2005.11.20

Champion dog eater wins burger battle (Daily Telegraph). Takeru Kobayashi, best known as the world champion speed hot dog eater, devours 67 mini hamburgers in eight minutes. 2005.11.20

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Japan suffers new glitch on landmark mission to probe asteroid (AFP). Japan's space agency says it suffered a failure for the second time on a landmark mission to extract samples from an asteroid 290 million kilometers from Earth. 2005.11.20

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Japan-Russia (VOA) Russian President Putin has arrived in Japan -- a country with which his nation is technically still at war. The two former WWII rivals will not be settling their long-running territorial dispute this week -- and to further complicate matters there is now a third party trying to stake its claim. 2005.11.20

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Japan-Asia (Reuters) American declares itself frustrated with Japan's strained ties with its Asian neighbors. 2005.11.20

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Japan-Trade (AFP) Japan dodging calls for tariff cuts. 2005.11.20

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