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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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Japan's Scientists Fight Proposed Budget Cuts

Japan's Scientists Fight Proposed Budget Cuts Nothing rouses a research community like a threat to its funding, as could be seen this week here in Japan after a task force recommended deep cuts (subs req) in the Ministry of...

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Attack Girls' Swim Team vs. the Undead

Skip It The Movie: Attack Girls' Swim Team vs. the Undead sounds like it is a zany, off kilter Japanese zombie movie. Hiding under this inviting exterior, though, is a soft core porn film with a limp zombie framework thrown up...

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UPDATE 2-Japan Oct copper cable shipments -14.3 pct yr/yr

TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Japanese copper wire and cable shipments for October fell 14.3 percent from a year earlier, an industry body said on Friday, as the slow pace of economic recovery continued to sap demand. Shipments...

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PREVIEW-High Q1 aluminium premium could slow Japan buying

By Miho Yoshikawa TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Japanese buyers accepted premiums of $115-$120 per tonne for delivery in October-December, as sellers profited from worries about low stockpiles at Japanese ports and tightly held...

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Dollar slips to 6-week low in Tokyo on selling by exporters+

TOKYO, Nov. 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The U.S. dollar slipped to a six-week low in the upper 88 yen range Friday in Tokyo as Japanese exporters sold the dollar ahead of a three-day weekend in Japan, while other market participants...

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Fabrication and Photovoltaic Measurements of Surface Nanostructure of AlGaInN-Based Photodetector

Authors: Jing Zhang, Yoshiki Naoi, Shiro Sakai, Atsuyuki Fukano, Satoru Tanaka The photovoltage from a surface nanostructure photodetector was measured at wavelengths of 410 and 388 nm as a function of incident angle....

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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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Detailed Structural Analyses of KOH Activated Carbon from Waste Coffee Beans

Authors: Tomokazu Takahata, Ikumi Toda, Hiroki Ono, Shigeo Ohshio, Hiroki Akasaka, Syuji Himeno, Toshinori Kokubu, Hidetoshi Saitoh The relationship of the detailed structural change of KOH activated carbon and hydrogen storage...

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Organic Solvent-Free Fluorescence Confocal Imaging of Living Cells Using Pure Nanocrystal Forms...

Authors: Koichi Baba, Hitoshi Kasai, Akito Masuhara, Hidetoshi Oikawa, Hachiro Nakanishi In this paper we describe an organic solvent-free method for the in vitro fluorescence confocal imaging of living cells using nanocrystals...

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