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No US Plans to Stop Korea on ICBM Test
New York Times
“If we had an aberrant missile one that was headed for Hawaii that looked like it was headed for Hawaii or something like that we might consider it” Mr. ne of America’s closest allies in the region Japan has authorized its military to shoot down any debris from the rocket that might fall toward its territory and has joined the United States and South Korea in saying the launching is a cover for testing technology for a long-range missile that could carry a nuclear warhead. Japan deployed two Aegis vessels to waters off its west coast at the weekend with an order to prepare to shoot down any debris that could fall on Japanese territory if the rocket launch fails. South Korea is also dispatching an Aegis-equipped Sejong the Great destroyer off the east coast. Dave Palmer a spokesman for the American military in Seoul declined to unveil the missions for two Aegis radar-equipped destroyers — USS.

Zeltia to license Yondelis in Japan shares rise
Reuters
3 percent (Adds quote share price) MADRID March 30 (Reuters) - Spanish biotechnology firm Zeltia (ZEL. MC)’s PharmaMar unit said on Monday its has signed an agreement with Taiho Pharmaceutical.

Japan Hot Stocks-Tech shares automakers Mizuho Nitto Denko
Forbes
The dollar was down 0. 8 percent against the Japanese currency at 97. Electronics parts maker.

World stocks fall amid renewed auto banking fears
The Associated Press
Earlier in Asia Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average sank 390. 08 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slid 663.
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Classic Bobby Valentine: Waiting for a Call
New York Times
He may still be managing in Japan in 2013 he may be managing in the United States or he may not be managing at all. Wherever Valentine is his familiarity with managing in both countries would make him an appealing choice. Since winning the first two Classics with its disciplined style Japan is the team to beat. The Japanese have durable pitchers they rarely make mistakes they are smart and they are aggressive. If the Americans aim to defeat Japan the 58-year-old Valentine has the experience.

Japan’s ASDF starts moving missile units northeastward ahead of …
Xinhua
The ASDF’s Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles units are expected to back up the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s (MSDF) Aegis guided-missile destroyers and shoot down possible rocket fragments that may fall on the areas in case that the destroyers fail to intercept the rocket. n Saturday the MSDF destroyers Kongou and Choukai both equipped with Standard Missile-3 ballistic missile interceptors departed from their base in Sasebo Nagasaki Prefecture for the Sea of Japan to intercept the rocket if the launch goes awry. Meanwhile another MSDF Aegis destroyer “Kirishima” left its base in Yokosuka Kanagawa Prefecture for the Pacific cean to track the rocket’s trajectory. The deployments came after the Japanese government made an unprecedented decision Friday to order the SDF units to prepare for an event in which a DPRK’s projectile might fall onto Japan’s territory.

Japan opposition defeated
Straits Times
– PHT: AFP TKY - THE candidate for Japan’s opposition party on Sunday appeared headed for defeat in a key local poll dealing a fresh blow to the party’s scandal-hit leader ahead of general elections local media said. Independent Kensaku Morita won the governor’s race in eastern Chiba over four others including Taira Yoshida backed by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) according to exit polls conducted by public broadcaster NHK. The 59-year-old Morita an actor and former lawmaker in Prime Minister Taro Aso’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will replace retiring governor Akiko Domoto NHK and other outlets reported. fficial results of the election in Chiba southeast of the capital Tokyo will be announced early Monday. It was the first major election since a chief aide to DPJ president Ichiro zawa long seen as Japan’s likely next premier was indicted on Tuesday over a political donations scandal.

Esquire Japan to end publication amid recession
AFP
Esquire Japan was first published in 1987 but according to an announcement on its website has decided to suspend publication due to “circumstances beyond our control. “The magazine which once enjoyed a monthly circulation of 60000 has suffered a sharp decline in advertising revenue amid the global financial crisis Kyodo News reported. In Japan the economic slump has forced a number of long-established magazines to suspend publication after advertising income plunged 11. 1 percent over a 12-month period according to a survey conducted by ad agency Dentsu Inc.

