Officials left blushing over Japan blossom glitch
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Japanese weather officials have been left red-faced after a computer glitch led to incorrect forecasts for the start of the cherry blossom season.
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TOKYO The Japanese government has convened an emergency session. This, after a report that a body believed to be Asian was discovered in Iraq.
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US and South Korean officials are still trying to determine the cause of a huge cloud that appeared over North Korea last week. On Sunday South Korean media reported seeing satellilte
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By Qiu Quanlin  GUANGZHOU: Officials fro
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CHIANG SAEN, Thailand, Sept. 6 -- Japan's Princess Kiko gave birth Wednesday to a male heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne, ending a potential crisis of succession in the world's oldest continuous monarchy and likely forestalling a heated debate over whether female royals should be granted the right to...
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New York gets a chrysanthemum exhibition fit for Japanese royalty.
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When Kiyoshi Baba stopped a top police officer for running a red light in Nepal, he was not only pushing a safety message far from his native Japan, he was also projecting Japanese influence abroad.
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Japan began sending warnings to an estimated 8.5 million people Monday that their pension data may have gone missing, as the government seeks to clean up a scandal that has damaged its credibility.
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Nuclear leaks after Japan's July 16 earthquake awaken insecurities
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - The performance of two fire eaters got a little too hot for Johnson City police, who cited them as a safety hazard at the annual Blue Plum Festival.
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Chinese gamers react angrily to a Japanese video game they say besmirches the heroine of a classic Chinese novel.  Whether it does or not, this latest cross-cultural tiff does nothing to help the historically lousy relations between these two Asian nations.
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Japan's Empress Michiko is being treated for intestinal bleeding and other ailments apparently brought on by stress, and will take a break from her duties, a palace official said Tuesday.
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Japanese wife, Hitomi Soga, resolving a diplomatic headache for Japan and its close ally, the United States. Japan has asked for leniency out of sympathy for Jenkins wife.
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Holograms and kaleidoscopes of shimmering  colors will be part of Japan's latest hi-tech response to the  growing number of banknote counterfeiting cases troubling  authorities.
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Japan protested to Moscow after a Russian  military plane intruded into Japanese air space over the Izu  Islands south of Tokyo on Saturday, a Japanese foreign ministry  official said.
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Citigroup&#39;s top executive in Japan endured unprecedented questioning by lawmakers on Tuesday over a scandal at the firm&#39;s private bank in the country, the latest turn in a high-profile case that has embarrassed the world&#39;s biggest
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Japanese officials rushed on Friday to dismiss suggestions that the emperor overstepped his authority and meddled in government affairs by voicing his opposition to Tokyo schools' policy of compulsory patriotism.