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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 ...

  • Far-right Japan Restoration Party defends wartime abuse of “comfort women”

    Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, a leader of the far-right Japan Restoration Party (JRP), set off a firestorm in Asia and within Japan last week, by declaring that the Japanese army's policy of keeping thousands of women as sex slaves throughout Asia during World War II was necessary. At a May 13 press conference, Hashimoto declared: "If you want them [troops fighting a war] to have a rest ...

  • Japanese Investors Sell Foreign Bonds

    Japanese investors sold 804.4 billion yen ($7.8 billion) worth of foreign bonds last week after three straight weeks of net buying, as they took advantage of the soft yen to repatriate overseas ...

  • Nikkei slumps in afternoon trade

    (8 mins ago) Tokyo shares plunged more than three percent in early Thursday afternoon trade as investors sold positions on weak Chinese data to lock in profits on recent rapid gains. The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange lost 3.20 percent or 500.04 points to 15,127.22 at one point before narrowing its loss to 2.15 percent by 0400 GMT, AFP reports. The plunge came after HSBC said ...

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Robinsin Crusoe on Mars [DVD]

Robinsin Crusoe on Mars [DVD]

Because it is the closet planet to Earth, Mars has always held a special attraction to both scientists and science-fiction writers. The red planet is so close and yet so far, and it has long captured the imaginations of those who would dare to ruminate on what lies bey ... ...

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  • 80-year-old Japanese man becomes the oldest to climb Mount Everest

    May 22, 2013: 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier Yuichiro Miura, right, and his son, Gota pose at their South Col camp at 26,247 feet before their departure for Camp 5 during their attempt to scale the summit of Mount ...

  • Japans wartime brothels were wrong says 91-year-old veteran

    1 of 2. 91-year-old former Japanese army medic Masayoshi Matsumoto points at a photograph of himself taken in the 1940s, during an interview with Reuters at his daughter's house in Sagamihara, south of Tokyo May 22, ...

  • Britain told U.S. in early 1941 Japan might be preparing for war

    The prospect of a clash over defense policy between South Korea's new president and the U.S. has been diminished by North Korea's own ham-fisted ...

  • U.S. admits drone strikes have killed four Americans

    Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped ';liberate'; a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...

  • Brutal meat cleaver murder in London blamed on radical Islam

    LONDON - Two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one of them then went on video to explain the crime, shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took them into custody. The brutal daylight attack rocked the city ...

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