Japan Mega-Lenders Try Changing Culture Again
Forbes
09 10:05 AM EDTBut the tradition of cross-shareholdings is hard to get rid of. Japanese mega-lenders are re-examining the corporate tradition of cross-shareholdings. Mizuho Financial Group will slash its shareholdings by one-fifth in a bid to stem losses from the depressed Tokyo stock market. But corporate Japan made a similar effort after the East Asian financial crisis to cut down on the practice of companies buying shares in their affiliates clients and suppliers. Nonetheless old habits die hard and eventually came back to bite lenders in the course of today’s global financial crisis.

Japan Great Lakes Bay Region intertwine as Asian dignitaries …
MLive.com
open(urlwinnameoptions) newwin. “There are more than 400 Japanese companies established in Michigan and 10000 Japanese nationals living in the state” said Consul General Tamotsu Shinotsuka.
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Japan Deploys Ships Ahead of North Korean Rocket Launch
Voice of America
Meanwhile the United States Japan and SouthKorea have agreed that any launch would be immediately brought up inthe United Nations Security Council. The three countries haveall said North Korea is using the planned launch to test its ballisticmissile capability in violation of U.

Japanese enka star to perform at DC festival
The Associated Press
often spent weekends at his grandparents house where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background. White’s Japanese grandmother Takiko had met his grandfather an African-American serviceman at a dance during World War II. And it was in their Pittsburgh living room that the 6-year-old and his grandma sang the postwar songs of love loss and hardship. Even though he didn’t understand the enka lyrics at the time his Japanese singing pleased his grandmother who died in 2005.
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Rice Farmers in Japan Fear a Shrinking Future
New York Times
But there is an unmistakable malaise here. Skip to next paragraph.

Japan Mega-Lenders Try Changing Culture Again
Forbes
09 10:05 AM EDTBut the tradition of cross-shareholdings is hard to get rid of. Japanese mega-lenders are re-examining the corporate tradition of cross-shareholdings. Mizuho Financial Group will slash its shareholdings by one-fifth in a bid to stem losses from the depressed Tokyo stock market. But corporate Japan made a similar effort after the East Asian financial crisis to cut down on the practice of companies buying shares in their affiliates clients and suppliers. Nonetheless old habits die hard and eventually came back to bite lenders in the course of today’s global financial crisis.

Japan Enacts Record Y88.55 Tln Budget For FY2009
Wall Street Journal
–>2nd UPDATE: Japan Enacts Record Y88. 55 Tln Budget For FY2009 ArticleCommentsmore in. 55 trillion budget for the next fiscal year paving the way for the government to carry out its third stimulus package and accelerate work on its next steps to revive growth. The approval capped months of efforts by Prime Minister Taro Aso’s Cabinet to put into action three stimulus plans crafted since last summer to fight the nation’s recession. The national budget for the fiscal year starting April was needed to fund much of the last package valued at Y37 trillion. Introduced in December this package includes steps to spur job growth.

Panasonic Discloses DMC-GH1 Pricing Launch in Japan
PC World
launch two weeks ago: the price and release date. The camera is a follow-on to.

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WRLD FREX:Dlr Down Vs Yen As Japan Players Sell For FY-End
Wall Street Journal
–>WRLD FREX:Dlr Down Vs Yen As Japan Players Sell For FY-End ArticleCommentsmore in. But the dollar is unlikely to continue falling dealers said because many short-term-focused investors are refraining from dealing actively ahead of an event-rich next week. “Short-term players wouldn’t be able to trade actively today because we have a plenty of events that could set a long-term trend for the currency.

Japan Mega-Lenders Try Changing Culture Again
Forbes
09 10:05 AM EDTBut the tradition of cross-shareholdings is hard to get rid of. Japanese mega-lenders are re-examining the corporate tradition of cross-shareholdings. Mizuho Financial Group will slash its shareholdings by one-fifth in a bid to stem losses from the depressed Tokyo stock market. But corporate Japan made a similar effort after the East Asian financial crisis to cut down on the practice of companies buying shares in their affiliates clients and suppliers. Nonetheless old habits die hard and eventually came back to bite lenders in the course of today’s global financial crisis.

