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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 ...

  • Japans Nikkei Goes for Wild Ride for Second Day

    Japan's stock market witnessed a second-straight day of heightened volatility on Friday, swinging from gains of 3 percent to deep losses before bouncing back again, leaving traders puzzled as to what was going on in Asia's biggest stock market. The Nikkei, which rose about 3 percent in early trade, fell more than 3 percent in the final hour of Tokyo trade before paring those losses. ...

  • Nikkei ends rollercoaster session in positive territory

    (34 mins ago) Shares in Tokyo closed 0.89 percent higher today in a rollercoaster session that came a day after the Nikkei suffered its worst one-day drop since Japan's March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index, which on tumbled 7.3 percent yesterday, finished 0.89 percent, or 128.47 points, higher at 14,612.45, while the broader Topix index of all first-section ...

  • Eurozone crisis live Japan closes higher after wild day of trading

    The Japanese market suffered another turbulent session after Thursday's dive - dropping as much as 3.5% in the afternoon - but stabilised to close 0.9% ...

  • 2 Korean former sex slaves cancel meeting with Japanese mayor demand apology and resignation

    OSAKA, Japan - Two Korean former sex slaves have cancelled a meeting with an outspoken Japanese mayor who last week said Japan's wartime practice of using many Asian women as prostitutes was necessary to maintain military discipline. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, also co-leader of a nationalist party, has enraged Japanese neighbours with his comments about so-called comfort women. ...

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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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  • Mitsubishi Motors proposes capital change

    dividend payments - after a gap of around 15 years - and will be put to shareholders at the annual meeting on June 25, the company said. "We decided to conduct a reduction in capital with the main purpose of setting up an environment in which we can resume dividend payments at an early stage," it ...

  • Australian shares dive to one-month low Japan uncertainty hits

    Fri May 24, 2013 2:47am EDT (Adds details, comments) SYDNEY May 24 (Reuters) - Australian shares reversed early gains to fall 1.6 percent as faltering banks and market volatility hit investor sentiment on Friday, sending the benchmark index tumbling further from one-month lows touched a day earlier. Japan's Nikkei share average turned positive in a volatile session on Friday afternoon after ...

  • Japans Nikkei rebounds after Thursday plunge

    Pedestrians are reflected as they walk past an electric quotation board displaying the Nikkei key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in front of a securities company in Tokyo on May 10, 2013. The Nikkei regained some of the losses sustained on Thursday. (TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty ...

  • Meeting between Osaka mayor and comfort women canceled

    A meeting between Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, also co-leader of the opposition Japan Restoration Party, and two women who were recruited by the Japanese military into sexual servitude as the so-called " comfort women" during World War II was canceled, city officials said on Friday. The cancellation of the meeting came amid continuing criticism of Hashimoto's recent remarks on the ...

  • Japans ANA to resume Boeing 787 flights on Sunday

    TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering ...

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