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Soccerway: Miyama strikes for Japan, Mexico salvage point

Japan’s Aya Miyama struck a sublime free-kick to net her nation a 2-1 Group B win over New Zealand at the women’s FIFA World Cup on Monday.

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LA Times: Most Japanese oppose nuclear reactor restarts -poll

Nearly 70 percent of Japanese oppose the restart of [...]

Prime Minister Hatoyama has traveled half way around the world and back a couple of times already in his first 50 days as Prime Minister. He has spent a great deal of time talking about ‘yuai’ (loosely translated as ‘fraternity), and about his plans for East Asian cooperation, nuclear disarmament, and some of the world’s [...]

I’ve been meaning to do a post about Financial and Postal Affairs Minister Kamei Shizuka ever since the election, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it until now. Kamei, and the leader of the DPJ’s other coalition partner, Fukushima Mizuho, pose something of a problem for the Hatoyama administration. He needed to find [...]

If I had a dollar for every time an English student has misused the word ‘expect’… Just the other day I heard it again – ‘I expect the new government very much’. ‘Expect them to do what?’ was my inner gut reaction. But I knew what they meant, and corrected them. They expect a lot [...]