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World News tagged with Japan

Global Campaign Condemns Japanese Rape Videogame
World  (tags: rape, Japan, international, human rights, global campaign, government, ban )

Susty
- 219 days ago - us.oneworld.net
An international human rights group has launched a global campaign demanding the Japanese government ban a video game in which players simulate the rape of a woman and her two daughters.
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Chinese Demand and Financial Crisis Cause Surge in Kenya Elephant Poaching
World  (tags: world, africa, japan, china, smugglers, poachers, tusks, congo, financial crisis, money, crime, animals, elephants, ivory, wildlife, humans, death )

Tom
- 291 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A combination of the global economic crisis and soaring Chinese demand for ivory has prompted a "dramatic and alarming" surge in elephant poaching in Kenya. "This is something we have not seen for a very long time, if at all," said Patrick Omondi.
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Evening in Japan
World  (tags: arts, japan, cities, amazing, pictures )

Veljko
- 353 days ago - sense4fun.com
Fabulous shots of Japanese cities at night.
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Is Japan Getting Scared ???
World  (tags: protection, Whalers, Sea Shepherd, Greenpeace, Japan )

Claudia
- 415 days ago - care2.com
The Japanese Government could radically escalate tensions between whalers and protest ships by sending a heavily armed Coastguard vessel to Antarctic waters this year
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Japan. Sponsors Withdraw - Www.Unmadeinchina.Org,
World  (tags: JAPAN, TORCH RELAY, BEJING OLYMPIC )

Bea
- 595 days ago - unmadeinchina.org
According to "Japan Times" three sponsor firms (Coca-Cola Japan Co, Lenovo Japan Ltd and Samsung Japan Corp) have decided not to furnish their logo-marked vehicles to the Beijing Olympic torch relay in Japan. They took their decision after the torch relay
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Golden Pavilion Temple
World  (tags: travel, pavilion, golden, Japan, temple )

Veljko
- 602 days ago - bored-space.com
Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion Temple) is the informal name of Rokuon-ji ( Deer Garden Temple) in Kyoto, Japan.
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Citizens of Japan Find Bush Guilty of Afghan War Crimes Sunday, March 14, 2004
World  (tags: Japan, war crimes, Bush, tribunal, afghanistan )

Gregory
- 610 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp
A civic tribunal was be held in Tokyo, starting July 21, 2003."indicting" George W. Bush for war crimes allegedly committed against the Afghan people. These hearings lasted for 1 full year. Why were Americans not told?
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Why Hiroshima Is Now More Important Than Ever   video
World  (tags: USA, war, HIroshima, atomic bombs, nuclear weapons, war profiteers, defense contracts, Pentagon troops, civilians, japan )

Blue
- 633 days ago - youtube.com
There was virtually nothing left of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these two huge cities. They had been razed to the ground by the atomic bombs, decimating their populations.
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Greenpeace Pulls Out of Whaling Chase - Southern Ocean
World  (tags: world, australia, japan, greenpeace, whales, hunting, southern ocean )

Chrissy
- 687 days ago - abc.net.au
Environmental group Greenpeace says its anti-whaling ship Esperanza, which has been shadowing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, is running low on fuel and will return to port.
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Esperanza Webcams | Greenpeace International - Live Web Cam
World  (tags: esperanza, southern ocean, greenpeace, japan, whaling, whales, antarctica )

Chrissy
- 692 days ago - greenpeace.org
Here you can witness just what is happening at all hours from the web cams on the Esperanza. refreshes every 30 seconds and you can access hours previously.
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Greenpeace Harassing Whaling Fleet - Southern Ocean
World  (tags: greenpeace, whaling, whales, japan, japanese, refueling, illegal, southern ocean, antarctic )

Chrissy
- 692 days ago - news.com.au
GREENPEACE activists in an inflatable boat are trying to stop the Japanese whaling factory ship from refuelling in Antarctic waters, the environment group says. The protesters had been running their boat between the Nisshin Maru and the Oriental Bluebird
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ON THIS DAY - 1995: Earthquake Devastates Kobe
World  (tags: on this day, japan, kobe, earthquake, deaths, 1995 )

Chrissy
- 696 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of people are feared dead and thousands injured after a powerful earthquake struck Japan at dawn. Worst hit was the port of Kobe, a city of 1.5 million. Whole buildings, apartment blocks and an elevated highway collapsed killing at least 200
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Arrangements in Place to Return Anti-Whaling Activists - Australia
World  (tags: australia, japan, japanese, whales, sea shepherd, southern ocean, hostages, activists, whales )

Chrissy
- 697 days ago - abc.net.au
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith says arrangements have been put in place for the safe return of two men, including an Australian man, from a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean. Mr Smith says Benjamin Potts and Briton Giles Lane will be
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Take Action: Ask Prime Minister Rudd to Stand Up for Whales - Australia
World  (tags: australia, petiton, whales, japan, kevin rudd, labor, australian whale sanctuary, southern ocean, court, government )

Chrissy
- 697 days ago - community.hsus.org
The Australian Federal Court has confirmed that the Japanese whaling company Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Ltd. is in breach of Australian law when it kills hundreds of whales in the Australian Whale Sanctuary and has ordered that the hunt be stopped. PETITION!
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Japan's Monks Take Buddhism to Bars
World  (tags: beer, buddhism, japan, monks, bars, drink )

Cissy
- 718 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
In societies where life is busier than ever, where cities are swelling and families dispersed, the religious rituals of yesterday do not seem so relevant. But in Japan, a group of Buddhist monks are trying to change that.
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