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  • 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 ...

  • Japanese PM arrives in Myanmar for goodwill visit

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived Yangon Friday evening to pay a three-day official goodwill visit to the Southeast Asian nation.Abe is the first Japanese prime minister visiting Myanmar in 36 years since 1977 when former Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda came to the country.Abe, accompanied by business leaders from more than 30 Japanese companies, will have talks with President U ...

  • Japan PM’s Residence ‘Not Haunted’ – Government

    TOKYO, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – The Japanese government denied rumors on Friday that the prime minister's official residence is haunted, the Kyodo news portal reported. 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 rumors that the ...

  • Wall Street futures rise after chaotic day in Japan

    U.S. stock futures rise Stock futures on Wall Street were falling ahead of the start to regular trading on Friday as markets in Japan saw heightened volatility.Dow Jones industrial average index stock futures fell 0.2%, Standard & Poor's 500 index stock futures lost 0.4% and Nasdaq 100 index stock futures were also down 0.4%.On Thursday, the Dow and Nasdaq index closed the session down ...

  • Japans All Nippon Airways first to resume Dreamliner flights

    The airline with the greatest number of Boeing's new Dreamliner jets will be the first to resume commercial flights with it on Sunday, four months after the 787 jet was grounded over safety ...

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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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  • The problem with Japans high-stakes economic mind game | Alex Hern

    Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe 'has one of the strongest mandates ever to follow unconventional economic policies.' Photograph: Toru ...

  • Zimbabwe Mugabe Trip to Tokyo to Gobble Millions

    PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will next week gobble millions of dollars when he takes a huge entourage of more than 50 government officials to attend the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad) from June 1 to 3, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. Top government sources said Mugabe is expected to take a high-powered delegation of cabinet ministers, directors of ...

  • Sony and Lego collaborating on toy research

    A joint research project between Sony and Lego aims to come up with future projects that are part toy, part video game A team of researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo is embedding tiny motors, cameras, and actuators into Lego blocks. One demonstration uses two small motorized Lego platforms, one of which is computer-controlled and will relentlessly pursue the other, which ...

  • Wartime sex slaves cancel meeting with controversial Japanese mayor

    a column in a South Korean newspaper that said the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were "divine punishment" for Japan's wartime aggression.Kim Bok-dong, 87, and Kil Won-ok, 84, had been scheduled to meet Hashimoto in Osaka on Friday to discuss his recent claim ...

  • Noda aide visited North on sly to break impasse

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North ...

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