Nagano Prefecture

Ozawa looming as 'shadow shogun'

The Democratic Party of Japan's oldest lawmaker recently had a few bitter words for his old friend, DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. Speaking in Fukuoka earlier this month, Kozo Watabe... Read more . . .

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US and Japan at odds over bases

IN spite of Barack Obama's soothing manner in Japan, the argument over restructuring US military forces continues to go badly, stressing the Americans' most important relationship in the region. The likelihood is Tokyo will be...

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Fun's up on the North Shore

When the waves get big, it's where you want to be It's the start of the North Shore's winter surf season, with huge, often monstrous swells luring the brave and the curious to this seven-mile stretch of some of the world's...

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Earl M. Finch Tribute to Windward Oahu KIAs in World War II

Back in February 2009, on a sightseeing trip with my mother-in-law, I stopped at Castle Junction in Kane‘ohe, Hawai‘i, to photograph the Kane‘ohe Ranch Building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Nearby was...

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Magnetocaloric Effect, Specific Heat, and Entropy of Iron-Substituted Gadolinium Gallium Garnets...

Authors: Koichi Matsumoto, Ayumi Matsuzaki, Koji Kamiya, Takenori Numazawa A series of Gd_{3}(Ga_{1-x}Fe_{x})_{5}O_{12} (GGIG) compounds for magnetic refrigerants were characterized by magnetization and specific heat...

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Shape Control and Roughness Reduction of SiC Trenches by High-Temperature Annealing

Authors: Yasuyuki Kawada, Takeshi Tawara, Shun-ichi Nakamura, Tae Tamori, Noriyuki Iwamuro The high-temperature annealing of SiC trenches has been investigated for improving the shape of trenches and the smoothness of trench...

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Markedly Different Rise and Fall Times in Transient Electroluminescence of...

Authors: Akihiko Teramura, Yutaka Nakano, Yoshihiko Sakuma, Yoshiaki Satoh, Shuuji Kojima, Kenichi Kasahara, Takeo Ohtsuka, Nobuhito Miura The transient electroluminescence of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with...

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China advierte a EE.UU. contra el proteccionismo “en todas sus formas”

El presidente chino, Hu Jintao, instó a EE.UU. a rechazar el proteccionismo “en todas sus formas” durante la visita a Pekín de su homólogo estadounidense, Barack Obama, quien abordó con su anfitrión la cotización de la divisa...

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DPJ rams debt relief bill through committee

A bill aimed at encouraging lenders to freeze debt repayments for small and midsize companies was set to clear the Lower House late Thursday night after the ruling bloc rammed it through a Diet committee in the first such power...

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Mitsubishi Chemical to absorb rayon firm

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. said Thursday it will turn major synthetic fiber maker Mitsubishi Rayon Co. into a wholly owned company by March in a deal that could be worth around ¥200 billion. The move will reunite the...

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