Famous scofflaws hit Japan
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TOKYO  For a country that shut out foreigners for hundreds of years, Japan has proved strangely attractive for problem migrants of late.
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Less than a week after celebrating a World Series title, Manny Ramirez is in Japan for more baseball -- and a little sushi. Ramirez, Boston Red Sox teammate David Ortiz and 26 other major league players arrived
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Japan has one of the world&#39;s most sophisticated systems to predict disasters, but there is always room for help from the animal kingdom.
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Typhoon Tokage, the 23rd tropical storm of this season, may pass through Japan&#39;s main islands this week. The typhoon, which the Japan Meteorological Agency describes as ``extra
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Japan, one of the world's most  seismically active nations, on Friday began an alert system  using satellites to instantly transmit warnings of natural  disasters, such as tsunami, to speed up evacuations.
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: A powerful tropical storm battered southern Japan on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 38 as it whipped up waves and winds that damaged homes, downed
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As Matsuzaka signs a huge contract with the Boston Red Sox, some Japanese fans worry about losing all their superstars. Others are just proud
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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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Fifty years after he first lumbered  from the sea to breathe fire, trample cities and thrill  generations of filmgoers, Japan's most famous movie monster,  Godzilla, was honored on Monday with a star on the Hollywood  Walk of Fame.
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Anti-whaling activists hunted a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, intent on ramming its flagship, as pro-whaling nations met in Tokyo to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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severed head of a man found in Baghdad were of Koda. Newspapers reported his killing. Japan on October 23, killing at least 36 people and forcing 100,000 from their homes.
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Typhoon Tokage, the biggest tropical storm to hit Japan in more than a decade, killed as many as 57 people as it destroyed homes and caused mudslides.
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Typhoon Chaba was approaching Japan and was expected to bring heavy rain and high winds to large areas in southwestern regions over the weekend, officials said.
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TOKYO - A powerful typhoon raked Japan's Pacific coastline Saturday, killing at least two people and leaving at least five others missing in the most powerful storm to hit the nation in a decade, officials said.    Ma-on, which means horse saddle in Cantonese, was the record eighth typhoon to reach Japan's shores this year...
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In a move that Moscow has criticized, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has sailed close to Russian-held islands that Japan claims as its own.
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Japan has a new nursing home for a swiftly graying population &#151; dogs.
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Ichiro Suzukiâs attempt to break George Sislerâs season hits record is not only big for baseball, but also for Japanese players all over the world.