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Crime › Spanish man convicted of drug smuggling in lay jury trial

Saturday 21st November, 05:49 AM JST CHIBA — A Spanish man was given a 10-year prison term and a 5 million yen fine in a lay jury trial Friday for smuggling illegal stimulants to Japan in May, despite his plea of being...

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Thinker Pose

Dobie Gillis at the beginning of each episode of and subverted in Me and My Little Brain, the third book in (The bread statue made by Team Japan. Kawachi Kyousuke covered in bread by Team Japan after he broke the bread statue...

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Slowly, secret U.S. nuke deals come to light

OSAKA — Decades since Washington and Tokyo reportedly crafted secret agreements to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in Japanese territory, declassified documents from the U.S. detailing its nuclear presence in Okinawa and elsewhere...

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Spotting evidence of directed percolation

A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population or how water soaks...

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OYAMA TADASHI's Art Works Exhibition 2009

OYAMA TADASHI's Art Works Exhibition 2009The Japanese artist Oyama Tadashi keeps searching the visual aesthetics which can represent the contemporary art of East Asia. So he travels between China, Japan and Korea to look for...

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U.S. nuclear arms in Japan: a firsthand account

Dear Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, In the fall of 1980 I was assigned as a civilian university professor to provide Japanese language instruction to the officers and men of the USS Knox (FF-1052), a destroyer home-ported in...

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Japan's GDP jumps, but slowdown expected

Car and electronics subsidies have helped boost parts of the Japanese economy this quarter. (AFP: Kazuhiro Nogi, file photo) Japan's economy grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the third quarter, as Government...

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Increase of poisoning by the tropical mushrooms in Japan in recent years. - Yokoyama K, Gonmori K.

A tropical poisonous mushroom, Chlorophyllum molybdites, invaded into Japan in recent years, and distributed in south-eastern and central part of Japan including 27 Prefectures in 2009; Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tokyo...

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Business › Nissan launches production of new Fuga luxury sedan

Friday 13th November, 03:52 AM JST TOKYO — Nissan Motor Co held a ceremony on Thursday at its plant in Tochigi Prefecture to launch full production of its new Fuga luxury sedan ahead of the car’s sale scheduled to start Nov 19....

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Natural predators enlisted as bug-busters

BY TAKESHI AMANO, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Plagued by insects that are increasingly resistant to pesticides, farmers across Japan are enlisting the help of creatures that love nothing better than to munch on pesky bugs. According to...

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