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The Doctor Stole our Son In a bedroom in the Japanese town of Nagoya lies the 41-year old Katsuhiko Inagaki. His eyes stare into space without reflecting his soul. He is paralyzed up to his neck. The words that are directed to him fall into emptiness. The former top economics student has lived the past 20 years without being aware of it.
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Water or War Kyoto hosts the third World Water Forum, the largest one yet. More than 8,000 participants from all over the world congregate in Japan's historical capital to solve the world's water problems. At the opening French President Chirac asks participants: "Will the twenty-first century be a time of tension and water wars? Or will it be a time of international solidarity and greater justice? The answer depends on our wisdom and our commitment."
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Tragic End for Japanese Abducted
by North Korea The historical summit between Japan and North Korea on September 17 (2002) ended on both a sad and hopeful note. The two countries decided to resume normalization talks in October, but North Korea confirmed that many of the Japanese abducted by its security forces in the 1970s and 1980s were dead...
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First Mahjong World Championships
to Japan? Later this year the very first Mahjong World Championships were scheduled to take place in Ningbo in rural China. Apparently Beijing was unhappy with the image of China this rural setting would give to the outside world and called the competition off. A well-informed source tells iKjeld.com that it is "90 percent certain" that the world championships will now take place in Japan.
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Transplanted culture celebrates
10th anniversary In 1992, Nagasaki opened Huis ten Bosch, a spectacular resort based on a typical town in the Netherlands. Together with Tokyo Disneyland and Universal Studios Japan (2001) Huis ten Bosch has become one of the largest theme parks in Japan, attracting about 4 million visitors annually.
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Meet the Wonderful Fans of World
Cup 2002 Japan expected an onslaught of foreign hooligans smashing up its stores and raping its daughters. Surprise! Both foreign and Japanese supporters turn out to be wonderful people.
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Japanese Team Advances to Best
16 June 14 2002 Japan made soccer history when its national team beat Tunisia 2-0. Suddenly Japan was among the best 16 countries of the world. For a short glorious period life seemed fabulous to Japan's electrified soccer fans.
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Soccer Fans Confuse Japanese
Police As the Japanese soccer team plays Tunisia on June 14 in Osaka's Nagai Stadium, tens of thousands of excited Japanese fans congregate in the nearby park. Even though completely peaceful, police order them to move.
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Japanese Celebrate First World
Cup Win Sunday June 9 2002 Japan played Russia and won 1-0. While people in Moscow started riots which left at least one person dead, the Japanese literally danced on the streets.
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Japanese at Full Alert During
World Cup Japan takes no chances with hooligans during the 2002 World Cup Soccer. A true army of police officers patrol the streets and waterways of cities hosting games, herding supporters onto predetermined routes.
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The Japanese Thumb Generation According to Sadie Plant who examined the mobile phone habits of people in eight world cities, the thumbs of kids all over the world have become bigger and more muscular. But the Japanese kids are undoubtedly the meanest thumbers. Plant calls Japan's new Thumb Generation "the most advanced in the world."
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Cherry Blossoms Early Few Japanese people can remember the last time the cherry blossomed as early as this year. In many places the delicate flowers bloom at least two weeks early. Tokyo already had a sea of pink in March, Kobe and Osaka are filled with beauty at the start of April.
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Osaka Celebrates On September 26 2001 Osaka-based baseball team the Kintetsu Buffaloes won the pennant in one of Japan's two baseball leagues. In the center of Osaka city more than 50 young men jumped into a reeking canal to celebrate.
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9/11 Attacks Shock Japan In the Japanese city of Osaka security was tightened around the US consulate as the flag was in mourning and flowers lay in front of the entrance to the building. Worried Japanese watched results for the Japanese stock markets.
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Hot, Hot, Hot!!! A heat wave continues its grip on Japan, pushing temperatures up to nearly 40 C in eastern and western Japan, with Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture in central Japan, observing a record regional high of 39.9 C.
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No Olympics! Until the very last minute Osaka thought it had a fighting chance to host the Olympic Games of 2008. The end to that innocent dream came as the IOC choose front-runner Beijing during an IOC meeting in Moscow on July 13 2001.
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Vicious School Killings On June 8 2001 37-year old Mamoru Takamu entered a primary school in the Japanese city of Ikeda in Osaka prefecture. Wielding a knife he stabbed and slashed 23 people, 8 of whom died of their wounds. Almost all victims were 6 and 7-year olds.
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Japan's Most Popular and Most
Controversial Politician In April 2001 Makiko Tanaka became the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japan. These portraits were taken in Osaka on April 11, 2001. Mostly during a private session.
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Japan's New Leader At a political rally in Kobe on April 20 it already seemed clear who the next Prime Minister of Japan would be. Many thousands waited for hours to listen to Tanaka and Koizumi.
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'Japanese' Football American Football was born at Princeston University in the United States. On March 24, 2001, when the Princeston Tigers fought the Japanese team Kangaku Fighters, an observer would have beeen forgiven for thinking otherwise.
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Osaka Olympics? In the last week of February 2001 the evaluation commission of the International Olympic Committee visited the Japanese city of Osaka to check out its bid for the 2008 Olympics.
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USJ Risking the Plunge On March 31 2001 Universal Studios opened it very first Movie theme park outside the United States. Universal Studios choose the industrial city of Osaka for its 140 acre large park of dreams and glamour.
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Saving Lives in India On January 26 2001 a devastating earthquake flattened many large cities and close to 900 villages in the Indian state of Gujarat. Red Cross officials estimated the number of wounded at 40 to 60,000. One of the first medical teams on the scene was the Japanese Red Cross Emergency Response Unit.
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Homeless and Hopeless Japanese streets see more and more homeless. Day laborers have now been joined by small business owners and once proud sarariman (salaried office workers).
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Controversial Food An Australian magazine took on the Whaling issue in a very interesting and original way: by showing how whale is prepared and served in Japan.
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