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Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility

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Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility

Up to 30 researchers are feared to have suffered internal radiation exposure after an experiment went awry at a Japan Atomic Energy Agency facility.

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Inaction during 'scandal' will undo a presidency

by John Dean

Few, if any, similarities exist between the redactions of the Benghazi e-mails and the deletions and distortions made by Richard Nixon in his taped conversations.

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Kan Yasuda's tactile art brings new life to Bibai

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Kan Yasuda's tactile art brings new life to Bibai

by Mark Brazil

Sapporo is Hokkaido’s gateway, its administrative capital and by far its largest city, with a population fast approaching 2 million. It sprawls across a huge plain just inland from the mouth of the Ishikari River, and from it a highway network extends outward looking ...

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  • Whatever some say, there's no Japanese-language 'code' to be deciphered
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Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists

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Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists

by Stephen Carr

If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...

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Are we close to understanding bipolar disorder?

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Are we close to understanding bipolar disorder?

by Alexander Linklater

It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of “manic depression.” STRICTLY BIPOLAR, by Darian Leader. Penguin, 2013, 112 pp., £5 (paperback) My brother, Archie, was diagnosed with ...

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Corporal punishment has long history in Japanese sports

Japanese Baseball

Corporal punishment has long history in Japanese sports

Getting slapped by a a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan.

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Fearless foodies? Let them eat dirt

Food & Drink | FOOD MATTERS Mar 29, 2013

Fearless foodies? Let them eat dirt

by Robbie Swinnerton

Soil, dirt, mud … Call it what you like, the not-so-secret special ingredient at some of Japan’s high-end restaurants has a distinctly earthy quality. And over the last couple of months, it’s been getting substantial media attention, both at home and abroad. For that, ...

Japan can learn from the Nordic kitchen

Food & Drink | FOOD MATTERS Nov 30, 2012

Japan can learn from the Nordic kitchen

by Robbie Swinnerton

Food production in Japan is not in great shape. For decades, rural populations have dwindled and local farmers have been undercut by imports, at both the cheap and luxury ends of the market. Current plans to open up Japan’s famously closed farming market through ...

Farmers markets on the rise in Tokyo

Food & Drink | FOOD MATTERS Aug 31, 2012

Farmers markets on the rise in Tokyo

by Robbie Swinnerton

In a city the size of Tokyo, it’s all too easy to be unaware of where your food comes from. Most of what we eat is shipped in from far away, not just the extremities of the country but from all around the world. ...

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