Panasonic Discloses DMC-GH1 Pricing Launch in Japan
PC World
launch two weeks ago: the price and release date. The camera is a follow-on to the company’s DMC-G1 which was launched last September and was the first camera based on the new Micro Four Thirds System lens mount and adds the ability to record video at high-definition resolution. It was previewed first at the PMA show in Las Vegas in early March.
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Japan Enacts Record Y88.55 Tln Budget For FY2009
Wall Street Journal
–>2nd UPDATE: Japan Enacts Record Y88. 55 Tln Budget For FY2009 ArticleCommentsmore in. 55 trillion budget for the next fiscal year paving the way for the government to carry out its third stimulus package and accelerate work on its next steps to revive growth. The approval capped months of efforts by Prime Minister Taro Aso’s Cabinet to put into action three stimulus plans crafted since last summer to fight the nation’s recession. The national budget for the fiscal year starting April was needed to fund much of the last package valued at Y37 trillion. Introduced in December this package includes steps to spur job growth.

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MUFG Morgan Stanley to Merge Japanese Securities Units
Wall Street Journal
The joint venture is expected to form the cornerstone of their planned global alliance. The joint venture comes after Japan’s largest bank known as MUFG invested $9 billion into Morgan Stanley last ctober.
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REFILE-UPDATE 1-Japan voters want opposition chief to go -poll
Reuters
The survey the first since Ichiro zawa said on Tuesday heplanned to stay in his post also showed support for unpopularPrime Minister Taro Aso had risen almost eight points to 23. 7percent but almost two-thirds of voters were stilldissatisfied with him. In another troubling sign for zawa the Kyodo news agencypoll showed he had lost an earlier lead over Aso among votersasked who they would prefer to see as premier. A teary-eyed zawa told a news conference on Tuesday aftera close aide was charged with accepting illegal corporatedonations that he would stay in his post.

Leading ff Japan Shows the Way in Baseball
New York Times
worldbaseballclassic. Major League Baseball intruded on Japan’s day only slightly when pitcher.

No funk in the trunks: Japanese astronaut tests extended-wear …
Los Angeles Times
According to recently published. An official with the.

Toyota says US sales still weak Honda delays plant
Reuters
T) said as rival Honda Motor Co (. T) announced further delays to the start of a new factory in Japan. car sales slumped by more than a third in January and February taking them to 27-year lows. That has hammered profits across the industry and driven Detroit stalwarts General Motors Corp (.

Japan man proves he survived both atomic bombs
AFP
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima when an American plane dropped an atomic bomb on August 6 1945. He survived with serious burns and returned to his hometown of Nagasaki where the second bomb was dropped three days later. Yamaguchi had already been certified a “hibakusha” or radiation survivor of the Nagasaki bombing but was officially confirmed this week as having lived through Hiroshima too. “I just wanted to clarify the horror only a double atomic bomb survivor could understand” Yamaguchi told reporters.

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Leading ff Japan Shows the Way in Baseball
New York Times
worldbaseballclassic. Major League Baseball intruded on Japan’s day only slightly when pitcher.

Japan Posts Trade Surplus But Exports Plunge Further
Wall Street Journal
–>UPDATE:Japan Posts Trade Surplus But Exports Plunge Further ArticleCommentsmore in. ) TKY (Dow Jones)–Japanese exports plummeted a record 49% in February as shrinking global trade squeezes profits and prompts more cuts to production personnel and investment in Japan’s key export sector. A 58% on-year drop in the value of exports to the U. and a 55% fall to the E.
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Japan readies N.Korean rocket launch response
AFP
Korean rocket launch response4 hours agoTKY (AFP) — The Japanese government’s powerful security council will meet this week to prepare for the shooting down of a North Korean rocket if it threatens to hit the country the premier said on Wednesday. The isolated Pyongyang regime has said it will launch a communications satellite over Japanese territory in early April but the United States and its Asian allies suspect the launch is a ballistic missile test. Tokyo which has developed a missile defence system with the United States in recent years has warned it will attempt to shoot down any missile or debris that threatens to hit its territory. North Korea which has announced a launch window of April 4 to 8 says it would regard a rocket intercept as an act of war. To prepare for the launch “the government will summon the security council this week” said Prime Minister Taro Aso.

