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GOLD

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 8, 2013
Tanaka's gold sales hot as bull run, yen cool
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., Japan's biggest bullion retailer, said sales to local investors may exceed purchases this year for the first time since 2004 as lower prices and the yen's weakness spur buying interest.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 4, 2013
Hedge fund guru John Paulson fleeced by gold
Gold and its beguiling promise of assured riches have lured clever men into making bad decisions for millennia. The latest to have fallen under its alchemical spell is apparently John Paulson, hedge fund billionaire and the man who made his name — and a $5 billion profit — betting against that other...
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 18, 2011
There's gold in them there wardrobes!
More people are mining closets and wardrobes for the precious metals they might contain.
EDITORIALS
Apr 10, 2007
A view toward enshrinement
Documents on Yasukuni Shrine recently released by the National Diet Library shows that the then Health and Welfare Ministry actively involved itself in the enshrinement process for Japan's war dead at Yasukuni Shrine, including Class-A war criminals. The close relationship between the government and...

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.