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Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Democratic Party (DPJ) leader Naoto Kan speaks before his supporters during a joint election campaign for the DPJ presidency in Tokyo. More than six in ten Japanese want Kan to win his party leadership battle with powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, polls showed Monday.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - More than six in ten Japanese want Prime Minister Naoto Kan to win his party leadership battle with powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, polls showed Monday.


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In this photo taken on May 11, 2010, teacher Kazuyo Arai, background standing, and her class listen to a student speaking at Honmoku Elementary School in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is adding about 1,200 pages to elementary school textbooks, bringing the total to nearly 6,100. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - When Mio Honzawa starts fifth grade next April, her textbooks will be thicker.


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Reuters - A Japanese journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan in April has been freed, according to an Afghan provincial official who said on Sunday the journalist had been abducted by the Taliban.
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Reuters - Japan needs fiscal reform targets to tackle its massive debt but existing goals heavily influenced by bureaucrats should be reviewed, said an aide to the ruling party powerbroker challenging Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
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AP - A Japanese court on Monday convicted two members of the environmental group Greenpeace of stealing whale meat they claim was intended for illegal consumption, giving each suspended jail terms.
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AP - The star of an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese village's infamous dolphin hunt said Monday that activists trying to stop the killing might need to back off and allow the Japanese people to tackle the issue themselves.
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A researcher holding a petri dish with a culture at a microbiology lab in Belgium in August 2010. Japan on Monday said it has detected its first case of an antibiotic-resistant AFP - Japan on Monday said it has detected its first case of an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" that surfaced in South Asia and has triggered a global health alert.


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Two Greenpeace activists, aboard an inflatable boat, attach themselves to an illegally killed Minke whale, whilst it is winched aboard the Japanese ship, the AFP - Greenpeace urged Japan on Tuesday to probe graft claims in its state-funded whaling programme, a day after two of its activists received suspended jail terms for committing theft during an investigation.


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Freed Japanese freelance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka ponders on reporters' questions during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Tsuneoka was kidnapped in April, when he traveled to a Taliban-controlled area in northern Afghanistan, and was released Saturday night to a Japanese Embassy. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a cell phone.


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Ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (C), seeking to become Japan's new prime minister, pictured here in August 2010, said Tuesday he would not step down even if a judicial review panel orders his indictment in a political funds scandal.(AFP/Jiji Press/File)AFP - Ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa, seeking to become Japan's new prime minister, said Tuesday he would not step down even if a judicial review panel orders his indictment in a political funds scandal.


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EDTORS: THIS IS RETRANSMISSION TO EXCLUDE A WHITE BORDER AT RIGHT**The main gallows of the Tokyo Detention Center is shown during a tour Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Japan has allowed local media a rare tour of Tokyo's main gallows in a bid to create more public awareness about capital punishment, which is carried out extremely secretly in this country. The room behind the glass window is for witnesses. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA, EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Japan opened up the secretive world of its capital punishment system to the public Friday, offering journalists a rare tour of Tokyo's main gallows in an effort to stoke debate about a practice widely supported here.


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Reuters - Nearly 70 percent of Japanese voters want Prime Minister Naoto Kan to win the party leadership against powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, a survey showed on Saturday, a race that could create a policy vacuum and push the yen higher.
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, pictured here at his official residence in Tokyo on August 10. A majority of Japanese want Kan to stay on despite a challenge posed by powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa ahead of a party presidential race next month, Kyodo News reported.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - A majority of Japanese want Prime Minister Naoto Kan to stay on despite a challenge posed by powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa ahead of a party presidential race next month, Kyodo News reported Saturday.


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File photo of Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku. The Asahi Shimbun reported that political groups supporting Sengoku, had paid 3.2 million yen (38,000 dollars) to his eldest son's legal firm even though the son has little to do with his father's political activities.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's right-hand man is suspected of misappropriation of political funds, a news report said Sunday, in a possible blow to Kan ahead of a party leadership race next month.


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AP - Residents of neighboring resort towns in central Japan are waging a battle against a marauding monkey that has bitten dozens of people in the past few weeks — and the monkey is winning.
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Japanese 10,000 yen banknotes are counted by an electronic counter at an office of the World Currency Shop in Tokyo in this August 9, 2010 illustration picture. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonReuters - The Bank of Japan buckled under government pressure and eased monetary policy at an emergency meeting on Monday in an effort to curb a rise in the yen that is threatening a fragile economic recovery.


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Reuters - The Bank of Japan expanded its fund supply tool at an emergency meeting, saving more aggressive steps for when there is clearer evidence of a slowdown in a fragile economy hit by a strong yen.
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Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Masaaki Shirakawa answers a question during a press conference at the BoJ headquarters in Tokyo on August 10. BoJ have decided at an emergency policy meeting Monday to expand its funding programme introduced in December in an effort to safeguard a fragile recovery threatened by a strong yen.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - The Bank of Japan decided at an emergency policy meeting Monday to expand its funding programme introduced in December in an effort to safeguard a fragile recovery threatened by a strong yen.


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Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Masaaki Shirakawa answers questions during a press conference at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo. Japan unveiled an 11 billion dollar stimulus and announced monetary steps to safeguard a fragile economy and curb the impact of a strong yen, but markets were left unimpressed.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Japan on Monday announced plans for a "swift" stimulus package worth around 920 billion yen (11 billion dollars) as it looks to safeguard a fragile recovery and curb the impact of a strong yen.


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Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Masaaki Shirakawa answers questions during a press conference at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo. Japan unveiled an 11 billion dollar stimulus and announced monetary steps to safeguard a fragile economy and curb the impact of a strong yen, but markets were left unimpressed.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Japan on Monday unveiled an 11 billion dollar stimulus and announced monetary steps to safeguard a fragile economy and curb the impact of a strong yen, but markets were left unimpressed.


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