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  • Japanese economy has begun to recover central bank

    Japan's central bank said Wednesday that it will continue pursuing its current stimulus program and that the country's economy "has begun to recover" thanks to a reversal in the decline of exports, which account for 40 percent of Japanese GDP. "Domestic demand remains resilient due to the effects of the monetary relaxation measures" and the recently-approved stimulus policies, the Bank of Japan ...

  • UN agency to open nuclear emergency preparedness centre in Fukushima UN agency to open nuclear emergency preparedness centre in Fukushima

    22 May 2013 150 Experts from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are heading to Japan to launch an emergency preparedness and response centre in Fukushima, the coastal city devastated two years ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami set off meltdowns at a nuclear power plant. The IAEA, supported by the Government of Japan, will designate a new Response and ...

  • Kenya Envoy Japan seeking closer ties with Kenya

    Japan will scale up its operations in the country by drafting stout policy frameworks and constructing developmental projects to accelerate growth in Kenya. Japanese ...

  • Streamlined News Japans World Team Racing Together This Weekend

    PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. MOST of the members of Japan's world championship swim team will race this weekend at the Japan Open in Kanagawa, one of the few meets the team will race in together before heading to Barcelona. On the men's side, Kosuke Hagino will be the busiest swimmer, scheduled to race in four events. He is slated to swim five individual events in the world ...

  • Sony Masterworks Salutes 20th-century Musical Visionaries

    It's been a century since Igor Stravinksy's The Rite of Spring ushered in an age of radical musical transformation that changed the face of music. A succession of great twentieth century composers went on to create music that transcended tradition and moved the art form in a direction unlike anything the world had heard before. Now Sony Masterworks celebrates these musical visionaries ...

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Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

The only things that George A. Romeros 1978 Dawn of the Dead and the new remake by music video director Zack Snyder have in common are (1) there are flesh-eating zombies taking over the world and (2) a group of human survivors take refuge in a shopping mall. Thats whe ... ...

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  • Don’t be afraid of color says this Japanese makeup artist

    SADA, Nars International lead makeup stylist backstage during 2013 Fashion Week Few imagined a boy from rural Japan would grow up to be a globetrotting makeup stylist save perhaps for Sadafumi Ito, Nars International's makeup stylist. Ito was recently in the country to launch the Nars 2013 Summer Collection. Sada contributed to the Nars backstage artistry team during New York Fashion Week, ...

  • 80-year-old Japanese man scales Everest sets record

    KATMANDU--An 80-year-old Japanese climber reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain, his website and a Nepalese official ...

  • World markets roiled by Nikkeis 7.3-percent dip

    LONDON/HONG KONG--Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ...

  • Birds Of Tokyo announce Cairns show with chance to win tickets

    The ARIA Award-winning Perth five-piece are arguably Australia's hottest live rock outfit this year, enjoying a massive run of success off the back of their new album March Fires, which debuted at No. 1 in March and has produced the hit singles Lanterns and This Fire, alongside their latest effort When the Night Falls Quiet.Landing in Cairns and Townsville on the eve of their show at the ...

  • The 4 hedge funders losing big in the Japan rout

    There's one big winner, too. FORTUNE -- The "Abe Trade" just hit a major bump. Toward the end of last year, a number of large hedge funds began piling into Japan. Driving the bet was the country's new prime minister Shinzo Abe, who said he favored flooding Japan's markets with cash from its central bank in order to finally pull its economy out of its perpetual slump. ...

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