2005.11.23

Japan-Space (Kyodo) Updated Japanese space probe now reported to have successfully landed on asteroid. 2005.11.23

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Japan-USN (Kyodo) The U.S. Navy will reportedly shut off atomic reactor on nuclear-powered carrier when it is home ported at Yokosuka. 2005.11.23

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Toyota vs GM (AP) Japan's top automaker ratchets up the pressure on ailing General Motors by planning to produce 100,000 cars at a plant in Indiana as Toyota moves closer to taking the top global spot in the industry. 2005.11.23

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Tokyo teacher embattled over war history (Christian Science Monitor). Miyako Masuda is a 23-year veteran of public schools here. Like many Japanese history teachers of her generation, she dislikes new textbooks that frame Japan as the victim in World War II. It bothers her that books claiming America caused the war are now adopted by an entire city ward. In fact, Masuda disapproves of the whole nationalist direction of Tokyo public schools. 2005.11.23

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ROK parliament approves rice bill amid scuffles, protests (AFP). South Korea's parliament approves a bill opening the domestic rice market wider to imports, triggering street protests across the country and scuffles inside the National Assembly. 2005.11.23

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CNMI-JAL (Radio Australia) Northern Marianas to plead with Japan's flag carrier to resume flights to the tourist-dependent commonwealth. 2005.11.23

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USA & Co. end KEDO Nuke Energy Project in DPRK (AP). The United States, Japan and their other partners today dealt the death blow to a project to build two light-water atomic reactors for North Korea to entice it into dismantling its nuclear weapons program. 2005.11.23

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DPRK Man Tells Prison Horror Story. (AP) A former North Korean political prisoner is recalling grim details of life in a communist regime prison camp, saying he saw many inmates die from overwork and starvation. 2005.11.23

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Japan bans Canadian poultry imports (CBC). Japan bans all imports of Canadian poultry, joining a list of countries spooked by the discovery of avian influenza in a duck on a Fraser Valley farm. 2005.11.23

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Disputed islet to get new ROK tourism facility. [Joong Ang Ilbo] South Korea's government says it plans to build an observatory on an disputed islet in the East Sea (called Dodko if you're Korean and Takeshima if you're Japanese), to accommodate a growing number of Korean tourists there. 2005.11.23

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