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Device lets paralysed ‘mind talk’Japan - Japanese companies have developed a device that allows patients suffering from severe muscular paralysis to communicate "yes" or "no" by measuring blood flows in their brains. |
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Holy Squid! Photos Offer First Glimpse of Live Deep-Sea GiantOgasawara Islands, Japan - Like something straight out of a Jules Verne novel, an enormous tentacled creature looms out of the inky blackness of the deep Pacific waters. |
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Japanese probe parks near asteroid targetJapan - After two years of travel through the inner solar system, Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft has reached its target - asteroid Itokawa. The probe 'parked' about 20 kilometres away from the asteroid on Monday. |
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Japan Embarks On Journey To Center Of The Earth To Study Birth Of LifeTokyo, Japan - Japanese scientists are preparing to dig deep inside the Earth for the first time in human history to unlock the mysteries of life in an attempt to figure out how civilization came to be and how to save it. |
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Seeing double with a two-image TVTokyo, Japan - t could end arguments over which channel to watch on television: next month Sharp, the consumer electronics company, will launch a liquid-crystal display that shows two different images to people watching from the left and the right. |
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This loo has a lot to sayTokyo - Japan's famously hi-tech toilets which can frighten foreign visitors with their range of buttons have never stopped evolving. Now the call of nature can turn into a medical check-up. |
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WHO says fear of global bird flu pandemic easingInternational scientists have downgraded the risk of an imminent bird flu pandemic, hailing as "very good news" indications that the virus has not mutated. |
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Group Rejects Japanese Plans for Coastal Whale HuntUlsan, South Korea - Japan suffered yet another setback on Thursday in its bid for more whaling when an international commission rejected a plea to allow Japanese coastal communities to hunt whales. |
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Whistleblowers gain respect in JapanTokyo, Japan - For much of his 30-year career, Hiroaki Kushioka's office was a closet-like room. A college graduate, he would pass the time gardening or shoveling snow. |
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Mobile phones get cornyTokyo, Japan - Japanese firms say they have developed a plastic made of corn for mobile telephone bodies, meaning users need not fear polluting the environment. |
news from East Asia
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- Japanese City Finds Treasure in Recycling Unwanted Electronics
- Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projects
- Top UN official upbeat as many Member States commit to emergency relief fund
- Japanese Workers Forsake Cubicles, Embrace Outdoors
- UN disarmament events kick off in Republic of Korea and Brazil
- Japan says to spare humpback whales again
- Wind power can prevent climate change: study
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