2006.03.31

Euthenasia debate reignites in Japan. [Radio Australia] In Japan, a national debate over euthanasia has been parked by a doctor who has confessed to helping a number of terminally ill patients die. Doctors can do this in Japan, as long as certain criteria are met. But in this case the doctor himself concedes that he may not have met those conditions. And the case has now prompted cals for the legal situation to be clarified. 2006.03.31

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Japanese nuclear plant to start tests (AFP). Japan's first plant to extract plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel has started test runs in hopes of providing much-needed energy despite protests from environmentalists. 2006.03.31

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Japan-Politics (VOA) Top leadership of opposition Democratic Party of Japan resigns. President Seiji Maehara announced this afternoon he's quitting to take responsibility for the debacle that was meant to cause a scandal in the governing Liberal Democratic Party, but instead backfired -- fueling a crisis in the DPJ leadership ranks. 2006.03.31

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ROK-USN Jet (Stars & Stripes). U.S. Navy divers out to salvage wreckage of F-16 that crashed off South Korean coast. 2006.03.31

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DPRK-Switzerland (AP). U.S. government targets Swiss firm for North Korea ties. 2006.03.31

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