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14 hrs ago | The Japan Times

ART Modern Kyoto

In 1895, Kyoto was badly in need of public relations. Kyoto's population was in decline, and traditional industries such as ceramics and textile manufacturing were in disarray.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

UC Davis students in Japan free after flu quarantine

A Japanese quarantine has been lifted for 20 California students taking a UC Davis class on daily life in Japan, a UC Davis spokeswoman said Thursday.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

SF Gate

Calif students quarantined for swine flu exposure

A group of 20 students studying in Japan through the University of California Davis have been quarantined after two of their Japanese tutors were diagnosed with swine flu.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, UC Davis, World News, Japan

Mon Jul 06, 2009

Japan Visitor Blog

Gion Festival Kyoto

Gion Matsuri began over a thousand years ago to placate Susano-o no Mikoto, the god of wind and water in an effort to halt a devasting plague that was sweeping the country.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Daily Yomiuri

2 more MSDF destroyers to leave for Somalia

Marine Self-Defense Force destroyers Harusame and Amagiri will depart for seas off Somalia on Monday in their capacity as the second unit of the MSDF's antipiracy mission.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

The Japan Times

A new way of experiencing Japan's old city

In a city that rightly boasts of its numerous monuments to its glorious and illustrious past, the Kaleidoscope Museum of Kyoto provides a counterpoint to the ancient capital's architectural and religious treasures.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Daily Yomiuri

KANSAI & WEST / Kyoto's maiko pin hopes on craftsman

A 53-year-old craftsman in Kyoto has been busy making floral hairpins to be worn by maiko during the Gion Festival this month, keeping alive techniques that date back to the late Edo period .

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Slate

What if Paul Krugman was a Japanese woman?

"Please do not believe all the talk about the green shoots of the Japanese economy, which I suspect you might have heard.

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Art Daily

Clif Olds "Retires" from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

A casual conversation with Clif might meander through Japanese gardens in Kyoto, a recent passion that led him to create a phenomenal website; briefly touch down on the Ars Moriendi, the topic of his 1966 doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania; descend into the jazz clubs of New York, where he played drums in the late 1950s; and ...

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

New York Post

Fans Steal Leonardo Dicaprio's Sneakers

A TRIP to a Japanese temple left Leonardo DiCaprio barefoot after ugly American tourists stole the star's sneakers.

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Kyodo News

Deputies had 'secret duty' to tell boss of covert Japan-U.S. nuke pact

It was a ''secret duty'' of vice ministers to inform foreign ministers of a secret accord between Japan and the United States that has outlined the handling of nuclear weapons since 1960, a former vice foreign minister said Monday.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Online Scene

Japan: Martial Art's Headquarters

On the last day of February members of The University of Southampton's Shorinji Kempo club flew half way around the world for what is becoming an annual trip to the world headquarters of our martial art, Japan.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Kyodo News

Tourism minister declares Japan safe from new-flu threat

Japan is now safe from the threat of the outbreak of the H1N1 influenza epidemic, tourism minister Kazuyoshi Kaneko said Friday.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

Hypebeast.com

Visvim Kyoto Exclusive Becher Weld Shirt

In association with the latest Visvim flagship store opening in the Japanese city of Kyoto, the heralded brand released a series of BECHER WELD shirts exclusive to the Kyoto F.I.L. location.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Times Online

Go sushi: 10 best bites from Japan

"What you know about Japan food, huh? You think you know anything about Japan food? Only in Japan! You can not taste it here in Europe." With these words from my permanently crotchety Japanese friend Toshi ringing in my ears, I set off with my family on an epic journey spanning the length of Japan to discover the wonders of Japanese cuisine.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Bloomberg.com

Japan Salarymen, Housewives Join Foreign Funds Effort to Change Japan Inc.

Southeastern Asset Management Inc. , Brandes Investment Partners LP and other foreign investors may have a new ally in efforts to hold directors responsible and seek higher payouts in corporate Japan: the nationa s 42 million individual shareholders.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

VietNamNet

Japanese film documents Agent Orange victims,

A celebrated Japanese director has returned to Viet Nam to film her second documentary on victims of Agent Orange .

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

The Japan Times

Japan's oldest man says 'thank you very much' in English

KYOTO Jiroemon Kimura, who at 112 is the oldest man in Japan, says he's glad to have the title.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

Circulation

[Integrative Physiology/Experimental Medicine] Reduced Collagen...

Contribution of Interleukin-1I2 and Nuclear Factor- B Tomohiro Aoki ; Hiroharu Kataoka ; Ryota Ishibashi ; Kazuhiko Nozaki ; Ryuuichi Morishita ; Nobuo Hashimoto From the Department of Neurosurgery , Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; and the Department of Clinical Gene Therapy , Osaka University, Graduate School of ...

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Japan Visitor Blog

Crime Posters in Kyoto

In contrast to the US - where a policeman could be part of the Los Angeles Police Department or the Orange County Police Department or, still different, the California State Police - in Japan, you are all part of one massive national armed crime-fighting team.

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