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Sports › Mizohata to resign as president of debt-ridden Oita

Saturday 21st November, 04:48 AM JST OITA — Hiroshi Mizohata said Friday he will resign as club president of debt-ridden J-League side Oita Trinita. Relegated Oita were on the verge of bankruptcy before securing earlier this...

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National › Number of flu cases in Japan estimated at over 9 mil

Saturday 21st November, 06:53 AM JST TOKYO — The number of people in Japan who have contracted influenza since early July, most of whom are believed to have been infected with the H1N1 virus, is estimated to have reached 9.02...

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Five Arrows defeat HeatDevils

Balanced scoring lifted the host Takamatsu Five Arrows to a 93-86 win over the Oita HeatDevils on Friday. Michael Gardener scored a team-high 22 points and handed out nine assists as the Five Arrows improved to 3-10 in the...

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Robotic Samurai will guard you from the Ninjas

Robot Square in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka is place where the future meets with the past. What you see above is Kuroda a 57 cms tall robot created by expert puppeteer Yasuhiro Usuki and the clothing is designed by...

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Tokyo, Saitama split weekend series

The tension was thick enough to cut with a knife at Tokorozawa Municipal Gymnasium Sunday as the Saitama Broncos pressed to stretch a win streak to six games, facing the Tokyo Apache, a team the Broncos had defeated 76-72 on...

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UPDATE 1-Soccer-Japanese club Oita bailed out by J-League

League lends Kyushu-based club 600 million yen * Tokyo Verdy given green light to play in 2010 (Adds Verdy details, background) TOKYO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Debt-ridden Japanese club Oita Trinita have been bailed out by the...

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Genealogy Query - BEPPU

I am looking for my birth mother and father, or any siblings I have. I was born November 7, 1991 in Fukuoka, Japan. I am Japanese and I have brown eyes and brown-black hair. I was adopted after birth, father was not present at...

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Guangzhou Special: Party officials vow to find new 'sister' cities

Officials in Guangzhou have announced plans to seek out new global partner cities as a key route to accelerate the city's international expansion policy. Reporting on policies outlined by Zhu Xiaodan, the party secretary of...

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Music college orchestras offer a lot of bang for the buck

BY MAKITO NODA, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The 2009 Festival of Music University Orchestras, the first of what is planned to be an annual event, will present four concerts in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district and Kawasaki. The event, which...

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Sony’s PlayStation visionary launches a new company

Ken Kutaragi, father of Sony’s PlayStation business, has launched a new Japanese startup called Cyber Ai Entertainment. The name “ai” is a combination of the Japanese word for “love” and a pun on the English word “eye.” A board...

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