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  • Japan sinks Singapore at Sudirman Cup

    Japan showed all-round strength by sweeping aside Singapore 5-0 in their group match at the Sudirman Cup here Monday. Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa made it 1-0 for Japan in the men's doubles by beating Chrisnanta Danny Bawa and Terry Zhao 21-7, 21-18. World No.24 Gu Juan of Singapore was beaten by No.10 Minatsu Mitani at 21-10, 21-19 in women's singles while in men's singles, Derek Wong ...

  • Japan Govt. Says Economy Picking up Moderately

    (MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Japan's government has upgraded its assessment of the Japanese economy for first time in two months, citing accelerating exports and the weakened yen. The Japanese Cabinet Office said in its monthly economic report for May that Japan's economy is picking up slowly. Last month, it said the economy was showing signs of recovery but still had some weak spots, ...

  • Sony Releases PS4 Teaser Trailer As It Battles Microsoft For Gamers Attention

    has released a blurry teaser trailer for its Playstation 4 just one day ahead of its rival's big Xbox reveal. There are a lot of closeups and difficult-to-decipher geometry, but the intent here is clear -- Sony is going to show us what the PS4 actually looks like. The company got some flack for holding its big reveal in February without actually revealing the console, and now it's ...

  • Ian Reifowitz Hello Republicans Japan Switches to Stimulus Gets Growth Europe Sticks With Austerity Stays in Recession

    right now in Japan and in Europe. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has embarked on aggressive measures to stimulate Japan's long-moribund economy since he took office in December, and the result so far has been strong growth -- and, perhaps, liftoff after a triple-dip recession. Europe, on the other hand, remains mired in the muck of austerity and economic contraction. To briefly recap ...

  • Avoid excuses man up Obama tells black graduates

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to ';transform the way we think about manhood,'; urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities. Delivering a commencement address at the all-male private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Obama ...

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Le bonheur [DVD]

Le bonheur [DVD]

Much has been made about how shocking Le bonheur (Happiness) was to audiences when it first screened in 1965. However, shocking is not the right word because that implies something sudden and aggressive--an assault on the eyes and the sensibility in the vein of Un chien anda ... ...

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  • New Delhi cracks down on foreign-funded NGOs

    ';Outsider art'; is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, ';Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,'; an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...

  • Nissan Mitsubishi kick off joint minicar production

    ';I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...

  • Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water

    Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...

  • Economic assessment raised as weak yen fuels exports

    Facts and figures: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and members of his Cabinet attend a ministerial meeting on the government's monthly economic report at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday. | ...

  • Tornadoes level homes in Oklahoma one dead

    Close for comfort: Jerry Dirks (right) hugs a friend after a tornado hit her home just south of Carney, Oklahoma, on Sunday. Dirks had taken refuge in her cellar at the time the tornado hit. | ...

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