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Business › Japan's trade deficit expands nearly 70% in April

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Japan's trade deficit expanded a worse-than-expected 70% on year to 879.9 billion yen in April, government data showed Wednesday, as a weaker yen made imports costlier.

The monthly trade deficit was 69.7% higher than the year-before deficit of 518.4 billion yen, finance ministry data showed.

The deficit was the biggest…

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Technology › Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-one entertainment

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Microsoft thinks it has the one.

The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price.

For the past two years, Microsoft…

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Careers › Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?

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It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.

But now we've got David Karp, who doesn't even have a high school diploma. Karp, 26, founded Tumblr, the online blogging forum, and sold it to…

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Opinions › Diplomatic firestorm underlines why ‘foreign policy’ is key for corporates, not just countries

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Google unintentionally sparked a diplomatic row earlier this month following its decision to change the name on its “Palestinian territories” homepage to “Palestine”. The move, which Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly called a “victory for Palestine and a step toward its liberation”, provoked immediate complaint to the firm from Israeli…

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Picture of the Day › Bad eggs

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Anti-Japan protesters throw eggs at a banner with Japan's rising sun flag, in front of the official residence of the Japanese ambassador during a rally in Seoul on Tuesday. The rally was held to denounce Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and also Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto who said last week…

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Lifestyle › Tommy Bahama Ginza - Shop, dine and chill out at Tokyo's newest resort oasis

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Probably like the majority of the Japanese, I wasn’t familiar with Tommy Bahama before they opened their spacious two-story store with bar and restaurant in Ginza last month, the brand’s first flagship store in this country. I read that it’s a casual fashion brand with an island vacation theme (the…

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Opinions › Scrambling for the immigrant elite

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A new era has arrived in immigration. Many countries - the United States, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands - have for decades taken in poor immigrants with the express intention that they would do work that native citizens had become reluctant to do. The labor was either too hard,…

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World › U.S. Congress grills former IRS boss over tax scandal

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Under fierce questioning by U.S. lawmakers, the political appointee who headed the IRS during the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups insisted Tuesday he was not involved in the scandal.

Senators grilled retired IRS boss Douglas Shulman about what he readily acknowledged was "inexcusable" behavior by agents who, from 2010,…

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World › Mexico to keep troops in troubled state until peace restored

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Mexico's government pledged Tuesday to keep thousands of troops in Michoacan until peace is restored in this western state tormented by violent drug cartels.

Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong held a meeting of the national security team in the state capital Morelia with local officials to discuss a crime…

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Sports › Klopp laments Kagawa's Man Utd role

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Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp says he is heartbroken to see his former star player Shinji Kagawa playing only a peripheral role at Manchester United.

The 24-year-old Japanese midfielder left Dortmund for Old Trafford last year and, although he ended his first season in England as a league champion, he…

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