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Parade marks 400th anniversary of Japan-Mexico ties+

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A two-day event to mark the 400th anniversary of relations between Japan and Mexico began Saturday in Mexico City with a parade featuring Japan from traditional arts to to-up-date...

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Sports › Highly touted schoolboy Kikuchi agrees to terms with Seibu

Sunday 22nd November, 05:42 AM JST SHIZUKUISHI — Hanamaki Higashi High School left-hander Yusei Kikuchi agreed to terms with the Seibu Lions on Saturday. The 18-year-old top prospect will receive a signing bonus of 100 million...

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Chinese FM interviewed by Japanese state broadcaster on various issues

TOKYO, 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was interviewed Saturday by Japanese state broadcaster NHK on various issues. In the interview, Yang answered questions concerning China's development and its role on...

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World War II Reparations Compared

German and Japanese Responses to War Crimes and Atrocities Germany continues a campaign of compensation and education to accept guilt for WW II atrocities while Japan follows a long policy of official denial of wrongdoing. In...

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Nikkei falters, first 4-wk losing streak in a year

By Masayuki Kitano TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.5 percent on Friday and logged its first four-week losing streak in over a year, with Sony sliding after its new growth strategy failed to...

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Japan's DoCoMo Plans 2010 LTE Launch

By Maisie Ramsay Thursday, November 19, 2009 Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo will launch commercial LTE service in December of next year, skipping an interim upgrade to HSPA+. NTT DoCoMo President and CEO Ryuji Yamada made the...

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Growth and Characterization of Highly Tensile-Strained Ge on In_{x}Ga_{1-x}As Virtual Substrate...

Authors: Yutaka Hoshina, Akira Yamada, Makoto Konagai Tensile-strained Ge is a promising material for Si-based optoelectronic integrated circuits and next-generation high-performance multijunction solar cells. We have grown...

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Tohoku Regional Accent

is spoken in the northeast region of Japan, in the Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures. Not as often heard as the Kanto or Kansai dialects in anime and manga, when it does show up you can be sure...

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Interview: Rich Medina funks up the Shelter

Rich Medina, a veteran of the New York music scene, is tearing up the Shelter on Friday night - a party you definitely don't want ...

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NTT DoCoMo moves up date to shut off 2G mobile

Japan's biggest wireless service provider plans to shut off its 2G mobile phone network in March 2011 because most of its customers will have moved on to 3G, the company CEO said Wednesday in Hong Kong.

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