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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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The airline commonly known as JAL said late Monday that three unions representing the cockpit crew, cabin attendants and others, have warned that they will hold a one-day strike Wednesday over the y... |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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The global credit crisis is casting a dark cloud over Japan's automakers. With tumbling exports, Japan's parts makers are especially feeling the pinch. Nissan Motor, less than a month after announcin... |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Jeremy Gaunt I Reuters LONDON: Japan became the latest major economy to fall into recession yesterday with France close behind, and the IMF said it needed at least $100 billion to fight an economic cr... |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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SINGAPORE: The Socceroos are gunning to keep their 100 per cent World Cup qualifying record intact in Bahrain tomorrow, while Japan have injury worries ahead of their critical match in Doha against Qa... |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Japan became the latest country yesterday to succumb to the disintegrating global markets and fall into recession, its first since the technology bubble burst seven years ago. This follows less t... |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Sunrise is at least an hour away when Atsushi Sasaki steers his fishing boat out of Oma and into the notorious straits separating Japan's mainland from its northernmost island, Hokkaido.By the time he... |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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A mining exploration lobby group predicts Japan's recession will result in a boost in Japanese investment in Australian resource exploration. It was declared yesterday that Japan's economy is officia... |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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TOKYO - The mother ship in Japan's whaling fleet left Monday for the country's annual hunt in the Antarctic, the environmental group Greenpeace said, as anti-whaling activists vowed to disrupt the exp... |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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TOKYO: Japan's economy shrank 0.1 per cent in the third quarter, sending the world's second-biggest economy into recession for the first time in seven years and lagging market expectations for anae... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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AUSTRALIA: November 18, 2008 CANBERRA - Australia urged Japan to abandon its yearly whale hunt on Monday, launching its own scientific whaling study in the Southern Ocean to prove it was not necessa... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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JAPAN: November 18, 2008 TOKYO - The main ship in the whaling fleet of Japan, the world's biggest whaling nation, set out for the Antarctic on Monday for its annual hunt, Greenpeace said, amid criti... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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YOKOHAMA — A former guard in his 30s at the Yokohama Prison in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, was reprimanded for locking up an inmate in his 20s in a garbage dump inside the prison and calling... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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TOKYO — Japan will uncork the first 2008 Beaujolais Nouveau this week but sales are likely to fall for a second straight year due to a higher price tag and the economic crisis, industry officia... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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FUKUOKA (Kyodo) Yokozuna Hakuho retained his share of the lead with a bread-and-butter win over Georgian grappler Tochinoshin at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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INDORE, India (AP) Yuvraj Singh plundered England's attack for his second successive century and then took four wickets to lead India to a 54-run victory Monday in the second limited-overs internation... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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The 10-time Olympic medalist has officially retired from swimming and turned his attention to a new challenge: helping those with diabetes lead long, productive lives. Hall, who suffers from the dis... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Yokohama BayStars right-hander Daisuke Miura declared his intention Monday to file for free agency, saying he is open to hearing from other clubs before finishing his career as a base... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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HAMILTON, Scotland (Kyodo) Shunsuke Nakamura scored his fourth goal of the season as Celtic beat 10-man Hamilton Academicals 2-1 on Sunday, but the sheen was taken off the win after the playmaker aggr... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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NEW YORK (AP) The losing streak felt like "two or three months" to Dirk Nowitzki, so the Dallas Mavericks didn't mind having to go a few extra minutes to end it. |
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