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China’s top legislature takes a positive stance on resuming exchanges with the Diet, despite the prolonged chill in bilateral ties with Japan.
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Mazda Motor Corp.’s Demio compact car has won the car of the year Japan award for 2014 to 2015, the CTYJ executive committee, comprising representatives from automotive and other magazines, announced Monday. The latest ...
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Typhoon exits Honshu for Pacific; one dead, one missing, 82 hurt

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Gay rights groups hailed a “seismic shift” by the Catholic Church toward gays on Monday after bishops said homosexuals had gifts to offer the church and that their partnerships, while morally problematic, provided homosexuals ...
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WHO chief tells East Asia to get ball rolling on Ebola defenses

World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan on Monday urged East Asian and Pacific countries to strengthen defenses against the Ebola outbreak, warning that the whole world may be at risk. The region of 1.8 ...
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Mobs assault Hong Kong protesters' barricades

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A mob of masked men opposed to Hong Kong’s prodemocracy demonstrators led an apparently coordinated assault on the protest zone in the heart of the city’s financial district Monday, tearing down barricades and clashing ...
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Mazda Demio wins Japan car of the year award

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Typhoon exits Honshu for Pacific; one dead, one missing, 82 hurt

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Soga skeptical of plan to send abduction delegation to Pyongyang

Hitomi Soga, one of the repatriated Japanese abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, took a dim view Sunday of the government’s plan to send officials to Pyongyang to get an update on its new probe into the other missing Japanese. “I don’t want ...

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Thousands of Liberian health care workers are set to begin an indefinite strike at midnight on Monday that could undermine the country’s effort to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus and leave several hundred patients without care. Health workers in the West ...

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Global finance leaders pledge bold efforts for growth

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Soaking weary bones and saving a sole on Kyushu's Mount Yufu

by Mandy Bartok

It’s a rare day that the top of Oita Prefecture’s Mount Yufu (or Yufudake) isn’t obscured by clouds, claims Lonely Planet’s “Hiking in Japan” guidebook. Luckily, our visit happens to coincide with one of those rare days — there is nothing but an unbroken ...

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Before wrapping up my interview with Marie Kondo, who might well be world’s foremost cleaning consultant, I promised I would put one of her de-cluttering lessons to the test prior to reviewing her book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” And so here I ...

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Freedom of the press in South Korea

Criminal action taken by Seoul prosecutors against a Japanese journalist for questioning the whereabouts of President Park Geun-hye on the day in August when a South Korean passenger ferry sank raises serious questions about South Korea's commitment to freedom of the press.

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Accounting for political allowance

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Let the neighbors take care of Islamic State's ambitions

President Barack Obama is channeling George W. Bush in launching a new war in the Middle East. Why is Washington involved? Let Iraq's and Syria's neighbors take care of Islamic State's ambitions.

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Modi's outreach to U.S. more than pageantry

Though some critics view the Indian prime minister's recent visit to the U.S. as puff and pageantry with no concrete results, Narendra Modi laid the foundation for long-term changes in the way India conducts its international affairs.

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Monday, October 13, 2014

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