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Fukushima to test milk from 10,000 mothers

The breast milk of about 10,000 mothers residing in Fukushima Prefecture, home to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, will be tested for radioactive contamination, prefectural officials...

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Tokyo stocks close lower as Germany data fuel eurozone worries

Tokyo stocks fell Thursday after two straight days of gains as weak Germany economic data left investors concerned about the outlook for the eurozone economy. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended...

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Emperor recounts visit to tsunami-devastated shores in New Year's poem

Emperor Akihito recounted his visit to areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in a poem recited at the annual New Year Poetry Reading Ceremony at the Imperial Palace on Thursday....

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Sumo: Hakuho swats down Miyabiyama on fifth day

Yokozuna Hakuho continued to dominate Miyabiyama on Thursday, improving to 5-0 at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament with an easy win over the hapless komusubi. Hakuho defeated Miyabiyama (0-5) for the...

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Analysis: Ageing, indebted Japan holds lessons for others

An asset price bubble pops, hitting bank balance sheets and tax revenues. As growth weakens and the economy flirts with deflation, the real burden of servicing debt increases. Companies race to pay off...

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Renault-Nissan likely placed third in sales in 2011: Ghosn

The Renault-Nissan Alliance may have placed third in 2011 global new car sales with about 8.03 million vehicles, a figure including those sold by the Renault-financed AvtoVAZ of Russia, according to...

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METI bigwig nabbed in insider trading via wife's name

Prosecutors arrested a senior official at the trade ministry Thursday over insider trading in a 2009 state-led bailout for chip-maker Elpida Memory Inc. Masaaki Kimura, 53, is suspected of repeatedly...

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Record number of new convenience stores to open in FY12

Three major convenience store chains will open a total of about 3,000 outlets in fiscal 2012--a record annual number--bringing the total number of convenience stores in the nation to over 45,000,...

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Govt to start preliminary TPP talks with 3 nations

The government will start preliminary consultations toward its participation in talks over the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral trade agreement with three of the countries already involved in...

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Surplus plunges 85% in Nov. / Year-on-year fall to 138 billion yen marks...

The nation's current account surplus declined 85.5 percent in November from the same month a year earlier to 138.5 billion yen, shrinking for the ninth straight month, according to a Finance Ministry...

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Water, blankets ready for Tokyo subway commuters

Tokyo Metro Co. has stocked enough water bottles and blankets for 100,000 people at all of its 170 stations as part of its efforts to prepare for a possible disaster such as a major earthquake. As...

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Japan's trade balance

Imbalances are not for ever. In the 1980s and 1990s, Japan's huge trade surplus was a popular target for American and European protectionists. No longer. Provisional estimates suggest that Japan's...

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Niseko, Japan's own St. Moritz

I am barefoot and naked padding along a stone path in the depths of Japanese winter, surrounded by snow-laden pine trees. I slip into a hot pool fed by natural underground springs. Huge, slow-moving...

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Escaped convict caught in Hiroshima

Police recaptured a Chinese fugitive Friday, two days after he escaped from Hiroshima Prison dressed only in his underwear. Li Guolin, 40, fled Wednesday by scaling a 5-meter prison fence that was...

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Cultist who harbored fugitive had Y8 million in cash

The ex-Aum Shinrikyo follower who sheltered senior cult fugitive Makoto Hirata for nearly 17 years had ¥8 million in cash when she turned herself in Tuesday, investigative sources said. Police hope to...

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Asia's new tripartite entente

The launch of trilateral strategic consultations among the United States, India and Japan, and their decision to hold joint naval exercises this year, signals efforts to form an entente among the...

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Tokyo foreigners get disaster drill

A total of 150 non-Japanese took part Friday in an annual emergency drill for foreign residents in Tokyo looking to learn or reaffirm how to deal with a disaster like the one that hit March 11. With...

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Sumo: Yokozuna Hakuho improves to 13-0 against Goeido

Yokozuna Hakuho outclassed Goeido to stay perfect through six days, leading an unbeaten group of three at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday. Hakuho made it 13-for-13 against Goeido in the...

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Noda hoping latest reshuffle bucks trend of dismal failures

Cabinet reshuffles are generally called a gamble prime ministers take to reverse dismal approval ratings, but in recent years most of them have failed miserably. Since Junichiro Koizumi left office in...

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Noda skips Davos to tackle reforms

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will not attend an annual meeting of the World Economic Forum that starts Jan. 25 in Davos, Switzerland, and instead will focus on domestic affairs ahead of the Diet...

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