Toru Kawabe Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent
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A day after Sunday&#39;s powerful earthquake, Japanese tourists who escaped the disaster at a hotel in the southern Thai resort island of Phuket described terrifying scenes when a tsunami hit the island.
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Â· Change of strategy after spokeswoman resignsÂ· Couple consult former News of the World editor
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged the captors of Shosei Koda in Iraq to set him free. In an interview to Aljazeera&#39;s correspondent in Tokyo on Wednesday, he said, &quot;Koda is a civilian who
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Ex presidente Fed ha parlato in videoconferenza a Tokyo
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Astana- Tokyo, September 27 KAZINFORM referring to Jiji Press--North Korea has corrected its information about Megumi Yokota, a Japanese citizen suspected to be kidnapped by North Korean agents decades ago, Japanese government officials said Sunday night.
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TOKYO -- To glimpse the brave new Japan of Shinzo Abe -- the hawkish 51-year-old poised to replace Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister next week -- take a peek inside the eighth-grade history classes at this city's prestigious Tamagawa Academy.
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By Mark Landler and John Markoff John Markoff reported from San Francisco. Steven Lee Myers contributed reporting from Moscow.
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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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Model-turned-actor Milind Soman has recently completed shooting for a Japanese film.
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Japan&#39;s Asahi Shimbun reported from Washington on Thursday that Charles Kartman, executive director of the Korean Energy Development Organization (KEDO), would make a four-day trip to Pyongyang beginning Saturday.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda, center, is surrounded by reporters as he speaks on a body found in Iraq at the prime minister&#39;s official residence in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Yinchuan, Feb.
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(State Department) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell and Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura held a 90-minute working lunch in Tokyo October 24, exchanging views on Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, China, UN reform, and Japan&#39;s insistence that
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Japan&#39;s new prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda,  won nearly 60 percent support in the first public opinion poll  published since the seasoned moderate took office, double that  of his predecessor.
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Japan has confirmed a new case of mad cow disease, the third discovery of the brain-wasting illness in the country this year. Â¡Â¡A prefectural spokesman says the 5-year-old
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Two reporters and a director at public broadcaster NHK are being investigated by Japan's securities watchdog for suspected insider trading using information from an internal editing system, Kyodo news agency reported NHK as saying on Thursday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Japan Lends To Environment, Development Projects in SW China" - Xinhua headline]  Guiyang, Feb.