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TOKYO,
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Japan’s Jiroemon Kimura, who had been recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living person and the oldest man ever, died on Wednesday of natural causes.
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NEW DELHI,
Saturday, June 8, 2013
The Railways is all set for a long-term engagement with Japan with the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) granting a Rs.6,700-crore contract for construction of 640-k...
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KUALA LUMPUR,
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
An overloaded ferry capsized on Tuesday when it hit rocks in a remote river in Malaysia’s Borneo, leaving an unknown number of people missing, Malaysian police said. Some survivors swam ashore. »
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TOKYO,
May 28, 2013
A U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter crashed off the southern Japan island of Okinawa early Tuesday after the aircraft developed problems in flight. The pilot ejected and was recovered safely.
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TOKYO,
May 25, 2013
An atomic research lab in northern Japan on Saturday reported a radiation leak that may have affected about 55 people, though none were hospitalised and no impact was expected outside the facility...
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Tokyo,
April 19, 2013
Japan celebrated the birthday of the world’s oldest living person, Jirouemon Kimura, who turned 116 on Friday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent Mr. Kimura a video message to congratulate hi...
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TOKYO,
April 17, 2013
A strong earthquake and about 20 smaller temblors have struck a small volcanic island south of Tokyo, but there is no danger of a tsunami and no injuries have been reported. Japan’s Mete...
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TOKYO,
April 10, 2013
Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka says the plant, which relies on makeshift cooling systems for its broken reactors, remains highly vulnerable.
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April 7, 2013
It was hailed as the boldest of actions yet in the modern monetary policy sphere. Nevertheless, it raised apprehensions across the globe. Will it work? Or, will it spell doom? Even as the debate r...
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April 6, 2013
An erstwhile sleepy ancient town, Rajasthan’s Neemrana has metamorphosed into a favourite destination for Japanese investors
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New York,
April 2, 2013
A magnitude-6.0 undersea earthquake hit off eastern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. No tsunami alert was issued.There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the qua...
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Tokyo,
March 28, 2013
Concrete rubble litters streets lined with shuttered shops and dark windows. A collapsed roof juts from the ground. A ship sits stranded on a stretch of dirt flattened when the tsunami roared acro...
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BEIJING,
March 10, 2013
China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Saturday said the country had “a firm will to defend its territorial sovereignty” and warned of an increasingly “complex” neighbourhood environment amid fes...
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TOKYO,
May 15, 2013
Japan’s nuclear watchdog announced on Wednesday that the nation’s trouble-plagued next generation test reactor will not be allowed to restart due to safety violations, dealing a setback to the cou...
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TOKYO,
April 19, 2013
The Japan Meteorological Agency says a 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck off far northern Japan and far eastern Russia. The tremor around midday on Friday was in the Pacific Ocean at a...
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TOKYO,
April 13, 2013
A strong earthquake shook Japan on Saturday near the southwestern city of Kobe, leaving 23 people injured, seven of them seriously mostly elderly tripping while trying to flee, police said. No one...
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TOKYO,
April 9, 2013
The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant says it has detected a fresh leak of radioactive water from one of the facility’s storage tanks. Tokyo Electric Power Co. previously said...
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TOKYO,
April 6, 2013
The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant said on Saturday that it was moving tonnes of highly radioactive water from a temporary storage tank to another after detecting signs of leakage, in...
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TOKYO,
April 4, 2013
Japan is making a sweeping shift in its monetary policy, aiming to spur inflation and get the world’s third-largest economy out of a long, debilitating slump. Bowing to demands from Prime Mi...
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TOKYO,
March 28, 2013
A Japanese utility has scrapped plans to build a nuclear plant near the site of a nuclear disaster two years ago.Tohoku Electric Power Co. said on Thursday that strong protests from local c...
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Tokyo,
March 11, 2013
Japan on Monday mourned those killed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that also caused the nation’s worst nuclear accident.More than 18,500 people died or went missing in the twin na...
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TOKYO,
March 9, 2013
Thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park on Saturday, demanding an end to atomic power and vowing never to give up the fight, despite two years of little change after the nuclear disaster in no...
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