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Close encounters: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson holds a bullet he claims hit him, which he says was fired by the Japanese Coast Guard during a clash between his group and the Japanese whaling vessel the Nisshin Maru, in March 2008. On Saturday, the Sea Shepherd's Bob Barker boat escaped with a gash down its hull after a collision with the Yushin Maru No. 3. AP/SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY

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Kirin-Suntory merger talks break down

By KAZUAKI NAGATA

Kirin Holdings and Suntory Holdings say their tieup negotiations failed because they could not agree on the merger ratio.

JAL favors oneworld, American

Japan Airlines is expected to remain in the oneworld grouping led by American Airlines and drop plans to ally with Delta Air Lines and its SkyTeam members.

Hatoyama says Ozawa can stay

By ALEX MARTIN and JUN HONGO

DPJ kingpin Ichiro Ozawa is given the go sign to remain as the party's secretary general by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama despite mounting public calls that he step down over his fund management body's involvement in a shady Tokyo land purchase.

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Humidity: 50%

Winds: NNE at 11 kph

Pressure: 1013 hpa

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Saints win first Super Bowl

The New Orleans Saints brush off their eternal underdog tag by winning their first Super Bowl.

SPORTS SCOPE

Loaded Giants must be wary of egos during 2010 season

By JASON COSKREY

SOCCER

Drogba strikes twice as Chelsea rolls past Arsenal

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Brushing with authority

By NOBUKO TANAKA

I will never forget the day I went to a show titled "Embracing Asia: Taeko Tomiyama Retrospective 1950-2009," which was one of 370 art exhibits by creators from 40 countries comprising the fourth Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial staged over 50 days ...

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Sorge's spy is brought in from the cold

By EDAN CORKILL

LIFE IN JAPAN

Secrets and lies

By DAVID McNEILL

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Spring blooms early in art world

By ANDREW MAERKLE

Seasons play an important role in Japanese culture, which has long celebrated the appreciation of ephemeral beauty as a reflection of life itself. One of the most important seasons in Japan is New Year's, a time for families to gather ...

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Kazura

Losers hit jackpot in comedy stakes

By MARK SCHILLING

The odds of two brilliant Japanese comedies opening the same day are high but not impossible, somewhat like the odds of the same director (James Cameron) making two all-time worldwide box-office hits ("Titanic" and that other film about blue aliens). ...

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Saints win first Super Bowl

Loaded Giants must be wary of egos during 2010 season

Drogba strikes twice as Chelsea rolls past Arsenal

Brushing with authority

Sorge's spy is brought in from the cold

Secrets and lies

Spring blooms early in art world

Losers hit jackpot in comedy stakes

My funny valentine? Well, this one ain't

Bumps in night, yes; mindless killing, no

Shabu-shabu in modernist mode

There's nothing fusty about the Nezu Museum's new cafe

Tokyo's burger joints have never been better

Go to where your cup runneth over

Rags and riches by the Myoshoji

Adachi still lifes are sure to grow on you

Shrine offers up rare porridge

Art, games at 61st Sapporo Snow Festival

Design graduates catch a big break at Tokyo's Ozone showroom

World Chocolate Master's sweets

Zero Gravity

Noodles

Ozawa, wife worth ¥2 billion

Abbas stresses resuming peace talks

14 prefectures oppose foreign vote

Hokkaido inmates making trash cages

Nonsmokers' soy intake pays off

Business community donates 2,000 cherry trees to Shanghai

Reports and practical info about the H1N1 influenza virus

Toyota confident it has loyal customers

Is Japan-bashing behind Toyota's U.S. woes?

U.S., Japan recalls of Prius near

Can Greece outrun the lion of default?

Arms deal chills U.S.-China ties

Toyota's moment of crisis

Watson to whalers: We will never surrender

What do you make of yokozuna Asashoryu's shock announcement that he will retire?

'Otaku' turns passion for collecting into gold mine

Journalist gives voice to voiceless

The ABCs of living in Japan

Men miss out on Valentine's chocolate as women treat themselves

Design for keeping everything warm and just so

Fruit vendor Takahiko Takahashi

This 'Garden of Painting' needs to be perennial

G-tokyo: The 'boutique' art fair

'Water, fire, earth'

Supercell's synthetic pop wins real fans

Brodinski brings French beats to dancefloors

Akademie für Alte Musik

Tomori "Utagoe no Minato"

Shiya wo hirogeru: Time to broaden our horizons

Spouse hunting, politics had us all abuzz in '09

Different folks, different strokes

Entrap, exploit and repeat

Fitting farewells for the poet James Kirkup

Winter warmth, home and away

Saving the planet through its trees

Apple's own e-book approach could cause big headaches

Facebook's virtual farm scores big

Sony forges on with Transfer Jet; Planex device tries to do it all

Japan's techies strive to bridge culture gap

Motivational sport stories, fishermen surviving in a declining industry, and CM of the week: Takefuji

Film series reveals more than just foreign take on Japan

You're in the director's chair for a sci-fi that outlasts 'Avatar'

Study finds government support for media is rapidly shrinking

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