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  • US Japan South Korea urge meaningful denuclearisation

    The US, Japan and South Korea Wednesday called for "meaningful" steps on denuclearisation by Pyongyang in exchange for better ties with them, Xinhua reported. After their envoys concluded a trilateral meeting here on issues related to North Korea, the three countries said: "We agreed a path is open for the DPRK (North Korea) toward improved relations with the United States, Japan and the ROK ...

  • Radioactive element found in groundwater near Japan n-plant

    High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater near the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the plant operator said Wednesday. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said tests showed Strontium-90 was present at 30 times the legal rate, BBC reported. The radioactive isotope tritium was also detected at elevated levels. The nuclear plant was crippled by ...

  • 5 children swept out to sea in Miyazaki one drowns

    Police said that the five children were swimming at Isagahama beach at around 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Fuji TV reported that the beach was not open for swimming and the waves were higher than usual due to an approaching typhoon. According to police, Mana Inadome and a friend were swept out to sea and three junior-high students who tried to help them were also caught in the ...

  • Sony Need more time to study entertainment business spin-off

    Sony needs more time to study a key proposal from a US hedge fund to spin off a part of its entertainment unit as a way to propel its fledgling revival, the chief executive told shareholders on ...

  • Japans ruling party pledges 2 growth in election platform

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party decided Thursday on a campaign platform for next month's upper house election, pledging to achieve an average real 2 percent economic growth over the next decade with a set of policy ...

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Monsoon Wedding [DVD]

Monsoon Wedding [DVD]

For anyone who has ever seen a Hollywood movie about an impending wedding, there wont be a great deal of surprise in Mira Nairs Monsoon Wedding except for the fact that it takes place in Delhi and the dialogue is spoken in a breathless mixture of English and Hindi and Punja ... ...

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  • Tokyo stocks plunge on Bernankes remarks

    Stock prices in Tokyo fell on Thursday after US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed may trim its bond-buying program later this ...

  • Italy edge spirited Japan to move into semis

    Second-half substitute Sebastian Giovinco scored a dramatic 86th-minute winner here on Wednesday as Italy defeated Japan 4-3 in a pulsating Confederations Cup Group A ...

  • AIRSHOW-Airbus sales chief expects to win Japanese customer

    PARIS, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:11am EDT PARIS, June 20 (Reuters) - Airbus' sales chief expects to win orders from a major Japanese airline at some point in the future, he told the Paris Airshow on Thursday. "It is just a matter of time before Japan Airlines or All Nippon Airways fly Airbus wide-body aircraft," John Leahy told a news conference at the ...

  • India places its Asian bet on Japan

    By Peter Lee In a dismaying week for the People's Republic of China (PRC), India turned away from it, and gave further signals that it is ready to move beyond the narrative of Japanese World War II aggression that has informed China's Asian diplomacy and anchored the US presence in Asia for over half a century in favor of a view of Japan as a leading and laudable security actor in ...

  • Sony chief eyes spin-off from all sorts of angles

    TOKYO (AFP) - The head of Sony told shareholders Thursday the company's board was studying from "all sorts of angles" a proposed plan to spin off part of its profitable entertainment arm, but said it would not be rushed into a decision.US billionaire Daniel Loeb, who says his hedge fund Third Point has amassed the largest stake in Sony, last month made the call to hive off and ...

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