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A Japanese aid worker who was rescued from the rubble following last month’s earthquake in Turkey said that the glow from her laptop “calmed me down and gave me hope to stay alive.”
The newly installed head of the US Navy’s 7th Fleet, which is based in Yokosuka, claims to spend “a lot of time thinking about North Korea.”
Officials at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries say that no national defense secrets were lost during a recent cyber-attack on its servers, although the company didn’t rule out the possibility that “important data, such as those related to nuclear power, have been leaked.”
An Air SDF pilot whose plane crashed into the East China Sea in July and whose body was never recovered is believed to have suffered from G-LOC, or g force-related loss of consciousness.
A poll conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Xinhua news agency found that 17 percent of Japanese have a positive view of relations with China, while 46 percent of Chinese have a positive view of Japan.
Stats
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Estimated number of the birds in the wild today, thanks to a conservation project by the Hyogo Prefectural Government24,000
Age of human bones found on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa, the oldest ever discovered in Japan1,000
Regular users of a bicycle-sharing service that began in Setagaya Ward in 2007
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It’s official-Guinness World Records has declared the 634m-tall Tokyo Sky Tree the world’s tallest tower, supplanting the 600m Guangzhou Tower in China.It is hoped that a new “open skies” agreement between Japan and Taiwan will boost the number of Taiwanese tourists coming here.
An American scientist whose work “led to the creation of stronger, lighter alloys used in cellphones” was one of three winners of this year’s Kyoto Prize, which is worth a cool ¥50 million.
It was reported that a Fukushima-based manufacturing company has received 3,000 pre-orders for its newly developed Geiger counters, including one that “allows users to display radiation readings on a smart phone.”
Bottom Story of the Week: “Man Reunited with Fateful Picture Book After Some 70 Years.” (via The Mainichi Daily News)
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