Kanagawa Prefecture

No Butts About it: DoD Wants You to Quit

Stars and Stripes|by Charlie Reed CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Military health workers were full of gimmicks for the 2009 Great American Smokeout, an American Cancer Society campaign supported by bases around the world. “The military...

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As separation rates plummet, military getting more selective

By Erik Slavin, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, November 22, 2009 YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Fewer servicemembers are retiring or leaving the military than at any time in the past five years, according to Defense...

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Osaka-based Consultancy Forms A Network Giving Entrepreneurs Many Cost-Savings & Various Supports

Tokyo-, Osaka- and Shanghai-based business consultancy providing support for start-up companies, Akinai Research Institute[J] just introduced a new program encouraging entrepreneurs in terms of financial, personnel and material...

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Couple's love story started in Africa

Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger. Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, was there to help with vaccination activities, using her experience as a... Read more . . .

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Technology › Panasonic begins delivery of P-01B handsets to DoCoMo

Saturday 21st November, 03:47 AM JST YOKOHAMA — Panasonic Mobile Communications Co on Friday began shipment of its docomo PRIME series P-01B mobile phones to NTT DoCoMo Inc. The P-01B adopts Panasonic’s unique style that allows...

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Spaniard denies being drug smuggler; lay judges hand him 10 years

CHIBA (Kyodo) A Spanish man was sentenced to 10 years and fined ¥5 million in a lay judge trial Friday for smuggling illegal stimulants into Japan in May. He had pleaded innocent. Orquin Mompo Fernando, 38, was the second...

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Sony plans online service to be up next year, connect gadgets, build brand loyalty

TOKYO - Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday. Executive Vic...

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Ip Man

's eponymous master. Foshan in 1930s China is a place renowned for the number of martial arts schools in it, with the exception of the titular hero who wishes not to take in any disciples. When a troupe of upstart Northeners...

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Retired Col. George Caldwell dies

Published: Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 9:07 p.m. MST Retired Col. George M. Caldwell died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, at the age of 77. He served in the Utah Air National Guard from 1953 to 1974. He was commander of Air Services during...

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Life Sciences: Reports outline life sciences study findings from RIKEN Yokohama Institute

Current study results from the report, 'TagDust--a program to eliminate artifacts from next generation sequencing data,' have been published. "Next-generation parallel sequencing technologies produce large quantities of short...

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