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Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military

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Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.

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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

Kan Yasuda's art somehow draws in the landscape, and entices in people, so that it is natural to explore the view through his structures and keyholes, to sit awhile atop a sculpture or to pose within their frames.

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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.”

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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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The Japanese traffic light blues: Stop on red, go on what?

Language | BILINGUAL Feb 25, 2013

The Japanese traffic light blues: Stop on red, go on what?

by Peter Backhaus

Road traffic in Japan is a complicated affair. Apart from those narrow, crooked streets that sometimes end without warning, you have to get used to unclear right-of-way rules and the national fetish for backward parking.

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