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  • Japan PMs residence not haunted Government

    The Japanese government has denied rumours which said the prime minister's official residence was haunted. The denial came after a query by an opposition lawmaker, who wanted to know if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had not yet moved into his official residence, five months after coming to power, because of rumours that the building was haunted by the ghosts of young military officers who died ...

  • Japanese man becomes oldest person to climb Everest at 80

    A former extreme skier became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest on Thursday at the age of 80. Japanese Yuichiro Miura also conquered the 29,028ft peak at 70 and 75, the Mirror reported. But his record may not last, his old rival Min Bahadur Sherchan, 81, is hot on his heels. Miura said that he never imagined he could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. He first broke the ...

  • Video Market View Is the Bank of Japans message to the markets getting lost

    The Globe and Mail's Jacqueline Nelson takes a closer look at recent volatility in Asia and the Bank of Japan's efforts to assure investors over rising bond ...

  • Japanese World Championship Team Impresses on Day One of Japan Open

    KANAGAWA, Japan, May 24. THE first day of the Japan open long course competition saw members of the country's world championship swim team impress in their first races since being added to the world team roster.With a world-leading 58.84 to her credit from the world championship trials in April, Aya Terakawa cruised to the win in the women's 100 back today with a 59.50. Sayaka Akase ...

  • Asian Stocks End Mixed Nikkei Rises After Turbulent Trading

    Asian stocks traded mixed on Friday, with extreme volatility in Japanese shares keeping investors nervous. Japan's Nikkei index swung over 1,000 points for a second day in a row before ending notably higher on optimism over earnings growth and ...

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Le Cercle Rouge [DVD]

Le Cercle Rouge [DVD]

Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle) was the second-to-last of Jean-Pierre Melvilles 13 films. Always a fiercely independent artist who worked as his own producer largely outside of the French studio system (he was one a handful of French directors who had his own studio), Melville crafted a significant body of films over a little more than two decades, and he will always be remembered ... ...

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  • Japanese judo rocked again by sexual harrassment scandal

    May 24 - The All Japan Judo Federation (AJJF) is facing another scandal with director Jiro Fukuda admitting to sexually harassing an unnamed female judoka, just months after its funding was cut by the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) when coaches were found to be physically abusing female judokas. The 76-year-old, who has offered his resignation, admitted to forcibly hugging and attempting to ...

  • Ex-boyfriend intrudes stabs woman

    YOKOHAMA - A 21-year-old woman was stabbed by her ex-boyfriend Friday at her apartment in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, where she lives with her current boyfriend, police said. The 25-year-old boyfriend called police around 9:20 a.m. saying, ';My girlfriend has been stabbed by a guy with a knife.'; The man told police that his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend came to their residence, ...

  • Africa’s Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda’s tragic story

    Paul Kagame is angrier than I’ve ever seen him. Rwanda’s president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he’s crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, the rebel leader whose army put a stop to the 1994 genocide of 800,0000 Tutsis. But now even friends are ...

  • Panel sets telecommuting target

    A government panel set out goals Friday to up telecommuting. The number of companies with telecommuting systems designed for child-care and other employees is expected to triple by 2020 from some 4,000 in fiscal 2012, which ended in March, according to the information technology promotion strategy adopted by the panel. The panel, known as the IT Strategic Headquarters, also proposed that the ...

  • Care urged for split families when Japan joins Hague pact

    Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...

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