Japan gets first glance at hairy Hisahito
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Japan has gotten its first glance at Prince Hisahito, the long-awaited new heir to the throne, who had a full head of hair and slept calmly in his mother's arms as he was brought out of the hospital.
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Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz swings his bat before Japanese media during a workout session at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004.
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One of Japan's best-known businessmen pleads not guilty to charges of financial crime as his trial begins in Tokyo.
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Japan was checking a media report on  Friday that an Asian body had been found in Iraq after the  expiry of a deadline set for the beheading of a Japanese youth  whose captors had demanded that Tokyo withdraw its troops.
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TOKYO, Dec. 22 -- Japan reported its first case of bird flu in a human on Wednesday -- a man who got the disease from birds.
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A Japanese company has developed "smile  checker" software that can tell whether someone looks happy,  sad or somewhere in between.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi arrived in Brazil on Tuesday on the first leg of a three-country trip that will also include Mexico and the United States.
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Japan&#39;s ruling party was poised on Sunday  to pick Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian  neighbours, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an  effort to revive party fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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TOKYO: The Japanese government decided on Monday to look at allowing a female to ascend the throne of the worldâs oldest royal line in a move that could ease stress on the crown princess to produce a male heir.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will become the first Japanese leader to address Australia&#39;s parliament when he visits in September, his Australian counterpart John Howard said Monday.
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Japan&#39;s world open-weight champion, aiming to make up for compatriot Kosei Inoue&#39;s shock loss in a lighter men&#39;s division, defeated Yury Rybak.
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Japan sees first Travel, Mobile Media Companions
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Japan's long-awaited male heir to its Chrysanthemum throne was named Hisahito &#151; meaning "virtuous, calm and everlasting" &#151; in an age-old imperial rite in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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Japan's new Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and his cabinet are formally sworn in by Emperor Akihito.
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Will Japanese PM stir controversy with his New Year's day visit to a shrine honoring war criminals?
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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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A body resembling a Japanese hostage has  been found in Iraq and is being shipped to Qatar for  identification, Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa  Takashima told a news conference early on Saturday.