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  • Now smartwatch to test your sobriety

    A Japanese watchmaker has launched a smartwatch that not only tests sobriety with a built-in game, but tests blood alcohol level with a breathalyser built into its side. Tokyoflash's Kisai Intoxicated watch has a breathalyser hidden beneath what looks like a watch dial and can be used to rate the wearer's blood alcohol level from .001 per cent to as high as .2 per cent, the Daily Telegraph ...

  • 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 ...

  • Japan ruling party aims to cut corporate tax to revive economy

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party vowed on Thursday to cut Japan's corporate tax rate to revitalize the world's third biggest economy, in hopes of winning an upper house poll in July and cementing its grip on power.The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) made the pledge in an election campaign platform issued a week after investors were disappointed by Abe's ...

  • Japan’s Ruling LDP Promises ‘Bold’ Tax Breaks for Investment

    Democratic Party will enact "bold" tax breaks for corporate investment, according to a policy platform unveiled today ahead of an upper house election that opinion polls suggest it will win. "Japan's corporate taxes are extremely high in comparison with other countries," Sanae Takaichi, chairwoman of the party's Policy Research Council, told reporters. "I ...

  • 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 ...

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Cookie's Fortune

"You know how come I know he didn't do it?" says Lester Boyle (Ned Beatty), a deputy police officer in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the small town turned upside down at the heart of Robert Altman's new film, "Cookie's Fortune." "Because I fished with him." That's the kind of town Holly Springs is--the kind where a police officer can defend his friend against murder charges, even though there's pil ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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