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  • Japan clarifies report on North Korean missile launches

    While confirming North Korea's missile launches Saturday, the Japanese government clarified none of the missiles landed in its territorial waters, Xinhua reported. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, citing its country's defence ministry, had reported that North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan. The ministry had detected two missiles being launched in the ...

  • Manmohan Singh to visit Japan and Thailand

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is slated to pay official visit to Japan from May 27 to 29 and to the Kingdom of Thailand on May 30 and 31. The visit to Japan is at the invitation of Prime Minister of Japan, H.E. Mr. Shinzo Abe. The Annual Summit between the Prime Ministers of India and Japan is expected to enhance and strengthen the Strategic and Global Partnership between the two countries. ...

  • Soon your hand will also be your smartphone

    Researchers from the University of Tokyo are in the process of developing a technology to put the mobile phone on the palm of your hand. Using a special camera that combines high-speed vision and two rotational mirrors, Masatoshi Ishikawa and his team at the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory, said that they have found a method to project a device's display screen or keyboard onto the palm, or any other ...

  • Japan confirms DPRK launched missile

    Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Japanese government confirmed the DPRK's missile launches on Saturday, saying none of the missiles have landed in Japan's territorial waters, Kyodo news agency reported. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency earlier reported that the DPRK launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday, citing the country's defense ministry. It is reported ...

  • Japan defends PM aides surprise N.Korea trip

    TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese minister on Sunday defended a surprise visit to North Korea by one of the prime minister's aides which Washington and Seoul said could not help efforts to forge a united front against Pyongyang.Akira Amari, state minister of economic revitalisation, said the four-day trip by Isao Iijima reflected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resolve to have North Korea come ...

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Ran [DVD]

Ran [DVD]

There is a sequence that opens the second hour of Ran that is among the most breathtaking of cinematic achievements in Akira Kurosawas long and remarkable career. It takes place as two sons lay siege to a castle inhabited by their father, an aging warlord who has turned over his kingdom only to s ... ...

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  • Council proposes lowering age for English education

    An expert panel on education will recommend that the government lower the grade when primary school students start studying English from the fifth year and make it a regular subject for fifth and sixth graders, sources ...

  • Japans elderly not acting their age

    SAITAMA, Japan (AFP) - When amateur actress Etsuko Shigemoto walks out in front of a Paris audience in an all-Japanese production this month she will forget about being 87 years old."I have weak hearing and poor sight. I have problems all over my body," she said. "But I am still young in spirit."Shigemoto is one of a troupe of elderly actors -- average age 74 -- under the ...

  • Toyota plans to increase lithium-ion car battery output-Nikkei

    TOKYO | Sun May 19, 2013 2:40am EDT TOKYO May 19 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is planning to increase production of lithium-ion batteries by six times, as the automaker prepares to eventually use them in its flagship Prius gasoline-electric hybrid cars, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday. Currently, most of Toyota's hybrid vehicles use nickel-metal hydride batteries but ...

  • WWII comfort women were necessary says Japanese politician Toru Hashimoto

    A prominent Japanese politician has described as "necessary" the system by which women were forced to become prostitutes for World War II troops. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said the "comfort women" gave soldiers putting their lives at risk a chance "to rest". He acknowledged that the women had been acting "against their will". Some 200,000 women ...

  • Weak yen helps drive Japan earnings but no cure-all

    Japan's earnings season has drawn to a close with the sharply weaker yen helping inflate profits at some of the nation's top exporters, but, warn some commentators, the drop is not all good news. Sony booked its first annual profit in five years, Toyota more than tripled its earnings in the fiscal year to March and the head of rival automaker Nissan hailed the taming of the currency. ...

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