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Sports › Ando 2nd after NHK Trophy short program

Saturday 07th November, 05:12 AM JST NAGANO — Miki Ando came in second in the women’s short program at the NHK Trophy, the fourth event of the Grand Prix series, on Friday. Reigning world bronze medalist Ando, who won the...

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JR East to slash holiday fares

East Japan Railway Co. will offer discounts of up to 49 percent for New Year's travelers to compete with the 1,000-yen flat-rate expressway tolls. The offer will be the first sweeping discount by JR East for a busy season such...

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No. of flu patients to top 6 million mark soon in Japan+

TOKYO, Nov. 6 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The cumulative number of people infected with influenza, mostly the new H1N1 strain of influenza A, since early July reached an estimated 5.85 million as of last Sunday and is poised to top the 6...

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Giant leap for Japanese in World Series

– When Hideki Matsui lifted up the trophy for the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) award, it was a moment felt deeply by Masanori Murakami. Murakami was the first Japanese player brought in t...

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Relationships between falls, spinal curvature, spinal mobility and back extensor strength in...

Spinal mobility and back extensor strength (BES) are important in determining quality of life (QOL) for elderly people. However, the impact of spinal factors on falls remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to clarify...

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Ocera Therapeutics Presents Clinical Data Demonstrating AST-120 Relieves Pruritus in Patients...

AST-120 Also Shown to Reduce Ammonia and Brain Swelling in Rat Model of Cirrhosis BOSTON, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that AST-120 (spherical carbon adsorbent) was shown to reduce the...

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Soil creates life with 'death jazz'

"The Lounge Lizards and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in a Japanese brothel," is how acclaimed U.K. DJ and record-label owner Gilles Peterson has described funky jazz sextuplet Soil & "Pimp" Sessions. Formed around 2001 by...

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PARO Robots Announces Launch of Sales and Delivery in the U.S.

Posted on: Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 18:05 CST CHICAGO, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- PARO Robots U.S. Inc. and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) have announced that order fulfillment and delivery of the therapeutic...

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A glimpse of the future: Robots aid Japan's elderly residents

TOKYO — It looks like a scene from Robocop or one of the Terminator movies: A human steps into a sleek robot suit and is miraculously transformed, suddenly capable of astonishing feats of strength. So much of the technology...

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THE RISE OF JAPAN’S ‘GIRLIE MAN’ GENERATION

Forget the salarymen, Japan’s new ‘herbivore’ generation of males believe that life is far more important than work BY PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON The London Times Yasuo Takeuchi makes an improbable radical. Skinny, wearing jeans,...

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