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JAPAN News, Nov 09, 2010


Olympus Urged to Extend Purge of Executives as Shares Slump on Hidden Loss
Bloomberg
By Mariko Yasu and Naoko Fujimura - Wed Nov 09 09:43:14 GMT 2011 Shuichi Takayama, president of Olympus Corp., leaves a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Shuichi Takayama, president of Olympus Corp., leaves a news conference in ...
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Bloomberg
Ripken gives Japanese youth a boost
The Daily Yomiuri
The group held a pair of clinics in Tokyo and will travel to Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, today before heading to Nishinomiya, Hyogo, on Saturday. Kinugasa will miss the event in Nishinomiya, but rejoins the group in Kyoto's Ukyo Ward on Sunday to help ...
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Tepco Ordered to Create Road Map to Decommission Reactors
BusinessWeek
9 (Bloomberg) -- The Japanese government ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to draw up a road map to decommission the damaged four reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in a process that could take 30 years. The utility known as Tepco should ...
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Q+A: The big issues at the Durban climate summit
Reuters
Poorer nations want the Kyoto Protocol to be extended, but many rich nations say a broader pact is needed to include all the big polluters. Russia, Japan and Canada have said they will not sign up for a second commitment period unless the biggest ...
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Scrub homes, denude trees to wash cesium fears away
The Japan Times
In Tokyo, only the Okutama forest area has had similar fallout. In many cases, significant decontamination can be achieved by a few simple procedures. Following are tips for do-it-yourself home decontamination: TheJapanese Society of Radiation Safety ...
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The Japan Times
Japan's Version of the Flatiron Building is Impossibly Skinny
Curbed National (blog)
Appropriately named On the Corner, this house, in Youkaichi, Japan, consists of seven two-bedroom rental apartments, each with a living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Design Milk explains that the awkwardly shaped lot sat empty until Kyoto-based firm ...
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Curbed National (blog)
Global pledge to reduce emissions pushed
Manila Standard Today
by John Concepcion A professor of international law in a university in Japan stressed the need for a global framework that would deal with climate change. Dr. Yukari Takamura, who teaches at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Nagoya ...
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Climate talks: China calls on developing countries to 'step up'
environmentalresearchweb
In the past, this approach has been seen by rich countries as simply continuing the stalemate that has afflicted the long-running talks, and several nations – including the US and Japan – have rejected a "Kyoto 2" because it would not require binding ...
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Feds expect 'turbulence' at climate talks
CANOE
The first round of the current climate agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, expires in 2012. But Canada, along with Russia and Japan, is crying foul over Kyoto because developing countries - even top polluters like China - aren't bound by its greenhouse gas ...
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World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
The Guardian
Originally, the aim was to agree a successor to the 1997 Kyoto protocol, the only binding international agreement on emissions, after its current provisions expire in 2012. But after years of setbacks, an increasing number of countries – including the ...
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NSF, JST Issue New Joint Awards To Reduce Pesticide Pollution And Promote Biofuel
RedOrbit
Research led by Georg Jander of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in New York and Yutaka Okumoto of Kyoto University. Up to 30 percent of agricultural productivity is lost to insects and disease. Moreover, production costs soar every time ...
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RedOrbit
Japan to build 16 new nuclear reactors
Deccan Herald
The regulatory agencies have to play an active role in disseminating information,” Hiroyuki Kameda, professor emeritus at Kyoto University told Deccan Herald on the side-lines of the conference. As many as 16 reactors are at various stages of planning ...
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Diversification of Moths with Teeth
Southern Fried Science
A recent paper on the Japanese species of Micropterigidae by Yume Imada and her colleagues at Kyoto University provides evidence to the contrary and applies molecular techniques to test the hypothesis of allopatric speciation without niche shift. ...
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Southern Fried Science
Business Innovation Key to Smart Grid Roll-Out
Bloomberg
The group also offers Insight Services for each of the major emerging carbon markets: European, Global Kyoto, Australia, and the US, where it covers the planned regional markets as well as potential federal initiatives and the voluntary carbon market. ...
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SGI Reports Financial Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
... Japan and America's Commercial. Further, we are reaffirming our fiscal 2012 guidance, based on current visibility," Barrenechea concluded. In Life Sciences, our customer successes include Bayer BioScience NV, BIOGEMMA, Kyoto University, ...
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The Mushroom Kingdom Goes 3D in Super Mario 3D Land for Nintendo 3DS
MarketWatch (press release)
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii(TM) home console, Nintendo 3DS(TM) and Nintendo DS(TM) family of ...
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With Help from Rats, NU Neuroscientist Closes In on Depression Treatment
Chicagomag.com
Today Redei works with descendants of a breed of albino rats first genetically engineered in Kyoto, Japan. They are smart mammals, though these particular rodents are depressed and huddle together in their plastic pen rather than exhibiting the ...
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Chicagomag.com
Now for the really hard climate talks
Climate Spectator
There is fury among many developing countries about the decision by Japan, Canada, and Russia, to abandon the Kyoto Protocol, and lingering resentment over the US decision not to ratify it. In the normal scheme of events, that should not have an impact...
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Dunlop hoping for better luck with Red Cadeaux in Hong Kong
Irish Times
Dunlop's worries about the bug bites Snow Fairy got while she was in quarantine eased after the filly exercised on Kyoto racecourse, Japan, ahead of her bid to land back-to-back victories in the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup there on Sunday. ...
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EWEA – wind could provide a third of Europe's CO2 cuts
Industrial Fuels and Power
... South Korea and Japan.” He added: “It is clear that by deploying wind energy and other renewables the EU can move to a 30% greenhouse gas reduction target with ease.” For comparison, in 2010, EU wind energy avoided around 28% of the EU's Kyoto...
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