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Fukuda is out - who is next?
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It amazes me that despite all our home-grown problems, particularly Japan's pension and health care fiascos, the government can still pull $560 million out of its backside to fight Aids and other diseases in Africa. That brings Japan's contributions to $1.5 billion since 2002.rnrnDo taxpayers
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A Barack Obama "CHANGE" poster was hanging in the front window of a local Shinjuku Japanese-style curry shop. I stopped to wonder if the owners of the shop were showing their support for the candidate or if they were using his poster to promote their curry shop? Google map to shop included.
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Or is he? What do you think of Tokyo's controversial governor, Shintaro Ishihara? Are you surprised that he's been elected as governor three times?
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Place your bets!
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A quick and interesting article by Joi Ito about prime minister Aso's cement company connections. Also mentions Dogs and Demons, an excellent book from what I've heard.
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Banning a condom ad over the Takeshima island dispute with Korea? The connection is a stretch but maybe they don't want egg all over their trains, literally.
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The latest in Japan's clash with anti-whaling environmentalists.
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What really happened on 9/11 is a matter of much debate. From outside the US, I believe we can look at the events a little more objectively, and that was demonstrated on January 10th when Councilor Fujita of the Democratic Party of Japan was given time in the Japanese Diet to present his findings t
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武島 (Takeshima) is a group of disputed islets situated between Japan and South Korea. The South Korean government claims this patch of land is sovereign territory, and Japan says the same. But who is the rightful nation to this semi-appealing collection of rocks?
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Have you ever wondered what information the government uses to determine how serious their foreign crime problem is? I know I have. After a little bit of digging through the government statistics pages and a little bit of Google, I've managed to put together a pretty compelling case for the rate
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A Molotov cocktail was thrown in the garden and burned itself out in the early hours of Monday, said Okinawan police official Yasuhiko Yoshinaga. No one was injured in the attack.
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About 13,000 protesters gathered at a park near the port of Yokosuka, just south of the capital, where the USS George Washington aircraft carrier will be based, media reports and organizers said on Saturday.
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A respected carpet-weaver in Iran has dedicated some of his carpets to UNESCO, the International Paralympic Commitee and Japan. The carpet given to Japan shows the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on one side and global reconstruction on the other. What do you guys make of this? Iran seems to be reachin
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Japan has decided to annul a plan to send troops to war-stricken Afghanistan due to fears over the rising violence in the country.
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