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  • April sees Japan trade deficit jump to 879.9bn yen April sees Japan trade deficit jump to 879.9bn yen

    TOKYO - Japan's trade deficit rose substantially more than expected in the month April to 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion), which is a 70% jump over the trade deficit during the corresponding month a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.. The deficit, for the tenth consecutive month, was wider than what many economists had forecast. A survey from the Nikkei business daily ...

  • UN agency to open nuclear emergency preparedness centre in Fukushima UN agency to open nuclear emergency preparedness centre in Fukushima

    22 May 2013 150 Experts from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are heading to Japan to launch an emergency preparedness and response centre in Fukushima, the coastal city devastated two years ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami set off meltdowns at a nuclear power plant. The IAEA, supported by the Government of Japan, will designate a new Response and ...

  • Japan ponders direct talks with Pyongyang

    /enpproperty--> Japan is considering direct talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the government said on Wednesday, adding momentum to the cause after a top level aide to the prime minister made a surprise trip to Pyongyang. Bilateral talks are on the table as Tokyo seeks to salve the running sore of abductions of its nationals by DPRK spies in the 1970s and ...

  • Nikkei set to pull back from 5-12-year highs on Bernanke remarks

    TOKYO, May 23 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average is expected to retreat from a 5-1/2-year high on Thursday after U.S. Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke suggested the central bank could scale back stimulus in coming months. The Nikkei is likely to trade between 15,550 and 15,700, strategists said, while Nikkei futures in Chicago closed at 15,640 on Wednesday, down 0.2 percent from the Osaka ...

  • CAROL LINK Exquisite Japanese maples provide beauty colors

    CAROL LINK | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES This planting bed in the walking garden on the slope out front contains three Japanese maples: a green-foliaged tree on each end and a small red laceleaf tree in the middle. In this area of the garden, large shade trees tower over the planting beds, helping to provide afternoon shade for the group of smaller ...

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Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty might best be seen as Jim Carrey atoning for what some perceived to be his sin of trying to be a serious actor in recent years. His emoting as a serious actor worked well enough in Peter Weirs The Truman Show (1998), which allowed Carrey to expand his range without fully sacrificing all of the comedy that his fans so fervently adore. In that film, he morphed quite sea ... ...

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  • Congressman Huelskamp discusses Kansas beef with Japanese ambassador

    Congressman Tim Huelskamp, R-KS, was Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae’s guest at the residence of the ambassador of Japan. Japan recently raised the age cap on its beef imports from 20 months of age to 30 months. The U.S. Meat Export Federation projects this change will increase U.S. beef exports to Japan by 45 percent in 2013. Huelskamp issued the following statement: ';I’m ...

  • Nuclear regulators acknowledge fault below Tsuruga reactor is active

    The Nuclear Regulation Authority accepted on Wednesday an assessment that a reactor at the Tsuruga plant in western Japan is sitting above an active fault, making it increasingly difficult for the facility to resume ...

  • Ama divers seek cultural designation

    Ama female divers from the Toba-Shima area have formed a group to preserve their traditions, as part of a bid by the Mie prefectural government to have the divers declared a national cultural property and UNESCO intangible cultural heritage ...

  • Skytree celebrates 1 year

    During the past year, 6.38 million people visited the landmark, much higher than the 5.4 million predicted at the time of the opening. The total number of visitors to Tokyo Skytree and its neighboring Tokyo Solamachi commercial facility was 50.8 million, about 60 percent higher than the initial prediction of 32 million. The launch of the tower was not without its hitches. On opening day, some ...

  • Sumo Hakuho Kisenosato win to keep title within reach

    Yokozuna Hakuho dispensed with Kotooshu, and Kisenosato did a hatchet job on Aran to improve to 11-0 with four days remaining at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on ...

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