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JAPANESE TV

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OLYMPICS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 19, 2014
Critics of Tokyo 2020 venues misguided
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are still almost six years away, but in many ways the games have already begun.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Aug 19, 2014
Japan's historic love of corn
The fact that corn or maize has a Japanese name — tōmorokoshi — indicates that it entered the country centuries ago, before it was the norm to import the name of a food as-is and spell it out phonetically (as with tomatoes or asparagus, for instance).
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JAPAN / History
Aug 19, 2014
Australian town commemorates 1944 POW camp breakout
As dozens of spectators looked on at 2 a.m. on Aug. 5, three flares lit up the night sky over this small rural community in New South Wales, Australia, almost the exact time three shots rang out on the very same day 70 years before.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 18, 2014
Businessman at center of Thai surrogacy scandal hands over DNA samples
The lawyer of the Japanese man linked to a surrogate 'baby factory' in Thailand submits DNA samples to Thai police, saying the man wishes to clear his name.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2014
More Japanese living abroad than ever, ministry says
There were a record 1,258,263 Japanese living abroad as of Oct. 1, according to the Foreign Ministry's Annual Report of Statistics on Japanese Nationals Overseas, released Friday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 15, 2014
Worrying economic signs
The government must determine whether the slump in consumer spending during the April-June quarter is temporarily the result of the reaction to the three-percentage-point rise in the consumption tax, or reflects the Abe administration's policy failure.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2014
Government project aims to promote translations of Japanese books abroad
The government has launched a project to translate Japanese-language books about culture, history and advanced technology to bolster international understanding of the country.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 14, 2014
Build strong Japan-India ties without taking aim at China
In Tokyo and New Delhi, there are people seeking to elevate Indo-Japanese relations to the status of a de facto alliance and to pursue a strategy of encircling China.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 14, 2014
April-June machinery orders plunge at fastest pace in five years
Core private-sector machinery orders fell at the fastest pace in more than five years in the April-June quarter, the government said Thursday, underscoring corporate reluctance to boost investment after the April 1 consumption tax hike.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 14, 2014
Megabanks' $800 billion cash pile shows Abe must free up credit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has succeeded in wrestling down the yen and snapping a 15-year deflationary spiral. The challenge of spurring lending by the country's cash-hoarding megabanks remains.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 13, 2014
DNA shows nine babies found in Bangkok have same father, who remains unknown
DNA tests have proven that nine babies found in a Bangkok condominium last week have the same father, but authorities have yet to prove he is the Japanese businessman at the center of the case, senior police doctor Jongjate Aojanepong said on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 13, 2014
Philippine top court ends 'comfort women' group's legal battle
The Philippines' highest tribunal ended a legal battle by a group of Filipino wartime sex slaves on Tuesday to compel the country's government to support their demand for an apology and compensation from the Japanese government before international tribunals.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 12, 2014
Officials plan historic law change to allow dance and music clubs to stay open all night
Administration officials and lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are considering lifting a ban on dance clubs, music venues and some bars operating past midnight.
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JAPAN / Society
Aug 12, 2014
Barber cuts hair of suspects at police station for 50 years
A 74-year-old barber in Niigata Prefecture has been cutting the hair of suspects detained at a police station in the city of Murakami for the past half century.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2014
Body found on Mount St. Helens likely Japanese hiker missing since November
Teams searching over the weekend in Washington state found a body believed to be that of Yosuke Onishi, a hiker from Saga Prefecture missing since November when he attempted to climb Mount St. Helens alone.
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BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Aug 11, 2014
Japan tallies weak yen as prices rise without export gain
It was called "endaka" — a Japanese term for currency strength that sapped the economy — and reversing it was supposed to help end deflation and stoke growth.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 11, 2014
Ibaraki man brings body to police station, admits killing girlfriend
An Ibaraki Prefecture man drove to a police station Sunday with a woman's corpse wrapped up in the back seat of his car, and he confessed to killing his girlfriend.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 6, 2014
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno)
The jidaigeki (samurai period drama) is dying, we have been told again and again. Topknots and swords have become rare sights on television, while Japanese studios, which once devoted nearly half their production to the genre, now essay only the occasional chanbara (swordplay) film, with mixed box-office...
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 4, 2014
Evangelion director to be featured at Tokyo International Film Festival
The work of visionary director Hideaki Anno will take center stage at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).
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JAPAN / AT A GLANCE
Aug 3, 2014
Tokyo's storied Nihonbashi raises profile to promote historical role
The Nihonbashi district prospered as Japan's financial and trade center after shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu moved the capital to Edo, the old name for Tokyo, in the early 17th century.

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