WRLD FREX:Euro Recovers Tad Vs YenDlr But Upside Limited
Wall Street Journal
–>WRLD FREX:Euro Recovers Tad Vs YenDlr But Upside Limited ArticleCommentsmore in. Some players were also buying the euro which tends to trade up on higher stocks as Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average retraced earlier losses and briefly crossed into positive territory in the afternoon dealers said.

A little deaf in one ear - meet the Japanese man who survived …
guardian.co.uk
In a barely conceivable course of events he had twice been perilously close to nuclear ground zero; and both times he had lived. More than 70000 other residents of Nagasaki were not so lucky. More than 60 years later the 93-year-old became the first and only known survivor of both attacks yesterday to win official recognition from Japanese authorities. While other survivors died prematurely from cancer and liver disease caused by their exposure to radiation Yamaguchi remains in relatively good health apart from near-deafness in one ear and complaints that his legs are “growing weak”. Japanese records show dozens of people experienced the blast in Hiroshima only to be exposed to “residual radiation” in Nagasaki three days later. But Yamaguchi is the first to have been at ground zero when both explosions occurred. According to a newspaper interview Yamaguchi gave on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Pacific war he had spent the conflict designing oil tankers for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries a wartime zaibatsu or conglomerate whose shipyards dominated the Nagasaki skyline.

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Japan automakers’ sales tumble in February
MarketWatch
Saefong MarketWatch Last update: 3:18 a. EDT March 24 2009 TKY (MarketWatch) — Japanese automakers reported on Tuesday sharp declines in domestic sales and exports for the month of February along with similar drops in global production.

Japan TV: Muscle behind the movies
Hollywood Reporter
Everything from big anime projects to TV drama adaptations to theAcademy Award-winning “Departures” has been benefiting from thecoin. With almost every production of any size now being funded byconsortium the role of TV stations has been growing inimportance. As recently as 2000 Japanese films were being outgrossed 2-to-1 byoverseas productions in the domestic market. By last yearhome-grown films had almost reversed that position more thandoubling their total boxoffice take.

Japanese man certified as double A-bomb victim
The Associated Press
atomic bombings at the end of World War II officials said Tuesday. Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified “hibakusha” or radiation survivor of the Aug. 9 1945 atomic bombing in Nagasaki but has now been confirmed as surviving the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier as well city officials said.

Sports of The Times United States’ Loss Runs Deeper Than ne Game
New York Times
Japan did the little things they said and the United States did not. Japan played with basics and fundamentals; the United States did not. “They play with passion” shortstop Jimmy Rollins said. “We play with passion but they just wear theirs on their sleeves.

Japan Hot Stocks-Exporters Japan Tobacco Yamada Denki
Forbes
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Japanese ‘female’ robot walks shows emotions
USA Today
The "cybernetic human" named HRP-4C was shown to reporters in Tsukuba City northeast of Tokyo. The robot which will sell for $200000 also will make a special appearance in a Tokyo fashion show. Developers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology say the robot may be used.

Japan PM launches economic crisis talks
AFP
“Prime Minister Taro Aso convened a panel of experts to gather ideas for a new stimulus package that according to media reports may total about 20 trillion yen (200 billion dollars). Aso struggling to reverse a slump in his popularity ahead of elections later this year last week announced plans to put together a third stimulus package to revive the economy which is now headed into its worst post-war recession. Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and 83 experts were set to take part in the talks which will run until Saturday on themes such as the environment social security and employment. “We have to take unusual action to cope with abnormal situations” Aso told the opening of the meeting according to Jiji Press.

