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Sony has a new message for Nintendo Wii gamers: Come join us. The maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled on Thursday its highly anticipated motion-base...
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The late French President Charles de Gaulle once labeled a Japanese prime minister a "transistor salesman." Now Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is hawki...
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The Japan Coast Guard on Thursday obtained an arrest warrant for a member of antiwhaling group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on suspicion of t...
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, pulled her under water, an...
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Different societies allow their news media different roles. In most countries the media is subordinated to power, whether of the government or the rul...
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The loud dispute over the future of the U.S. Marine Air Station at Futenma, Okinawa, is puzzling. Even U.S. officialdom agrees that this base causes e...
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ACCRA (Kyodo) Crown Prince Naruhito attended a memorial symposium in the Ghanaian capital Tuesday held to present an award named after Japanese bacter...
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Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Wednesday he does not think the United States will rearm its attack subs with nuclear Tomahawk cruise missiles. ...
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Eight crested ibises were killed and two critically injured at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, attacke...
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Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima conveyed his opposition Wednesday to a proposed Nago onshore relocation plan for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma i...
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OSAKA (Kyodo) Major information services provider CSK Holdings Corp. has entered the final phase of talks with Iwai Securities Co. to sell its subsidi...
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The Tokyo and Bucharest chambers of commerce agreed to strengthen economic cooperation Wednesday, with Romanian President Traian Basescu attending a c...
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HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) Hiroshima and Nagasaki reacted fiercely Tuesday to a government-appointed panel's confirmation of secret Japan-U.S. pacts, including...
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Fidea Holdings Co., a Sendai-based banking group, and another regional lender, Miyazaki Taiyo Bank, have applied for public cash infusions with the Fi...
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Fujitsu Ltd. has drawn renewed calls from investors to shed more light on the departure of former President Kuniaki Nozoe after the Tokyo Stock Exchan...
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Three out of 27 top government leaders polled claimed they knew Japan and the United States had secret pacts covering nuclear arms and other sensitive...
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OSAKA (Kyodo) Kansai International Airport Co. plans to ask the government to help it trim at least ¥800 billion of its interest-bearing debts totali...
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Machinery orders slipped in January after the biggest jump since 2000, government data showed Wednesday, indicating a subdued appetite among the natio...
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Toyota Motor Corp. has fallen to 13th place from seventh in terms of popularity among science and engineering students, dropping out of the top 10 mos...
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KANAZAWA, Ishikawa Pref. (Kyodo) An appeals court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that rejected demands by wartime forced laborers from China th...
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