Japan 2005 Expo to Display Frozen Mammoth
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Shuttle buses without drivers, trains floating on magnetic fields and other visions of the future will be on display at Japan's world fair next year. But Expo 2005's centerpiece will be rooted deep in the past &#151; the frozen remains of a woolly mammoth.
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Japan hints it may be open to significant compromise as an annual international whaling conference opens in Alaska.
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A wildlife park is widening its collection of animals to include Japanese macaques.
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New York gets a chrysanthemum exhibition fit for Japanese royalty.
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New York hosts the first major US exhibition of Shomei Tomatsu, Japan's most important postwar photographer.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a  Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday,  while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to  commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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Tickets go on sale for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy on Wednesday amid the now-customary power struggles and financial impropriety among organizers.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the Japanese fleet, a news report said Tuesday.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday, while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Dozens of half-naked men rolled around in the snow in a ritualized brawl at a temple in northern Japan, as one of the country's raciest festivals defied a row over posters featuring a hairy, bare-chested reveler.
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Japan on Thursday hailed warming relations with China as it hosted the neighbouring giant&#39;s defence minister for the first time in nearly a decade.
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Japan is set to abandon whale hunting in the Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday.
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A special meeting of the International Whaling Commission began on Tuesday, with host Japan and like-minded countries hoping the gathering will build momentum to resume commercial hunting of the giant creatures.
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THE future of the world&#39;s large wild mammals is threatened by pressures similar to those that caused the extinction of two-thirds of such species at the end of the most recent Ice Age.
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Activists intent on disrupting Japan's whale hunt offer a $25,000 reward for details leading them to the fleet.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental disaster close to a major penguin colony.
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Japan is preparing to mobilize troops to  deal with wild animals such as boars, bears and monkeys.