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  • Radioactive element found in groundwater near Japan n-plant

    High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater near the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the plant operator said Wednesday. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said tests showed Strontium-90 was present at 30 times the legal rate, BBC reported. The radioactive isotope tritium was also detected at elevated levels. The nuclear plant was crippled by ...

  • Now a sign-language service via iPads

    East Japan Railway Co. has started testing a sign-language interpretation service in Tokyo on Monday using a videophone application on an Apple iPad tablet for guiding hearing-impaired people. According to the Japan Times, the company earlier used written messages for guiding such people. Through this application, passengers at information booth can use sign-language to ask their queries to a ...

  • Nua Nan Bank JCB LOVE TSCC Debit Card to be launched in Taiwan in August

    The Japan Credit Bureau (JCB), in collaboration with Hua Nan Bank, has announced that it will launch the Nua Nan Bank JCB LOVE TSCC Debit Card in Taiwan in August. It is the first debit card that has an option to be equipped with TSCC, a contactless payment service which can be used as a fare card on trains and buses. The debit card will also be accepted at some shops and restaurants. In ...

  • Japan registers trade deficit

    Japan registered 993.9 billion yen of goods trade deficit in May, the government said Wednesday. Exports increased 10.1 percent from a year earlier, while imports rose 10 percent, the finance ministry said in a preliminary report. The figures were calculated on a customs-cleared basis, reported ...

  • Japanese firm to mass-produce synthetic spider silk

    A Japanese company has developed a synthetic protein based on spider silk and plans to use it to mass-produce a highly resistant and flexible fiber in the near future. After six years of research, Spiber, in collaboration with Keio University's Institute for Advanced Biosciences and the company Kojima Industries, will inaugurate a plant this year with the capacity to produce up to 100 kg of ...

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Kicking and Screaming [DVD]

Kicking and Screaming [DVD]

Kicking and Screaming, Noah Baumbachs directorial debut, is a clever, intelligent comedy about the pains of growing up. The main characters are four college friends who are as different in personality as they are alike in their collective fear about being grown-u ... ...

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  • Three `Spider-Man sequels in pipeline says studio

    Sony Pictures announced that it has firm plans for three sequels to 2012 mega-hit "The Amazing Spider-Man", with the first already in production and set for release in May 2014. The studio set opening dates for the third and fourth instalments of the saga in June 2016 and May 2018, respectively. "Spider-Man is our most important, most successful, and most beloved franchise, so we're thrilled ...

  • Sony Movie Channel Is Rounding Up Westerns In July As Gun Fights Cowboys Fugitives And Lawmen Ride Into Town

    Glenn Ford, Randolph Scott, Audie Murphy, Robert Duvall and Brad Pitt Star in Some of SMC's Most Popular Western Films Also, One Lucky Winner Will Get a Chance to Spend Three Days at a Colorado Dude Ranch with 'Sony Movie Channel Back in the Saddle Sweepstakes' CULVER CITY, Calif., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Movie Channel (SMC) is filling the screen with outlaws, horse ...

  • After The Obama-Xi Summit Pressure On Japan To Concede On SenkakuDiaoyu

    Washington , D.C. in February to meet President Obama, he was given only one hour forty-five minutes of Obama's time. During the just concluded G8 summit in Northern Ireland there was no Obama-Abe meeting. Leading up to the summit, the White House brusquely rebutted the Japanese foreign ministry's supplications, agreeing finally only to announce that the two would "meeting ...

  • Japan formally OKs new nuclear safety requirements

    TOKYO -- Japan's nuclear watchdog formally approved a set of new safety requirements for atomic power plants on Wednesday, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster in a move critics charged was too hasty.The new requirements approved by the Nuclear Regulation Authority take effect July 8, when operators will be able to apply for inspections. If ...

  • Murofushi was victim of an overzealous Japanese Olympic Committee CAS rules

    Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...

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