Japanese men girdle up for battle of the bulge
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Japanese men worried about bulging bellies now have another option to cutting back on beer -- slip into a boxer brief girdle or T-shirt with tummy-control panels.
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Japan sought international and Iraqi help for a Japanese man held hostage in Iraq on Thursday, less than 24 hours before a deadline set by his captors to behead him unless Japan withdraws its troops.
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The battle of the bulge has expanded  into the toy aisles.
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Australians try to tame the giant.
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TOKYO - Japan sought international help Wednesday to secure the release of a Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq and pledged to do its utmost to gain his freedom after refusing to bow to the kidnappers&#39; threat to behead him unless Japan withdraws its
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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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Army soldiers are being issued new fatigues with easy-to-use Velcro openings and a redesigned camouflage pattern that can help conceal them as they move rapidly from desert to forest to city in places like Baghdad.
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Newspapers and TV are giving a daily count-down, and Japanese from salarymen to politicians are holding their breath as Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki challenges
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Soldiers wearing heat-retardant clothes and shoes braved searing gas clouds Thursday in an attempt to free two men trapped in an underground shelter covered with lava and debris shot from Indonesia&#039;s most active volcano, officials said.
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U.S. veterans laid wreaths at ceremonies across southern Belgium and Luxembourg on Thursday, marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge, in which U.S. forces defeated Nazi Germany's last bid to reverse the rapid advance of allied forces toward Berlin.
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An unusual flap has erupted between an Army reserve unit and an Iraq-bound reservist who hopes to raise money for military equipment he wants to bring to the war zone.
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to become Japan's new prime minister, called Friday for his country to build a stronger military as a deterrent and to push ahead with economic reforms as candidates launched their campaigns to lead the governing party.
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The Marine Corps is taking on the role of fashion police.
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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Former Sun Bowl Director Sam Jenkins remembers that 60 years ago today, about a million soldiers began the largest land battle of World War II, a deadly fight known as the Battle of the Bulge and Adolf Hitler&#39;s last offensive to defeat the allies.
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Craving sex after repeated rejection by their partners, women who felt doomed to join Japan's growing ranks of the &quot;sexless&quot; are being offered a prescription: a squad of well-dressed men ready to assist free of charge.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Japanese teams fanned out  from their base in Aceh on Saturday to spray ditches and pools  of stagnant water as the country's relief operation in  Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged province reached full strength.