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> High school employee arrested for paying girl for sex

11th November Police on Tuesday arrested a manager at a high school in Kawasaki’s Asao Ward on charges of violating the child prostitution and pornography laws after he allegedly paid a 17-year-old student for sexual services....

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Lancet retracts paper by Japanese research team for shoddy methodology

A British medical journal has retracted a clinical study submitted by a team of Japanese researchers, after another study group questioned the credibility of its results. The paper, published in The ...

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Couple's love story started in Africa

Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger. Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, was there to help with vaccination activities, using her experience as a... Read more . . .

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Technology › Panasonic begins delivery of P-01B handsets to DoCoMo

Saturday 21st November, 03:47 AM JST YOKOHAMA — Panasonic Mobile Communications Co on Friday began shipment of its docomo PRIME series P-01B mobile phones to NTT DoCoMo Inc. The P-01B adopts Panasonic’s unique style that allows...

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Spaniard denies being drug smuggler; lay judges hand him 10 years

CHIBA (Kyodo) A Spanish man was sentenced to 10 years and fined ¥5 million in a lay judge trial Friday for smuggling illegal stimulants into Japan in May. He had pleaded innocent. Orquin Mompo Fernando, 38, was the second...

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Osaka-based Consultancy Forms A Network Giving Entrepreneurs Many Cost-Savings & Various Supports

Tokyo-, Osaka- and Shanghai-based business consultancy providing support for start-up companies, Akinai Research Institute[J] just introduced a new program encouraging entrepreneurs in terms of financial, personnel and material...

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Caster Teoh (caster.twy@gmail.com) edited BarCampSingapore4

Web Tech Dev, Social Web, Ideas - @jsoong 242. "Teacher asked me to sign up one leh, so I did. But "reaching full capacity"?! Please register me - if not my teacher kill me, I die." Guyi Shen - Phang Su Hui-...

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PREVIEW-High Q1 aluminium premium could slow Japan buying

By Miho Yoshikawa TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Japanese buyers accepted premiums of $115-$120 per tonne for delivery in October-December, as sellers profited from worries about low stockpiles at Japanese ports and tightly held...

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Life Sciences: Reports outline life sciences study findings from RIKEN Yokohama Institute

Current study results from the report, 'TagDust--a program to eliminate artifacts from next generation sequencing data,' have been published. "Next-generation parallel sequencing technologies produce large quantities of short...

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Masao Uebayashi (uebayasi@gmail.com) edited BarCampYokohama

Yokohama International School providing morning refreshments, snacks throughout day, lunch, venu, wifi, Proposed Sessions Live Session Schedule http://tr.im/ybtg09sched Check in entering into the front entrance of the school...

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