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The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
About 45 minutes from Tokyo’s skyscrapers, resting in the hinterlands of Tachikawa there is a land of mist and dragons. It’s a place where rolling hills tumble toward an Aztec pyramid, and children bounce on clouds. The place is called Showa Kinen Koen, and ...
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
Sophie Calle is an enigma. She is an artist, writer, photographer and filmmaker yet doesn’t work exclusively in any of these areas. She has become famous for her work in photography but her objects and later films have drawn equal attention — work that ...
LeBron James, Ray Allen and Chris Bosh come up big down the stretch to help the Heat force a Game 7
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Defending champion Tomas Berdych cruised into the quarterfinals of the Japan Open with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Andreas Beck on Thursday.
The fifth-seeded Czech never had his serve broken and recorded 15 aces against his left-handed German opponent at Ariake Tennis Forest Park.
