2005.10.22

Japan-Baseball (Kyodo) For the first time in Japanese baseball history a game is called due to fog -- unfortunately for the losing team it just happened to be in the seventh inning of the first game of the Japan Series. 2005.10.22

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Trying to meet the people in DPRK (BBC). Granted a rare visa to visit North Korea with a film crew, a BBC correspondent wanted to speak to the ordinary citizens of its capital, but he found it was not as easy as he had hoped. 2005.10.22

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Japan-Quake Another quakes shakes the Kanto region: 震源地 福島県東方沖 発震時刻 2005/10/22 22:12:47.09 緯度 37.098N 経度 141.126E 深さ 52.3km マグニチュード  5.5 2005.10.22

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Japan-Iraq (Kyodo) Shiite cleric in Iraq talks up suicide attack on Japanese troops. 2005.10.22

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Asia-Automotive (VOA) Automakers displaying at the Tokyo Motor Show have their eye on China. 2005.10.22

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Japan-Economy (AP) Deflation in Japan cuts prices for consumers but hurts economy overall. 2005.10.22

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Door-to-door revolt   (Asahi Shimbun). More Japanese households refuse to pay the NHK man. 2005.10.22

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DPRK-Nuclear (VOA) North Korea said ready to abandon all nukes, rejoin NPT, allow in IAEA inspectors, hold democratic elections, renounce communism, allow freedom of worship and freedom of the press. OK, only the first part is supposedly true. 2005.10.22

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