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Just days after provoking a storm by labeling sex slaves a military necessity, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto says South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing ...

Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, ...

Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That's the feeling I'm getting ...

Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in Britain and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. ...

When speaking of Japanese art, people use words such as wabi and sabi, words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing ...

The Ryukyu Golden Kings failed to reach the Final Four for the first time since 2007-08, their inaugural season in the bj-league. That result ...

This Monday, members of the seminal metal band X Japan were in Odaiba rubbing shoulders with the likes of Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and AKB48′s Yuko Oshima. The catch? They were all made out of wax. (Japan Times)

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has announced that it intends to draw up a set of unified rules for the use of baby strollers on buses and trains. (Japan Today)

The 15-year-old son of a U.S. contractor assigned to Camp Zama will spend time in a Japanese juvenile detention facility for setting fire to a historic shrine. (stripes.com)

The Japanese government drew up a draft outline on Tuesday of strategies to counter the increasing threat of cyberattacks by foreign entities. (Jiji Press)

The small opposition Your Party decided Tuesday to cancel planned electoral cooperation with the Japan Restoration Party, following controversial remarks by its co-head and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto concerning wartime sexual servitude. (Kyodo)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch the country's new solid-fuel rocket Epsilon on Aug. 22, carrying a satellite whose mission is to observe Venus and Mars while orbiting Earth, the science ministry said Tuesday. (Kyodo)

IAEA team to help Fukushima decontamination The Japan Times The experts will be provided with local radiation data, tour disaster-hit areas and support Fukushima's compilation of radiation maps, and radioactive decontamination and waste disposal efforts under the IAEA's three-year agreement with the prefecture, ... IAEA inspector backs pumping Fukushima groundwater into seaGlobalPost International nuclear inspector supports pumping groundwater to sea at ...The Japan Daily Press all 4 news articles »

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Hundreds outside Fukushima affected by Japanese nuclear disaster seek ... Washington Post Radiation levels in Hippo district are comparable to areas in Fukushima subject to voluntary evacuation, where residents are entitled to receive up to 720,000 yen ($7,000) for every child and pregnant woman, and up to 120,000 yen ($1,180) per adult. Nearly 700 crisis-hit residents outside Fukushima seek compensation from ...Calgary Herald Thanks To Abenomics, The Company At The centre Of The Fukushima Nuclear ...Business Insider Australia TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO INCORPORATED : Earthquake Occurred on ...4-traders (press release) WKAR -Next Big Future -Businessweek all 20 news articles »

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Nuclear Energy Industry Re-Energizing after Fukushima Energy Collective The Fukushima incident has contributed to the lay belief that nuclear energy is a risk not worth taking. Although, according to the data of the non-profit World Nuclear Association only a very limited number of accidents occurred in over 14,500 ... This Tiny Mining Sector Is About to Soar - Investment UInvestment U all 3 news articles »

Nuclear power industry moves on from Fukushima meltdown: IAEA chief Platts More than two years since the Fukushima I meltdown in Japan, the global nuclear power industry is "beginning to put the accident behind us and is looking forward to the future," International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano said ... and more »

Fishermen net fish in Fukushima waters to measure radiation levels Asahi Shimbun A fishing vessel from Fukushima Prefecture caught fish in waters south of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on May 20 to test them for levels of radiation contamination, as local fishing cooperatives hope to soon resume fishing in the area.

Fukushima No. 1 can't keep its head above tainted water The Japan Times More than two years into the triple-meltdown crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, workers continue to wage a desperate battle to keep the stricken reactors cool while trying to contain the 400 tons of radioactive water produced by the process ...

Japanese mobile operator Softbank said Tuesday it planned to raise $3.9 billion through a record bond issuance in June to finance its proposed takeover of U.S. firm Sprint Nextel. Softbank, which is under pressure from Sprint shareholders to raise its bid, will sell five-year debt to Japanese investors after a…

Police in Kumamoto said Tuesday they received a call from a man who claimed to have illegally disposed of a corpse two years earlier. The man, who has been named as 59-year-old Koichi Koga accompanied police to a garage on company premises in Mashiki on Monday, TBS reported. After digging…

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd and Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co China on Tuesday announced the development of 3D hand gesture recognition technology that, using video captured on a single PC or tablet camera, can detect not only vertical and horizontal hand motion, but also the forward and backward movements of…

NEC Corp said Tuesday it will participate in African Fair 2013 at PACIFICO Yokohama from May 30 - June 2. As part of its cutting-edge technologies for public security, NEC will showcase some of the world's most accurate fingerprint identification and facial recognition technologies. NEC will also introduce its satellite…

He's played a science-fiction hero, policeman and even Hamlet. But now actor Keanu Reeves is taking on a new role - as director of a contemporary martial arts movie aimed at both Chinese and Western audiences. Reeves has stepped behind the camera to make his directorial debut with "Man of…

When your enemy is sworn to exterminate every one of you, can you -- should you -- try to cut a deal with him to at least save some lives knowing that others are doomed? The question lies at the heart of a new documentary by Claude Lanzmann, author of…