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Why China’s New Air-Defense Zone Matters
China’s unilateral imposition of its East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) has triggered fear of mistakes that could lead to war with neighboring Japan — and pull the U.S. in as Tokyo’s ally. Who started all this air-defense zoning, anyway?
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How a Tiny Island Chain Explains the China-Japan Dispute
So far, much of the discussion of China's air-defense identification zone (ADIZ), a new law requiring foreign aircraft to notify China when they fly over a designated region in the East China Sea, has centered on Beijing's motivations: What is China trying to accomplish by instituting the zone? And, considering that it triggered immediate opposition from the United States and Japan, was this decision a mistake?
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The 2011 Japan Tsunami Was Caused By Largest Fault Slip Ever Recorded
The largest fault slip ever seen—which touched off the Japanese tsunami—came courtesy of slippery clay that "greased the wheels," say experts.
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Made Me Look: These Beautiful Oil Paint Tubes Are Actually Chocolate!
The Japanese-based design studio Nendo is the visionary behind this amazing edible art, which was designed as a limited edition item for the Seibu Department store in Japan. The set of 12 chocolates is shaped to look like beautiful tubes of oil paint packaged in a sleek brown gift box. Each tube contains a different flavor syrup, from fruity melon and blueberry to sweet honey and vanilla, that’s meant to match the vivid color on each piece’s wrapper (the only part that isn’t edible).
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Harrowing Japanese Ad Comes With An Advisory Warning
When you think of advertisements for cars and tires, you’re reminded of those generic expansive landscape photography commercials, with a scenic setting, zero traffic and an Enya soundtrack in the background. Not so if you’re Autoway, a Japanese tyre company who decided to highlight how good their tyres can be using the forces of the supernatural. With some seriously shocking results.
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Thousands protest in Japan against new state secrets bill
Thousands of people protested in Tokyo against a bill that would see whistleblowing civil servants jailed for up to 10 years. Activists claim the law would help the government to cover up scandals, and damage the country’s constitution and democracy.
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Japan Keeps Executing Prisoners Without Giving Them Any Warning
Two death row inmates in Japan were killed today, following a controversial procedure where inmates are given a just a few hours notice before they are hanged, and relatives are not notified until the prisoners are already dead. Ryoji Kagayama and Mitsuo Fujishima were the latest condemned inmates to be put to death as part of this controversial "secret execution" program that has been condemned by human rights activists in Japan and abroad.
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The last photo of faithful dog Hachiko breaks our hearts
Dog is man’s best friend, or so the saying goes. Nowadays, it’s sometimes hard to believe those words when your loyal canine is dragging your dirty pants, underwear included, out into the living room for all your guests to see. But one dog in Japan proved his undying loyalty, waiting for his master’s return in the same location every single day for 10 years after his master’s death. The picture above, the last one ever taken of this loveable animal, is one of the saddest things we’ve ever seen.
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Japan lacks decommissioning experts for Fukushima
Japan is incapable of safely decommissioning the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant alone and must stitch together an international team for the massive undertaking, experts say, but has made only halting progress in that direction.
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Japan Man Stole $185,000 To Feed 120 Cats A Gourmet Diet
A Japanese man went on a year-long burglary spree, making off with a haul worth $185,000 to feed 120 cats a gourmet diet, police said Thursday. Mamoru Demizu, 48, is suspected of breaking into houses to steal cash and jewels on 32 separate occasions.
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Civil disobedience on steroids - Stopping Japan's whaling fleet
In an act which amounted to civil disobedience on steroids, a young boat captain named Peter Hammarstedt radioed in calm voice a challenge to the captain of the Nisshin Maru, an 8,000 ton Japanese ...
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New volcanic island off Japan still growing in ongoing eruptions
NASA says satellite photos of a brand new volcanic island that sprang from the ocean near Japan show it has grown in size and may survive for a long period.
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Japan struggles to prove Fukushima fish is safe to eat
The Marine Ecology Research Institute located near the Pacific, in Onjuku, Japan, is testing fish supplies in order to check if it remains safe to eat despite waste water discharge from the nuclear plants.
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Japanese Scientists Prove The Possibility of Teleportation - The Mind Unleashed
The future is already here: for the first time in the world, a team of Japanese scientists managed to implement teleportation! A beam of lightRead More...
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Start-Up Spirit Emerges in Japan
The 20-somethings in jeans sipping espresso and tapping on laptops at this Tokyo business incubator would look more at home in Silicon Valley than in Japan, where for years the surest signs of success were the gray suits of its corporate salarymen. But for those hoping the nation’s latest economic plan will drag Japan from its long malaise, the young men and women here at Samurai Startup Island represent a crucial component: a revival of entrepreneurship.
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Free Chinese-made software poses security risk
A Japanese-language input program — potentially installed on millions of computers, including those used at government agencies — sends every character typed to the software provider’s server without the user’s consent. The Baidu IME program for Windows computers is distributed for free on the Internet by Baidu Japan Inc., the Japanese arm of China’s Baidu Inc., operator of China’s most popular Internet search engine.
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In Textbook Fight, Japan Leaders Seek to Recast History
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s conservative government has begun to pursue a more openly nationalist agenda on an issue that critics fear will push the country farther from its postwar pacifism: adding a more patriotic tone to Japan’s school textbooks. The proposed textbook revisions have drawn less outcry abroad than Mr. Abe’s visit on Thursday to a shrine that honors war dead, including war criminals from World War II.
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Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up
Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men. He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.
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14 haunting portraits of life after nuclear disaster
If you lived near Chernobyl or Fukushima, would you stay?
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The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People to Clean Up Fukushima
The Fukushima cleanup is a boom industry, with a number of shady entities trying to score a piece of the pie.
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