2005.10.05

Tokyo Love story setting torn down (Asahi Shimbun). A ritzy restaurant that sparked a hot novel and the first right-to-privacy lawsuit in Japan has been torn down because the landlord no longer wanted to lease it out. 2005.10.05

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USA having DPRK contacts ahead of November talks  (Reuters). U.S. officials are having regular contacts with North Korea through the North's U.N. mission in New York ahead of the next round of six-country nuclear talks. 2005.10.05

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Tokyo lacking community spirit. (Asia Times) Officially, Japan wants a leadership role in the yet-to-be-born East Asian Community (EAC). Yet the reverse could be true, with US-allied Tokyo possibly playing a pivotal part in seeing that the grouping never even sees the light of day. 2005.10.05

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