Japan to meet Korea for Classic semi-final berth
AFP
The arch-foes are set to write a new chapter in one of the greatest rivalries in Asian sport after splitting two first-round games at Tokyo the Japanese rolling 14-2 in the first meeting but dropping a rematch 1-0. “The experience of losing in Tokyo I think actually that works to our advantage and to our best interest” Japan third baseman Shuichi Marata said. “ur condition is very good and I’m satisfied with how we are playing. “Boston Red Sox star pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka baffled the Koreans in Japan’s blowout victory but “Dice-K” was used in Sunday’s 6-0 blanking of Cuba here to open the double-elimination second round.

There’s No Time to Rest Until the Last Zombie in Africa Is Toast
New York Times
All that said Resident Evil 5 could not possibly have been made in the United States. Racial sensitivities and prevailing political correctness would have had American game executives squirming in their Aeron chairs the minute they read a budget proposal for a game featuring African zombies. Not so in Japan apparently. The Japanese development team at Capcom which developed Resident Evil professed surprise at the racism concerns when black game writers in the United States started criticizing the game based on preview videos more than a year ago. To help the Japanese team understand perhaps they should consider what the response in Asia would be to a Japanese game in which the player slaughters zombified Chinese villagers. So we all have our cultural blind spots and predilections about whom it is acceptable to kill even when they are fictional digital zombies. Perhaps the more interesting and broader point is that Resident Evil 5 helps demonstrate yet again how video games are Japan’s most successful and important cultural export.

Japanese South Korean Envoys Meet Ahead of Anticipated N. Korea …
Voice of America
Korea Rocket TestBy Jason Strother Tokyo16 March 2009 South Koreans and Japanese envoys to the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program have met in Tokyo. The negotiations remain deadlocked and North Korea is expected to test-fire a long-range missile in the coming weeks. However both Seoul and Tokyo suspect the launch is actually to test-fire a long-range missile.
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Ticket Sales Show Where Rooting Interests Lie
New York Times
And in San Diego games on Sunday between Japan and Cuba and then Korea and Mexico drew at least 20000 apiece. Korea’s 8-2 drubbing of Mexico late Sunday night attracted a particularly vocal crowd to Petco Park. With Tijuana just 15 miles down Interstate 5 and a large Korean community throughout Southern California the game almost resembled a home affair for both teams. It also evidenced how expatriate fans delight in using the word root as both a verb and a noun. Antonio Lopez an associate in a medical and legal consulting company in San Diego was born in Mexico before moving to the United States at age 9.

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Video Game Review | Resident Evil 5
New York Times
All that said Resident Evil 5 could not possibly have been made in the United States. Racial sensitivities and prevailing political correctness would have had American game executives squirming in their Aeron chairs the minute they read a budget proposal for a game featuring African zombies. Not so in Japan apparently. The Japanese development team at Capcom which developed Resident Evil professed surprise at the racism concerns when black game writers in the United States started criticizing the game based on preview videos more than a year ago. To help the Japanese team understand perhaps they should consider what the response in Asia would be to a Japanese game in which the player slaughters zombified Chinese villagers. So we all have our cultural blind spots and predilections about whom it is acceptable to kill even when they are fictional digital zombies. Perhaps the more interesting and broader point is that Resident Evil 5 helps demonstrate yet again how video games are Japan’s most successful and important cultural export.
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US Women’s soccer team to face Japan at Rio Tinto
Salt Lake Tribune
Women’s National Soccer Team will make its first visit to Utah in six years on May 23 when the defending lympic champions will face Japan — their 2008 lympic semifinal counterpart — at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy. The international friendly is set for a 4 p. kickoff and will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel.

Dollar up vs. yen as trade deficit narrows
MarketWatch
Weak yen Some strategists question whether the Japanese yen has fully lost its luster as a popular safe-haven currency. Last fall the yen was the ultimate beneficiary of plunging global equities and rising financial turmoil as traders unwound once-popular carry trades or sought refuge in the Japanese currency. That relationship appeared to weaken this year amid a rising focus on Japan’s own deep economic woes and ideas that deleveraging in favor of the yen had largely run its course.

