Japan to get nursing home for dogs
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Japan has a new nursing home for a swiftly graying population &#151; dogs.
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TOKYO: The Japanese government decided on Monday to look at allowing a female to ascend the throne of the worldâs oldest royal line in a move that could ease stress on the crown princess to produce a male heir.
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Text of report by Nepalnews.com website on 13 September  The Government of Japan has decided to extend a grant assistance of 588,436,000 rupees [8m US dollars] to the Government of Nepal for the project of improvement of shortwave and medium-wave radio broadcasting stations.
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TOKYO: Japan has decided to extend by as much as one year the humanitarian work of its troops deployed in Iraq, a program currently scheduled to end in December, news reports said.
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Japan&#39;s armed forces must contribute to global peace to secure safety at home, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Sunday amid signs his government will extend an unpopular military deployment in Iraq.
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TOKYO - Retirement comes in January. That's when Katsunori Hamahara turns 65, when his government pension kicks in, and when he will be able to afford a place to live.
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World's first pet cloning service is to offer animal lovers the chance to recreate dead companions
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Japan and the United States agreed on Saturday to resume imports of American beef from animals with birth records up to 20 months, Japan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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Japan's government says it has to work harder to encourage elderly people to remain in the workforce.
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Japan&#39;s Cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft 82.18 trillion yen (US$788.7 billion; euro594.62 billion) national budget for fiscal 2005, increasing overall spending to care for an aging population but trimming general and defense outlays.
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Japanâs ruling party was expected to push into law a bill to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is girding for a showdown in parliament over naval back-up for U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan, but voters say they would rather he focused on pensions and healthcare.
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Japan may say it found its 15th case of mad cow disease in an animal found in Mie prefecture, Kyodo News said, citing the local government.
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In Japan, where one fifth of the population is now over 65, a preview of a global future.
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Japan will survey conditions at all of its 5,000 nursing homes after seven elderly residents at one institution died of stomach flu caused by a highly contagious virus, the health ministry said.
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Mid America Convalescent Center is one of a growing number of Chicago-area nursing homes that assemble residents by ethnicity. Asians live on one floor, Hispanics are on another.
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Japan has confirmed a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- the third discovery of the brain-wasting illness in the country this year.