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Mongolian-born Kyokutenho became the oldest wrestler in the modern era to win his career first title with a victory over Tochiozan in a playoff on the final day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday.

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G-8 first-timers Noda, Hollande share concerns over European debt crisis

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda urges new French President Francois Hollande to make further efforts with other European leaders to get a grip on the eurozone debt crisis as they make their G-8 debuts.

Tone River water said normal upstream

The Gunma Prefectural Government reports that formaldehyde levels in the upper part of the Tone River, a major source of Tokyo drinking water, are normal, indicating last week's contamination originated elsewhere else.

'Pink Panther' to face trial in Montenegro over 2007 Ginza heist

A member of the "Pink Panther" gang is sent to Montenegro to face trial over his alleged role in a $3.6 million jewelry heist in Tokyo's Ginza district in 2007.

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After the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 last year, the performance of the spectacularly tall Tokyo Sky Tree going up in the capital's downtown Sumida Ward became a subject of heightened interest to experts, residents and the general ...

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Will the world soon wake up to the scent of Perfume?

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When the Nippon Budokan was built in 1964, its architects probably never envisaged it one day resembling a massive nightclub filled with hundreds of laser beams in every shade of neon as three women in lightup minidresses danced like finely ...

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The Muppets franchise gets a thorough dusting off and a major makeover in "The Muppets," but it's probably the parents, and not the kids, who will most appreciate the effort. This is the first Muppets movie to come out since ...

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Nowhere does tonkatsu like Tonki. Of all the restaurants in Tokyo that serve those ever-popular cutlets of breaded, deep-fried pork — and they number in their thousands — nowhere stands out quite the way Tonki does. ...

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Dancer to honor late artist who balked at death

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Shusaku Arakawa (1936-2010) was an enigmatic man. The late Japan-born, New York-based artist and his partner, Madeline Gins, once jointly declared they had decided "not to die," and even added that it was "immoral" for people to have to die. ...

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