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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: Rio wins bid for 2016 Olympics; Tokyo eliminated in 2nd round
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Saturday, October 03, 2009. Rio wins bid for 2016 Olympics; Tokyo eliminated in 2nd round. Tokyo’s hopes of hosting the 2016 Olympics were shattered Friday as the Japanese capital was eliminated in the second round of voting by the International Olympic Committee. 8216;‘I want to offer my heartfelt appreciation for the citizens of Tokyo and athletes,’’ said Tokyo Gov Shintaro Ishihara. R...It was Japan’...
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: June 2009
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Thursday, June 11, 2009. Nikkei flat after hitting 8-mth high, US rates weigh. Nikkei flat after hitting 8-mth high, US rates weigh. Japan's Nikkei average edged above 10,000 to an eight-month high on Thursday before paring gains, with worries about rising U.S. interest rates offsetting an increase in steel shares on a brokerage upgrade. Generally speaking, the upward trend in the stock market is continuing as e...
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: January 2009
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Sunday, January 18, 2009. Tokyo gets funding boost in 2016 Olympic bid. Tokyo’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics. Has received a boost, with the city government saying it will allocate an additional $1.1 billion for the Games in its 2009 budget. The fresh cash injection of $1.1 billion increases Tokyo’s contingency fund for the Games to $4.4 billion. 8220;The 2009 budget is further confirmation of our financial str...
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: February 2010
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Japan dealt severe blow in bid for last 4 in curling. Dropped a crucial game to Switzerland 10-4 in eight ends in the women’s curling tournament at the Vancouver Olympics. On Monday. Japan took its fourth loss in seven games and fell into a fifth-place tie with Germany in the 10-team round-robin standings. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Bad americans around the world.
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: Nikkei flat after hitting 8-mth high, US rates weigh
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Thursday, June 11, 2009. Nikkei flat after hitting 8-mth high, US rates weigh. Nikkei flat after hitting 8-mth high, US rates weigh. Japan's Nikkei average edged above 10,000 to an eight-month high on Thursday before paring gains, with worries about rising U.S. interest rates offsetting an increase in steel shares on a brokerage upgrade. Generally speaking, the upward trend in the stock market is continuing as e...
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: November 2008
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Thursday, November 27, 2008. Aso apologizes for remarks about people with illnesses. Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday apologized for remarks in which he appeared to be criticizing people suffering from illnesses and the use of taxpayers’ money to cover their medical costs. ‘‘I’m sorry if the remarks offended people who are suffering illnesses,’’ Aso told reporters. Links to this post. Links to this post.
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: April 2009
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Saturday, April 25, 2009. Links to this post. Thursday, April 23, 2009. 5,000 elementary students planted to welcome IOC evaluation team. More than 5,000 public elementary school students in Tokyo’s Koto Ward were assembled at a park when an evaluation team from the International Olympic Committee visited last week without being told that the team would go there, officials of the Koto Ward said Wednesday. On Fri...
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: Aso says having children an 'obligation,' but later retracts remark
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Friday, May 08, 2009. Aso says having children an 'obligation,' but later retracts remark. Gaffe-prone Prime Minister Taro Aso said Thursday that he has fulfilled an ‘‘obligation’’ because he has two children, but he later retracted the remark made during a parliamentary debate about Japan’s declining birthrate. But he later retracted the remark, saying there are various reasons for not having a child. Relatives...
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment: Relatives of Aso mine's British laborers demand apology and compensation
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Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Japanese selected news - feel free to comment. Thursday, May 21, 2009. Relatives of Aso mine's British laborers demand apology and compensation. James McAnulty, from Glasgow, Scotland, was shocked when he learned a few months ago that the mine in which his father toiled was owned by Aso Mining Co. McAnulty’s father, who passed away in 1971, spent long hours at the Fukuoka Prefecture mine shoveling up coal and pushing wagons. McAnulty, 62, told Kyodo News, &#...