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National › Japanese death toll in Busan shooting range fire rises to 10

Saturday 28th November, 05:34 AM JST SEOUL — Two Japanese men badly burned in a fire at an indoor shooting range in the South Korean city of Busan died Friday at a local hospital, bringing the death toll from the blaze to 15,...

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Seven Samurai

alt title(s): The Seven Samurai "This is the nature of war. By protecting others, you save yourselves." - Kambei Shimada Seven Samurai was a 1954 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring his longtime collaborator...

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Electromechanical Simulation of Switching Characteristics for Nanoelectromechanical Memory

Authors: Tasuku Nagami, Yoshishige Tsuchiya, Shinichi Saito, Tadashi Arai, Toshikazu Shimada, Hiroshi Mizuta, Shunri Oda The static switching properties and readout characteristics of proposed high-speed and nonvolatile...

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Direct Observation of Gas Phase Nucleation during Physical Vapor Transport Growth of Organic...

Authors: Sawako Miyamoto, Toshihiro Shimada, Manabu Ohtomo, Akira Chikamatsu, Tetsuya Hasegawa We observed the physical vapor transport growth of tetracene (C_{18}H_{12}) using a transparent furnace. We found that free-standing...

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Izawa to take over at Japan Post Bank

The Japan Post group plans to name Yoshiyuki Izawa, executive vice president of Mitsui & Co., as president of Japan Post Bank Co. to replace Shokichi Takagi, sources said Wednesday. The group had... Read more . . .

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Ex-trading house exec Shimada to head Japan Post Bank

The Japan Post group has decided to name Seiichi Shimada, head of the Japan Housing Finance Agency, as president of Japan Post Bank Co. and Shinichi Nabekura, a former bureaucrat, as president of Japan Post Service Co., sources...

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Busan gun range fire likely killed eight Japanese

BUSAN, South Korea — Eight of the 10 people killed by a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, were likely Japanese, local fire officials said Sunday. Eleven Japanese were using the shooting range Saturday when...

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Okinawans Grow Impatient With Dashed Hopes on U.S. Base

GINOWAN, Japan -- Okinawans like Zenji Shimada, who have spent most of their lives under the thudding of helicopters from a busy American air base, are accustomed to disappointment. Decades of complaints about the base here and...

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Blog - How To Swim Through Sand

Sand behaves like a fluid but also like a solid. So how can some lizards swim through it? The sand skink, Plestiodon reynoldsi, is famous for its ability to swim through sand at depths of up to 10 centimetres. That's strange...

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Copenhagen climate treaty in danger

Barcelona, Spain (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 - Experts are increasingly doubtful that the Copenhagen climate-change conference can produce a binding climate treaty, less than a month before the U.N.-mandated meeting is due to start.

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