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Woodford in Japan to decide on bid to run Olympus

The former CEO of Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp, Briton Michael Woodford, returned to Japan on Thursday where he said he will decide the future of his bid to return to his old post. Woodford, who was...

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Two female Taiwanese students murdered in Japan

Two female Taiwanese students were killed in the dormitory of a Japanese language school in Tokyo Thursday, according to Japanese police. The two students were identified as 25-year-old Chu Li-chieh...

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32-year-old homeless man found dead outside Japanese arcade

January is always cold in Japan's Mie Prefecture. This January is no different. For many, it's a matter or turning on the heater. For the homeless, it's a matter of survival. Recently making the rounds...

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Nikkei retreats from 3-wk high as euro worries nag

Japan's Nikkei stock average pulled back on Thursday from a three-week closing high, weighed down by concerns that the euro zone debt crisis would keep the single currency weak against the yen and hurt...

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Condemned cultist grilled on Hirata

Police have questioned condemned Aum Shinrikyo killer Yoshihiro Inoue as part of their investigation into fugitive cultist Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in on New Year's Eve after almost 17 years...

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Heavy snow plasters Sea of Japan

A strong wintry pressure pattern caused heavy snowfall Thursday on the Sea of Japan coast, especially in the Hokuriku region. The Meteorological Agency issued advisories for traffic disruptions and...

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Tokyo exodus nuke report's worst scenario

Areas as far as 170 km away from the Fukushima nuclear plant faced the potential risk of being declared permanent evacuation zones, according to a worst-case scenario drawn up at the height of the...

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Olympics: Japan will aim for 15 golds: Takeda

Japan will target 15 gold medals at this summer's London Olympics, Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda said on Thursday. In his first address of the year to the JOC and the Japan...

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Japan steps up Asia diplomacy

Despite numerous domestic challenges, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has his eyes on Japan's strategic future. And it's not all about China. Unlike many of us, Japan's premier didn't sit back and take...

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Whalers, activists unite in calls for patrol ship

It is not often Japan's whalers agree with their bitter enemies, the anti-whaling activists of Sea Shepherd, but in this case they do. With Australia's Southern Ocean patrol ship, Ocean Protector,...

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Yakuza gangs face fight for survival as Japan cracks down on organised crime

After decades of tacit acceptance, Japan's yakuza gangs are facing their biggest challenge: not from the police, but from ordinary citizens who are under pressure to shun the mob or be named and...

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Poor employment conditions push Japan's young to the edge

"I finally started working," said "Daisuke" (not his real name), 31, to his friends and former classmates at last year's high school class reunion. Listening to other people talk about their work, when...

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Woodford gives up fight to head Olympus, will sue

The former Olympus Corp. CEO who blew the whistle on dubious spending at the Japanese camera and medical equipment maker said Friday he is giving up his fight to regain the presidency and plans to sue...

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Three 'North Koreans' found off Japan

Japan's coastguard says it has found three people adrift in a small boat off the country's west coast with media reporting they are from North Korea but are not defectors. "We confirmed three people...

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Oil-yielding algae show promise as domestic, export energy trove

Not many people imagine that resource-poor Japan might one day become an oil exporter. But someone who does is Makoto Watanabe, a leading expert in research on producing oil from microscopic algae....

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Ideas on female royalty solicited

The government will begin interviewing experts in various fields from February on the issue of whether female members of the Imperial family should be allowed to create their own branches of the family...

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Guards who hosed inmate's rectum seek retrial

Two Nagoya Prison guards who were convicted of causing an inmate's death in 2001 by spraying a firehose into his rectum filed for a retrial Friday against their verdicts, which drew suspended...

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Recovery predicted for April / Business leaders confident, but press for...

The economy will begin recovering in April thanks to rising demand for reconstruction projects in areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, leaders of the nation's three major business...

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Sumo: Hatsu Basho - time for domestic rekishi to shine

For around a decade much has been made of the lack of domestic born talent in professional sumo. No Japanese sekitori has won a yusho now for six full years - the last local winner being then ozeki...

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Japan's coast guard rescues three drifting in boat with one dead

Japan's Coast Guard said it rescued three men adrift in a boat that had one dead body aboard off Okinoshima Island in western Japan. Survivors told coast guard officials they had been fishing when...

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