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Sales of the Prius, which was remodeled in mid-May, jumped 258 percent to 22,292 units from the year-earlier month, data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association showed. That put the gas-sipping car above Suzuki Motor Corp's WagonR, which is categorised...
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Former world record holder Paul Tergat produced a late spurt to win the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on Sunday. The Kenyan pulled away from Spaniard Jose Rios with around one kilometer remaining and never looked back, crossing the finish line at Ojiyama...
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Kanagawa Gov. Shigefumi Matsuzawa said Friday he will present to the prefectural assembly later this month a proposal for Japan's first local ordinance to ban smoking or set up separate smoking areas in public facilities as well as restaurants and hotels....
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Panasonic Corp. said Wednesday it will launch Feb. 13 two ''tough'' high-end laptop personal computers that the company claims will not break even if they are dropped from a height of 90 centimeters. The Toughbook CF-19 uses light-emitting diodes...
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A 68-year-old Canadian man has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing two Cambodian sisters aged 10 and 12 in a popular seaside resort town, police said Wednesday. Daniel Lavigne was arrested at a bus station in Sihanoukville on Monday, a day after...
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The International Whaling Commission will next month start negotiations in a bid to find a compromise over restrictions on whale hunting, a newspaper said Saturday. A working-level meeting is expected to be held in Europe as early as December to discuss...
Tags: Japan, whale meat, Kyodo News International, U.S, Morimoto Co., Iceland
Hokkaido (Kyodo) Azuma Yano shot his second straight 4-under-par 68 Friday to move into a tie for the lead with first-round leader Kim Kyung Tae and tour veteran Hiroyuki Fujita at the halfway point of the ANA Open. Yano, winless since his first career...
a suspected pirate mother ship in the Gulf of Aden. Pirates fired at a ship sailing under an Iranian flag and boarded it around 2:20 a.m. local time Thursday (10:20 p.m. ET Wednesday), said Noel Chong, head of the International Chamber of Commerce's Piracy...
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The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine La Jolla called Monday at the U.S. naval base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, after another U.S. nuclear-powered sub was found to have leaked a small amount of radioactivity at the port in March. The 6,080-ton La...
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