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National › Man files lawsuit against TEPCO following wife’s suicide
May 19, 2012
A man from Fukushima Prefecture has filed a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) claiming the utility created the conditions that caused the suicide of his wife.
According to government figures, there have been over 60 suicides in the Tohoku region since last year’s earthquake and tsunami, which triggered……
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May 19, 2012
Constitutional debate is vital to resolve the Maldives’ current political turmoil, but it should not dominate the agenda of the country’s politicians “to the exclusion of all else”, writes Dr Hassan Saeed for local newspaper Haveeru….
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National › ‘Social Manga’ project calls for 1,000 panels by 1,000 people
May 19, 2012
If you’ve ever wanted to contribute a panel to manga history, now is your chance: a collaborative project called “Social Kingdom” launched in Japan on Friday that lets anyone with a Twitter or Facebook account redraw a single panel from the 26th volume of Yasuhisa Hara’s historical manga series Kingdom.……
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National › Japanese whalers leave for Pacific
May 19, 2012
A pair of Japanese whaling vessels left Friday for the northwestern Pacific aiming to catch 260 whales for “scientific research,” a fisheries ministry official said.
The Yushin Maru and Yushin Maru No. 2 departed from Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi, western Japan, to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru, which has……
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National › JR East to remove graffiti from walls, pillars next to train lines
May 18, 2012
East Japan Railway Co (JR East) has announced plans to spend 80 million yen on anti-graffiti measures in the coming years.
According to a company spokesperson, JR East plans to remove the graffiti from walls and pillars next to train lines, before coating them with a glossy, anti-graffiti paint. The……
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…National › M4.8 quake jolts Kanto region
May 18, 2012
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 hit the Kanto region on Friday, shaking buildings in Tokyo.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no tsunami warnings were issued after the quake which struck at 5:19 p.m.
The epicenter was at a depth of 50 kilometers……
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National › Gov’t unveils power-saving plan to avoid blackouts for summer
May 18, 2012
The government on Friday urged businesses and consumers in the western part of the country to cut power use by at least 15% this summer to cope with shortages after the shutdown of all of Japan’s nuclear reactors following the Fukushima crisis.
The government said that it aimed to avoid……
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National › Melons fall short at only Y1 million for two
May 18, 2012
A box set of two cantaloupe melons has been sold at auction in Japan for one million yen, but in a possible sign of the financial times, went for less than half the all-time record.
An unknown buyer snapped up the Yubari melons on the first day of the buying……
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National › Japan launches first commercial satellite
May 18, 2012
Japan successfully put a South Korean satellite into space Friday, in its first foray into the European- and Russian-dominated world of commercial launches.
The H-IIA rocket took off from the southern island of Tanegashima on schedule at 1:39 a.m., according to live images relayed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency……
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