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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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Grown Ups

Grown Ups

Watching Grown Ups is much like watching someones terrible home movies: It is obvious that the people on screen had a grand ol time and enjoyed themselves immensely while the camera was rolling, but that sense of fun not only fails to translate into a pleasurable viewing experience for ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Germany tops Japan in popularity poll

    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 ...

  • Bill for ID number program clears Diet

    The Diet passed a bill Friday to set up a system that will assign an identification number to every citizen to improve government management of income, social security and tax information despite public concerns about the potential for data abuse. The House of Councilors voted for the bill, which was approved by the House of Representatives earlier this month. The system, to be introduced in ...

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