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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 ...

  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z finally hits the shelves

    unveiled the Xperia Tablet Z , the Japanese maker announced that the fondleslab is now finally available to purchase worldwide through online and brick and mortar stores. Despite the fact that the Xperia Tablet Z hits the shelves later ...

  • Soccer-Fit again Nagatomo ready to return for Japan

    Inter Milan 's 5-2 home defeat to Udinese on Sunday and said he was fit again to play the full 90 minutes. "The knee is fine," Nagatomo was quoted as saying by Japan's Kyodo news agency. "I can play 90 minutes without any problems and I've had no setbacks in the recovery." Japan blew a chance to become the first Asian country to qualify for next year's ...

  • Japans regional isolation higher than ever

    Japan's neighbors are getting wary of PM Shinzo Abe and his center-right government. At home, however, Abe is bucking the trend of his immediate predecessors and riding high in the opinion ...

  • Bicyclist killed was MIT researcher from Japan

    The Back Bay bicyclist struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver yesterday afternoon near Beacon Street and Charlesgate West has been identified by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as 36-year-old Kanako Miura, a native of Japan and researcher of humanoid robots, who has been working at the school’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since fall."Our hearts ...

Movie Review

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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  • Yahoo Japan Hackers stole 22 million user IDs

    Yahoo Japan reports hackers hit their site for the second time in less than a month, this time stealing 22 million user IDs. Yahoo Japan is telling its 200 million users to change their passwords, after hackers apparently stole 22 million user IDs in an online raid last week. It doesnt appear the hackers were able to steal passwords or password information, nor that the raid affected users ...

  • UPDATE 1-JA Solar posts smaller loss as Japan sales climb

    Mon May 20, 2013 8:57am EDT * Gross margins turns positive for first time in three qtrs * Co says still evaluating options to boost cash position * Shares jump 13 pct in trading before the bell May 20 (Reuters) - Chinese solar products maker JA Solar Holdings Co Ltd halved its quarterly operating loss as it sold more panels in Japan, a high-margin market, and it expanded into emerging ...

  • Howls of derision greet ÂdudÂ’ Japanese film

    (28 mins ago) A blood-soaked vengeance tale from Japan drew the biggest boos in the race for the Cannes Film Festival's top prize today, with critics savaging a ';risible'' parade of cliches. Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike unveiled ‘Shield of Straw’ (Wara No Tate) about a nationwide bounty hunt for a child rapist who murders the seven-year-old ...

  • All Japan All the Time

    A Free Video Presentation The evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be removed until our citizens are generally and radically instructed in their cause and consequences, and silence by their authority the interested clamors and sophistry of speculating, shaving, and banking institutions. Till then we must be content to return, quo ad hoc, to the savage state, to recur to barter in the ...

  • Exclusive - Japan panel warns of dangers if debt unaddressed

    Reuters © Japan's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso attends the Asian Development Bank (ADB) 46th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi May 4, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan ...

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