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Volcano covers Japanese city in ash
A clean-up operation has begun in Japan after an eruption at a volcano covered an entire city with ash. Footage shows Mount Sakurajima spewing the dark plume 5,000m into the air. It's the 500th eruption this year.
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New Leak Reported At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the plant, says about 80,000 gallons of contaminated water have spewed from a metal holding tank. The leak is reportedly the largest of several at the tsunami-damaged facility.
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Can Japan reboot its anti-innovation start-up culture?
Japan has long been hailed as one of the world’s most developed nations. But when it comes to innovation, things are less rosy. Why is it stifling its start-ups?
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Latest Radioactive Leak at Fukushima: How Is It Different?
The latest leakage at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant comes from a different, more contaminated water source and raises new questions about TEPCO's ability to manage the crisis.
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Fukushima's Radioactive Plume to Reach U.S. by 2014
A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, according to a new study
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Japanese E-Commerce Giant Rakuten Confirms Acquisition Of Video Site Viki
Rakuten has confirmed that it will acquire Viki, a global video streaming platform that crowdsources translated subtitles. The Japanese e-commerce giant, which is expected to sign an agreement to buy Viki tomorrow, did not disclose financial terms, but is reportedly paying $200 million.
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Japan unveils $500 million ice wall plan for Fukushima water leaks
Tokyo on Tuesday unveiled a half-billion dollar plan to stem radioactive water leaks at Fukushima, creating a wall of ice underneath the stricken plant, as the government elbowed the operator aside.
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Vino Spa anyone?
Take a deep breath. Relax. Then step into the hot tub full of wine. Wait, what? At Yunessun Spa Resort in Hakone, Japan, customers have the chance to "cleanse" themselves in a variety of unorthodox hot tubs, filled with everything from green tea to red wine to sake.
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Japanese Man Spends 11 Years Building Giant Beetle Robot
Back in 1997, Japanese machine shop owner Hitoshi Takahashi, then 50 years old, decided to build a giant beetle robot. For the next 11 years, his spare time was spent slowly assembling his 17-ton creation, the Kabutom RX-03. The massive robot is 36 feet long, has two diesel engines, and 6 legs that allow it to lumber along at 2.5 MPH.
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Super-Earth 40 light years away has a water-rich steamy atmosphere
Blue light observations of a super-Earth 40 light years from our planet suggest that it is a world with a thick, steamy water-rich atmosphere. Japanese astronomers used the Subaru telescope to observe planetary transits of the super-Earth, which is located at the centre of the Milky Way.
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Tokyo Will Host the 2020 Summer Olympics
Tokyo will be the host city of the 2020 Olympic Games, announced Jacques Rogges, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), this afternoon in Buenos Aires.
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Japanese professor pushes for Hide and Seek at the Olympics
At 64, Yasuo Hazaki admits he may no longer have the speed of an Olympic athlete, but guile is as important an attribute in his chosen sport - competitive hide-and-seek - and he is lobbying for it be included in the 2020 Games.
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How Tokyo Won Its Bid for the Olympics
Japan managed to beat historic Turkey for the 2020 Olympics.
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KFC Japan Offering Deep-Fried Corn Soup
Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan is currently offering fried soup, a strange limited-time concoction that makes deep-fried fritters out of balls of creamy corn potage soup. RocketNews24 reports that corn potage soup is currently very trendy in Japan and that KFC was inspired to create the fried soup from a recipe for potato bacon fritters discovered in founder Colonel Sanders‘ autobiography.
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Tokyo Chef Makes Art With Sushi Rolls
Tokyo-based sushi chef Tama-chan creates works of art with rolls of sushi. By arranging the rice (which is often colored) and other ingredients inside the seaweed exterior, he is able to create images which are exposed when he slices the roll.
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Japan launches 'affordable' rocket
Japan has launched the first in a new generation of space rockets, hoping the design will make missions more affordable.
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Japan to switch off last nuclear reactor
The move will leave Japan nuclear power-free for second time since 2011 Fukushima crisis.
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Rubbery Japanese Lips Claim To Slim Your Face, Definitely Make You Look Stupid
Japan Trend Shop is a web retailer that sells - among other things - a whole bunch of wacky health and beauty products that offer unconventional alternatives to plastic surgery.
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The Fukushima Generation: New Data on Birth Defects in Post-Meltdown Japan
New unpublished data reveals a slight rise in birth defects in post-nuclear-meltdown Japan. Jake Adelstein and Nathalie Stucky report on this exclusive data—and what Japan needs to do next to understand the health impact.
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Tokyo Electric seeks to restart world's largest nuclear plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co on Friday applied to restart a nuclear plant in northwestern Japan, an initial step on its planned recovery from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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