Buddhist Priest From Tokyo Hopes to Hook a Winner FISHING
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By Ray Glier  Shigeru Tsukiyama can flick his wrist and cast a lure to a spot precisely where he wants it to land, which is in the middle of four stumps sticking out of the water.  He can snip a lure from the end of his fishing line and tie on another bait in only 14 seconds.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 17--Today's a special day designated to take dad fishing. After a lifetime of giving and guarding, he's earned recognition.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Learn to move like a shadow and hurl deadly metal stars at your enemies from a Japanese ninja master -- the latest offering for holiday thrill-seekers.
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Japan'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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A handful of small, unknown fish in Lao Wei&#39;s boat account for a whole day&#39;s fishing on the Shaying River. Wei, 60, from Jieshou City of east China&#39;s Anhui Province, used to
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TOKYO -- On a recent business trip to Colorado, Japan's agriculture minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, popped into an inviting Japanese restaurant in the Denver suburbs with a hankering for a taste of back home. What he found instead was something he considered a high culinary crime -- sushi served on...
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By Steve Lynn  By Steve Lynn  SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Vince Meier points at a white crane fishing in the middle of the shallow Kansas River north of Interstate 70 and MacVicar where he and his men used to work.
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MAE SOT, Thailand, Oct. 25 -- The young Buddhist monk arrived here by boat last week from Burma, exhausted and disheveled, with no passport, the stubble of his hair dyed blond for a disguise, and wearing a traditional Burmese longyi wrap instead of his saffron-colored robe. He had to elude capture...
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FLY fisherman Brian Lillie is celebrating a hap
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Science & environment: One of the activists held by Japanese whalers describes his ordeal on the Yushin Maru 2
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By DAVE HOUGHTON  MICK JOHNSON has been in Ireland for his 30th annual holiday, but this time it was a 'freebie' after he won first prize in the Southport & District AA Centenary fishing match.
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Paris, France (Sports Network) - Silver medalist Mardy Fish and Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand were both victorious Monday in opening-round action at the $3.
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CHONG KHNEAS, Cambodia -- A decade ago, Chan Kimoeun could pilot his skiff across the turbid water of the Tonle Sap, stay out for two days and bring home as much as 400 pounds of fish. On this day, he returned from five nights of floating torpor with a mere 50 pounds -- hardly enough to cover the costs of fuel or the rice he cooked during the trip.
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As a stranger draws near,  priest Mesganaw Tarkgn whips on an embroidered cape and raises  an ancient cross in a picture-perfect pose. He is used to the  demands of visitors to one of Ethiopia&#39;s holiest sites.
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By BOB BUEHN  Fishermen dream of the chance to fish a pristine wilderness lake, casting to fish that have never seen a lure.  Most probably imagine a floatplane trip into northern Canada or other remote location.
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Paul Kenyon confronts the drive hunt fishermen of Taiji in Japan and the intermediaries who sell the animals to dolphinariums.
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On the coast of the Japan Sea, two and a half hours by train from Kyoto, is the quiet fishing village of Mihama. Noted for its harbour and beautiful beaches, it draws tourists from all over the country.