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/ 29 December 2003
A Japanese demolition firm has found a smashing way of making a name for itself — through its company song, with lyrics like ”We will destroy houses! We will destroy bridges! We will destroy buildings!”. It is the first time that a ”shaka”, or corporate anthem, has made the charts.
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/ 24 December 2003
Countries across Asia banned the import of United States beef products on Wednesday after a cow on a Washington state farm tested positive for mad cow disease. Japan, the number-one importer of US beef, imposed an indefinite ban and planned to recall certain meat products already on the market.
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/ 30 October 2003
Two Japanese satellites have been in trouble following geomagnetic storms triggered by recent solar flares, one of them the largest in three decades, the Japanese space agency said on Thursday. Adeos-2, one of the world’s biggest earth observation satellites, has lost contact with the Earth.
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/ 15 October 2003
A strong earthquake measuring 5,0 on the Richter scale struck Tokyo and other eastern Japanese areas on Wednesday, leaving at least five people injured. The tremors were powerful enough to make tall buildings in central Tokyo shake noticeably for several seconds.
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/ 26 September 2003
Two powerful earthquakes, one of them measuring 8,0 on the Richter scale, rocked northern Japan on Friday, injuring about 480 people and forcing thousands more to evacuate their homes. The bigger quake was the strongest to hit Japan in almost nine years.
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/ 5 February 2003
As the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula escalates, ethnic Koreans in Japan are increasingly rallying behind Kim Jong-Il — not Pyongyang’s enigmatic supreme leader, but his Japan-based namesake, a one-time supporter turned vocal critic.
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/ 23 September 2002
It will rank as a stunning confession to one of the most bizarre crimes ever committed by a state. This week North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il said his country’s special forces abducted at least a dozen Japanese nationals during the 1970s and 1980s in a fit of patriotic overzealousness.
The International Whaling Commission’s week-long annual plenary ended with a ban on commercial hunting in place for another year.
Conservationists have suffered a setback when two proposals for whale sanctuaries sank at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting in Japan.