Japan marks bullet train's 40th
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Ceremonies are held in Japan to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of the world's first high-speed railway service.
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TONY EASTLEY: The Japanese Government says it will continue its mission in Iraq, despite the beheading of one of its citizens. The troop deployment is unpopular in Japan, but surprisingly, the political fallout
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Tokyo has played host to an exhibition showcasing the latest attractions for gamers.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he wants Japan&#39;s economy to recover ``at a steady pace&#39;&#39; as the central bank released redesigned Japanese bank notes for the first time in 20 years.
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A car is overturned in a damaged Route 117 in Ojiya, northwest of Tokyo, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004. A barrage of powerful quakes jolted the region Saturday evening, killing at least 16 people, toppling buildings and injuring more than 900 others.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Japan resumed rescue efforts at  first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the area where the  country's deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 23  people and injured more than 2,000 at the weekend.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, Feb. 8 Kyodo - Mitsui and Co.
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BEIJING - A consortium of Japanese firms led by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. won a $12 billion contract to provide high-speed trains to China, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
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Japan was on edge after powerful earthquakes left 17 people dead or missing, injured hundreds and derailed a bullet train for the first time in history, within days of the country's worst typhoon in a quarter century.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Japan resumed full-scale rescue  efforts at first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the  area where the country's deadliest earthquake in nine years  killed at least 23 people and injured more than 2,000.
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First drives due to ship in Japan in November.
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Japan&#39;s northern prefecture of Niigata, struck on Saturday by the country&#39;s deadliest temblor since 1995, was today rocked by fresh earthquakes strong enough to sway buildings in Tokyo.
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Japan and South Korea, long at odds over their wartime history, should be linked by a railway tunnel under the sea symbolising peaceful ties, a group of Japanese lawmakers was reported as saying on Friday.
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The country of Japan revels in Ichiro Suzuki's record-breaking season.
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Images of the ceremonies held to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Japan paves the way for an increase to its minimum wage, the first major change in more than 40 years.
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China marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of war against Japan on Saturday with a U.S.-made film documenting Japanese wartime atrocities opening in theatres nationwide and schoolchildren holding a candlelight vigil.