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  • Nippon Airways reports minor incident on modified Dreamliner Nippon Airways reports minor incident on modified Dreamliner

    TOKYO - Japan's All Nippon Airways said Friday a modified Dreamliner had suffered a "minor" setback while conducting a test flight of an aircraft this month, but assured it was not due to overheating of lithium batteries. All Nippon Airways, the Japanese airline that is the largest operator of Boeing's beleaguered Dreamliner, said an electric distribution panel overheated and blackened during ...

  • 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 ...

  • Japanese executive commits suicide in Gurgaon

    A senior Japanese executive committed suicide by jumping off a multi storey building in a residential complex in Gurgaon, Haryana, on Friday. Yushiharu Fuji, 54, jumped from a 15 storey high-rise apartment located in Phase 5, DLF City. Gurgaon Police have since taken custody of Fuji's body. Police said Fuji might have been depressed as he lived alone, and therefore, took the extreme step to ...

  • India Japan to strengthen investment trade ties

    India and Japan Friday agreed to further strengthen investment and trade ties by ensuring faster implementation of ongoing projects. Both the countries have agreed to support planned initiatives and projects in this year designed for strengthening business partnership to be organized by Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization ...

  • Chenni-Bangalore corridor to be strengthened with Japanese collaboration

    The meeting between H.E. Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce and Industry of India and H.E. Toshimitsu Motegi, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan was held today in Tokyo considered the enhancement of the infrastructure in the region of the Chennai Bangalore Infrastructure Corridor(CBIC). At the meeting, India and Japan acknowledged the progress made in the CBIC project and the ...

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Straw Dogs (1971) [DVD]

Straw Dogs (1971) [DVD]

Sam Peckinpahs Straw Dogs is a great and troubling masterpiece, a film of such simultaneous depth and crudeness that it has elicited some of the most conflicting responses of his or any other filmmakers career. For every critic who found it the work of a great and terrible genius, there were those like Judith Crist who labeled it the worst film of 1971 and declared All anyone with an IQ of ... ...

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  • Anand Sharma invites Japanese Inc to invest in India

    Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister Anand Sharma, addressing the "India Investment Roundtable" jointly organized by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) of Ministry of Commerce and Confederation of Indian Industry in Tokyo today, invited leading Japanese companies to invest in India and become partner in the growth story of India for mutual benefit. India and Japan ...

  • Anand Sharma meets Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

    Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister Anand Sharma, who is on a two-day visit to Tokyo for a comprehensive review of bilateral economic engagement with Japan, today called upon Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. During the meeting, Sharma apprised the Japanese prime minister of the progress made in the implementation of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project, which was ...

  • Japan confirms DPRKs missile launches

    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 that the ...

  • Northeast Japan Jolted by Earthquake

    two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture further north also detected no irregularities, operator Tohoku Electric Power Co said. In Miyagi prefecture, where the shaking was the strongest, there were no information on injuries, Kyodo added. The United States Geological Survey recorded the ...

  • 5.9 earthquake strikes Japan off Fukushima coast

    Tsunami An earthquake with a magnitude measured at 5.9 by Japan's Meteorological Agency has struck the northeast of the country. The epicenter was close to the Fukushima coast and only 200km from Tokyo, causing buildings in the capital to shake. The quake struck at 2:48 pm (05:48 GMT) in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 50km (31 miles) from land. The United States Geological Survey ...

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