Cubans to face Japan in Classic baseball rematch
AFP
Now defending World Baseball Classic champion Japan will have a chance to make the 82-year-old former Cuban president regret it. Cuba routed host Mexico 16-4 in a Thursday game halted after seven innings by the mercy rule to book a second-round date with Japan here on Sunday the same day Mexico will open against reigning lympic champion South Korea. The Japanese “Samurai” will face unbeaten Cuba seeking a 39th consecutive trip to a global tournament final in the same stadium where they defeated the Communist island’s squad 10-6 in the final of the inaugural 2006 Classic. Castro had said that he hoped Cuba would have the chance for revenge against Japan for the 2006 loss and that the teams might meet again for this year’s title sentiments echoed by Cuban manager Higinio Velez after the triumph. “We’re actually fulfilling both things” Velez said.

Can Japanese baseball end the ‘Curse of Col. Sanders’?
USA Today
Excited fans tossed a plastic statue of the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken into saka’s Dotonbori River 24 years ago after the Tigers won their first Central League championship in two decades. But when the Tigers fell back to their losing ways fans blamed the bad luck on.

Illegal immigrants leave daughter in Japan
ABC nline
Noriko Calderon was born in Japan and speaks only Japanese and is in her second year of high school. The Japanese Immigration Bureau had given the teenager a harrowing choice - go with her parents back to their native Philippines where she’s never lived or stay on in Japan without them. Correspondent Mark Willacy reports from Tokyo. MARK WILLACY: It was a last-ditch effort to keep her family together in Japan.

Dell Studio ne 19: All-in-ne Stunner Takes Japan
PC World
This new machine — starting at $699 — melds together a wish-list of what I’d hoped I’d see in my Kitchen of TomorrowTM. It’s just a shame that Japan retailers get to play with the Studio ne 19 this week while it isn’t slated to appear stateside until “sometime this spring. ” That’s not stopping me from sharing my two cents on this computing conversation piece right now since I just came out of a product demo:.

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Dollar up vs. yen as trade deficit narrows
MarketWatch
Weak yen Some strategists question whether the Japanese yen has fully lost its luster as a popular safe-haven currency. Last fall the yen was the ultimate beneficiary of plunging global equities and rising financial turmoil as traders unwound once-popular carry trades or sought refuge in the Japanese currency. That relationship appeared to weaken this year amid a rising focus on Japan’s own deep economic woes and ideas that deleveraging in favor of the yen had largely run its course.

Cubans to face Japan in Classic baseball rematch
AFP
Now defending World Baseball Classic champion Japan will have a chance to make the 82-year-old former Cuban president regret it. Cuba routed host Mexico 16-4 in a Thursday game halted after seven innings by the mercy rule to book a second-round date with Japan here on Sunday the same day Mexico will open against reigning lympic champion South Korea. The Japanese “Samurai” will face unbeaten Cuba seeking a 39th consecutive trip to a global tournament final in the same stadium where they defeated the Communist island’s squad 10-6 in the final of the inaugural 2006 Classic. Castro had said that he hoped Cuba would have the chance for revenge against Japan for the 2006 loss and that the teams might meet again for this year’s title sentiments echoed by Cuban manager Higinio Velez after the triumph. “We’re actually fulfilling both things” Velez said.

Can Japanese baseball end the ‘Curse of Col. Sanders’?
USA Today
Excited fans tossed a plastic statue of the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken into saka’s Dotonbori River 24 years ago after the Tigers won their first Central League championship in two decades. But when the Tigers fell back to their losing ways fans blamed the bad luck on.
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Dell Studio ne 19: All-in-ne Stunner Takes Japan
PC World
This new machine — starting at $699 — melds together a wish-list of what I’d hoped I’d see in my Kitchen of TomorrowTM. It’s just a shame that Japan retailers get to play with the Studio ne 19 this week while it isn’t slated to appear stateside until “sometime this spring. ” That’s not stopping me from sharing my two cents on this computing conversation piece right now since I just came out of a product demo:.