemoto walks out in front of a Paris audience in an all-Japanese production this month she will forget about being 87…
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Arts & Culture › May. 19, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
Sitting in a vault in Antwerp, the 32+ carat Koi Diamond is one of the world’s most unique large gems. Big and beautiful as it…
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Kuchikomi › May. 22, 2013 - 06:55AM JST
Silence and politics don’t mix. Politics is speech – perpetual, ceaseless speech. Small wonder if the tongue slips, or if politicians blurt out more than…
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Kuchikomi › May. 19, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
Mr A, a 59-year-old employee at a trading firm, resides in Saitama Prefecture. He's the not-so-proud father of three sons, the eldest in his 30s…
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Kuchikomi › May. 14, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
On April 15 during a visit to New York, Tokyo Gov Naoki Inose remarked that as a tentative first step to transforming Tokyo into a…
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Kuchikomi › May. 11, 2013 - 06:56AM JST
“Women,” observed Arthur Schopenhauer, “are by nature enemies.” Who cares what a crusty old 19th-century misogynist philosopher said? Shukan Bunshun (May 2-9), for one. The…
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Kuchikomi › May. 07, 2013 - 06:45AM JST
In Izumi Sano City, the municipality adjacent to Kansai International Airport, the streets since last September have been patrolled by pairs of elderly men wearing…
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Executive Impact › May. 20, 2013 - 06:31AM JST
With a 53-year history in Japan, Cathay Pacific is certainly one of the best known foreign airlines. Although it has been a tough two years…
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Executive Impact › May. 13, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
Build, move, cure and power – those four words sum up the business of GE, a multinational company with 300,000 employees in more than 150…
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Executive Impact › May. 06, 2013 - 06:55AM JST
English media companies have struggled in Japan over the past few years but Custom Media, a full-service media production and design company, is proving that…
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Executive Impact › Apr. 29, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
Salesforce.com Japan has come a long way since it opened for business in a one-room office in Shibuya in 2000. Today, the company has around…
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Executive Impact › Apr. 22, 2013 - 06:00AM JST
As general manager for the Public Affairs Division of Toyota Motor Corp, Masami Doi is pretty much asked by media about every possible aspect of…
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New Products › May. 25, 2013 - 05:46AM JST
CCP Co is releasing the world’s smallest helicopter – NANO-FALCON – on June 8. It is certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s smallest…
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New Products › May. 24, 2013 - 06:53AM JST
JVC’s new powerful camcorder the GC-P100 is the sport oriented or action amateur filmmaker's dream come true. Indeed, thanks to JVC’s Falcon Bird technology, the…
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New Products › May. 23, 2013 - 06:07AM JST
Sharp has unveiled two models of 4K compliant LCD TVs: AQUOS UD1 – 70 inch and AQUOS UD1 – 60 inch. The 70 inch will…
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New Products › May. 22, 2013 - 05:35AM JST
Pioneer is releasing Blu-ray disk player BDP-160 with Wi-Fi Direct functionality that allows wireless connections to smart devices without a Wi-Fi environment.
BDP-160 also has…
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New Products › May. 21, 2013 - 06:24AM JST
Online shopping site FELISSIMO has started accepting orders for canned bread with the flavor of local specialties of the six prefectures in the Tohoku area.…
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Travel › May. 25, 2013 - 06:49AM JST
For being a country so heavily steeped in traditional culture, Japan sure does love to fiddle with an amalgamation of spiritual folklore. Just listen to…
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Travel › May. 25, 2013 - 06:39AM JST
North Korea's authorities have opened the border town of Sinuiju to Western tourists, Chinese-based travel agencies said, despite international tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear test in…
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Travel › May. 24, 2013 - 07:00AM JST
The cruise industry is adopting a passenger bill of rights that guarantees the "safety, comfort and care" of guests.
The bill of rights promises, among…
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Travel › May. 24, 2013 - 06:54AM JST
Every year, seven to eight million foreigners make the trip to Japan. But where do they go sightseeing? And, more importantly, do these places come…
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Travel › May. 22, 2013 - 05:54AM JST
Hear the word museum and odds are you conjure up an image of portrait halls and sculpture gardens - the traditional home of traditional art.…
