Tokyo sets snowless record
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Tokyo has set a record for its longest snowless winter amid growing worldwide concerns about global warming, according to meteorologists.
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"They now probably beat all records so far. A year ago the situation was similarly tough"  RUSSIAN trucks have queued up for 100 kilometers at the Finnish border ahead of the holiday season, prompting the Nordic nation to ask the European Union for help eliminating the record blockage. via Shanghai Daily
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Qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix scheduled for Saturday was postponed Friday because a typhoon was approaching the area. Race organizers and Formula One moved pre-qualifying and
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Japan's industrial output hits a record level, as the world's second-largest economy continues to recover.
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TOKYO : Powerful typhoon Chaba, packing winds of up to 90 miles (144 kilometres) per hour, pounded Japan&#39;s main southern island of Kyushu, killing at least two people and injuring more than 30.
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TOKYO : One person is dead and four others are missing as Japan&#39;s biggest typhoon in more than a decade pounded the south of the country with heavy rain and powerful winds, officials said.
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ATHENS -- Hardened by grueling hill work in the Swiss mountains and undeterred by the punishing Athens heat, Mizuki Noguchi seized a second straight gold medal for Japan in the women's Olympic marathon yesterday.
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Japan's typhoon record was broken with a bang this week as battering winds and mountainous waves overturned ocean-going freighters.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 jolted Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday, but officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries and no tsunami warning was issued.
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The focus of the initial quake was in the Niigata prefecture, some 150 miles north of Tokyo. The jolts, including aftershocks of magnitude up to 6.3 on the Richter scale, were also felt strongly in the capital.
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Five people were dead and four still  missing Sunday as Japan began a clean-up after the most  powerful typhoon to hit the Tokyo region in a decade.
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moving northeast over large parts of the country including Tokyo, with winds up to 67 miles per hour. Media reports said at least nine had died, but public broadcaster NHK said the toll had reached 11.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 shook northern Japan on Monday in the same area where the country&#39;s deadliest quake in nine years killed at least 23 people two days ago and injured more than 2,000.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Thousands of weary and frightened  residents of northern Japan were spending a second night in  shelters, cars or in the open on Sunday after Japan's deadliest  earthquake in nine years killed at least 21 people.
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Tokyo was shaken by an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.8 late this morning, Japan&#39;s Meteorological Agency said on its Web site.
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Typhoon Tokage is moving toward Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The storm has been blamed for at least seven deaths, Kyodo News reported.
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Braving near freezing temperatures, thousands of residents of northern Japan camped outside tonight, unnerved by aftershocks from the nation&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade