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  • March 2008

    • Red Sox Boycott Resolved Bloodlessly

      Associated Press  |  Mar 19, 08 2:25 PM CDT

      Red Sox Boycott Resolved Bloodlessly

      (Newser) - The Boston Red Sox are headed to Japan as planned after Major League Baseball gave in to players' demands that team coaches be paid for the trip, the Boston Globe reports. Players threatened not to board this afternoon's flight to Tokyo for season-opening games Tuesday and Wednesday against Oakland; "everyone connected with the trip will be fairly compensated," an MLB rep said. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • Japan  • Boston Red Sox  • boycott  • Jason Varitek

    • How Yahoo Would Improve Microsoft

      MarketWatch  |  Mar 18, 08 6:24 PM CDT

      How Yahoo Would Improve Microsoft

      (Newser) - Yahoo today restated its opinion that Microsoft’s $44.6 billion buyout bid underestimates the online giant’s “combination of unique assets,” but for the first time stated publicly the strengths it would bring to the Microsoft merger, MarketWatch reports. In an investor presentation for the SEC, the company argued it would take Microsoft "from sub-scale position to strong positions in search and display." More »

    • Dextre Lives! Space Robot Gets Power

      Associated Press  |  Mar 15, 08 1:46 PM CDT

      Dextre Lives! Space Robot Gets Power

      (Newser) - Dextre's finally getting some juice. Astronauts aboard the international space station solved a glitch last night and got power flowing to their partially built robot, the AP reports. Now they can go ahead with a spacewalk tonight to finish assembling it. “There was obviously some real concern over the last day or two for getting that powered up,” said one official. More »

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      Japan  • NASA  • Canada  • International Space Station  • Discovery space shuttle  • spacewalk  • Dextre  • Kibo  • Endeavor space shuttle

    • Dollar Sinks Below 100 Yen

      Financial Times (UK)  |  Mar 13, 08 5:10 AM CDT

      Dollar Sinks Below 100 Yen

      (Newser) - The dollar's decline continued today, dropping below the symbolically dramatic threshhold of 100 yen for the first time in 12 years. The greenback held on just above ¥100 during the trading day in Tokyo before slumping to ¥99.80 in Europe this morning. The dollar took a pummeling across the board, trading at record lows against not only the yen but also the euro and the Swiss franc. More »

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      Japan  • US dollar  • Nikkei  • Tokyo  • yen

    • Tourism Busts Pre-9/11 Record

      Reuters  |  Mar 11, 08 3:00 AM CDT

      Tourism Busts Pre-9/11 Record

      (Newser) - Nearly 57 million foreign tourists visited the US last year, pumping more than $123 billion into the economy, Reuters reports. It's the first time a tourism record has been broken since the 9/11 attacks staggered the industry. Some 17.7 million visitors traveled from Canada and 15 million from Mexico. Some of the increase is fueled by the weak dollar. More »

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      Japan  • United States  • Mexico  • Canada  • tourism  • Department of Commerce  • Carlos Gutierrez

    • Killing Exposes Sumo's Brutality

      Washington Post  |  Mar 10, 08 4:50 PM CDT

      Killing Exposes Sumo's Brutality

      (Newser) - Seventeen-year-old sumo wrestler Takashi Saito was beaten to death 8 months ago, but the Japan Sumo Association took until last Thursday to punish the alleged culprits—Saito’s trainer and three fellow wrestlers. The dawdling response was much too slow to prevent a public relations disaster: Japan now knows that most sumo stables have baseball bats—to beat wrestlers with. More »

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      Japan  • Takashi Saito  • baseball bats  • beatings  • sumo wrestling

    • Nations Mull Secret Whaling Compromise

      Independent (UK)  |  Mar 9, 08 4:02 PM CDT

      Nations Mull Secret Whaling Compromise

      (Newser) - Representatives from more than 70 governments gathered last week at a secret meeting in London to hash out a compromise that would allow Japan to resume commercial whaling for the first time in more than 20 years. Pro- and anti-whaling nations discussed plans to lift the worldwide ban on whaling, but not without raising the ire of environmentalists, the Independent says. More »

    • Japanese 'Frankenwhale' Experiments Slammed

      Australia's News Network  |  Mar 8, 08 11:14 AM CST

      Japanese 'Frankenwhale' Experiments Slammed

      (Newser) - Scientists have reviewed the research Japan uses to justify hunting whales, and they've concluded that it is mostly useless—and very weird, Sydney's Daily Telegraph reports.   Researchers tried to fertilize cow and pig eggs with whale sperm, and to create test-tube whales from frozen sperm.  "It's totally esoteric, very strange research," an Australian scientist said. More »

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      environment  • Japan  • whale  • whaler  • Japanese whale hunt  • science experiment  • minke

    • Whaling Protester Says He Was Shot

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 7, 08 10:03 AM CST

      Whaling Protester Says He Was Shot

      (Newser) - An anti-whaling activist says he was shot during a clash with a Japanese ship on the high seas, the Guardian reports. Japanese officials deny the allegations from the captain of the Sea Shepherd and say they fired only flash grenades, not bullets. Paul Watson, though, says he pulled one from his Kevlar vest. More »

    • 4 Marines Face Court-Martial in Hiroshima Rape Case

      AFP  |  Mar 6, 08 6:10 AM CST

      4 Marines Face Court-Martial in Hiroshima Rape Case

      (Newser) - The American military has announced it will court-martial four Marines on charges of gang-raping a Japanese woman in Hiroshima last year. The first two Marines will face a general court-martial in late April or early May. Japanese prosecutors had concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to charge them in a civilian proceeding. More »

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      Japan  • US military  • Condoleezza Rice  • Marine  • US Marine Corps  • Okinawa  • court martial  • Hiroshima

    • Michelin Guide Knocks Classic Paris Eatery

      Bloomberg  |  Mar 4, 08 11:10 AM CST

      Michelin Guide Knocks Classic Paris Eatery

      (Newser) - Now that the Michelin food critics have declared Tokyo the world's culinary capital, this week's publication of the 2008 guide to France had the feeling of a day of reckoning. Sure enough, the red book reduces Paris' vaunted Le Grand Véfour from three stars to two, citing inconsistency at a restaurant that predates the French Revolution. "No stars are awarded out of kindness," said the guide's director. More »

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      France  • Japan  • Paris  • restaurant  • best restaurants  • restaurant criti