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  • North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace

    BEIJING - A senior North Korean envoy delivered a letter from his leader Kim Jong-un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him that Pyongyang was ready to take "positive action" to re-join stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. The letter was handed over by envoy, Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae. Choe told Xi that North Korea is willing to take positive actions to solve problems ...

  • Myanmar visit to turn new page in history Japanese PM

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a message published in Myanmar official media here Saturday that his current official visit to Myanmar will bring Japan-Myanmar cooperation to even higher level and serve as an opportunity to lay down a foundation for turning a new page in history. Abe said he will exchange views with President U Thein Sein in the forthcoming meeting, expected to take ...

  • PM to undertake five-day visit to Japan Thailand from Monday

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a five-day official visit to Japan and Thailand from Monday. He will first visit Japan from May 27 to May 29 and then visit Thailand on May 30 to 31. The focus of the visit to Japan is expected to be on strategic content and ways to expand bilateral energy and economic ties, while the visit to Bangkok will be aimed at signing a long awaited ...

  • JX Nippon KUFPEC and Santos begin oil output in Australia

    (MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration Corp., a unit of Japan's top refiner, said Friday it started commercial oil production from the Finucane South field, off Western Australia, on May 16. The project is jointly owned by a local unit of state-owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) and Australian upstream group Santos. Production began ...

  • Japans central bank chief upbeat on monetary easing

    (MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Bank of Japan (BOJ) new Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Friday expressed confidence with effects of the central bank's drastic monetary easing to end the country's deflation that has lasted for nearly 15 years."What's most important is that the effect of our monetary easing creates a positive cycle of output, income and spending in the ...

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Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari) [DVD]

In Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari), the titular blind masseur/swordsman, one of the most famous recurring characters in all of Japanese cinema, once again finds himself caught in a series of battles not of his own making. Although essentially peaceful, Zatoichi tends to find himself constantly enmeshed in violence--trouble follows him everywhere ... ...

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  • Japanese Lab Workers Exposed to Radiation

    TOKYO -- As many as 55 workers at a national laboratory may have been exposed to low levels of radiation after an experiment overheated, releasing radioactive particles into the air, the agency operating the lab said ...

  • Minamisanriku Tsunami-Hit Town In Japan Gets Easter Island Statue As Symbol For Recovery

    Japanese high school students and carvers from Chile pose before a new 'Moai' statue (back C), modelled on the mysterious carvings at Easter Island, as it was set at the tsunami-devastated town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on May 25, 2013. The giant present, a three-meter tall stone statue, crossed the ocean from Chile as the town's original was destroyed ...

  • A staff member watches monitors on May 22 at the National Weather Center in Norman Oklahoma which observes tornado activity round-the-clock.

    NORMAN, Okla.--The large-scale tornado that devastated the city of Moore, Okla., on May 20 will likely have a lower death toll than expected, thanks in part to a Japanese meteorologist who helped develop tornado forecasting ...

  • Nuclear physics lab continued experiment even after radioactive leak

    Scientists at a nuclear physics laboratory in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, ignored the ringing of an alarm that radioactive substances were leaking and continued with the experiment that triggered the problem for more than four hours, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said May ...

  • Japan can be the model for change

    A GENERATION ago, Japan was widely admired -- and feared -- as an economic paragon. Business best sellers put samurai warriors on their covers, promising to teach you the secrets of Japanese management; thrillers by the likes of Michael Crichton portrayed Japanese corporations as unstoppable juggernauts rapidly consolidating their domination of world markets. Then Japan fell into a seemingly ...

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