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Australia Challenges Japan Over Antarctic Whaling

Australia has launched proceedings in The Hague’s International Court of Justice to try and stop Japan from whaling in the South Pacific, as part of UN legal action initiated by Australia in 2010. Written by Chris White Lawyers representing...
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Italy 4 / Japan 3

Japan only narrowly defeated by Italy: http://www.viralbucket.com/italy-4-japan-3/
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Japan Head To Brazil!

Japan are going to Brazil. They are the first side, apart from the hosts, to have sealed their qualification to the premier international football competition. Keisuke’s injury-time penalty against Australia secured Japan’s place at the...
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Nikkei Falls To 6 Week Low

Last Monday the Nikkei 225 index fell by 3.7% to a 6 week low of 13,261.82. It has fallen by 15% since hitting a five-and-a-half year high last May. Written by Chris White The fall was partly due to a collapse in Japanese shares on foot of weak...
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Is Bestiality Legal?

Bestiality or ‘zoophilia’ (sex with animals) is completely legal within 17 different countries, which are: Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,...
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Squashed Beetle Art

Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor has turned a 1953 yellow Volkswagen Beetle into an unblemished sphere as a modern art work which he has simply called “The Beetle Sphere”. Written by Chris White The Jakarta-based modern artist he spends his...
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Stimulus Crumbling as China Slows Down

World stock markets tumbled today after Chinese production for the first time in seven months and as Ben Shalom Bernanke announced that the Federal Reserve was preparing to scale back on bond-buying as the US economy maintains full growth moment,...
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US Condemns Japanese

The US State Department issued a statement yesterday strongly condemning remarks made by Mayor Toru Hashimoto of Osaka City, when he defended the use of sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II as “necessary”. Written...
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The Folly of Sanctions

WASHINGTON—Playing in theaters across the United States is a film called “Upside Down,” about an alternate universe where twin worlds sit stacked like bread in a sandwich, separated by opposite gravities. If our world could somehow have...
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Kim Jong Un: Muppet

North Korea loves to threaten to start World War III. In the last week alone, it has warned Japan that it might launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against it and released a video detailing its plan for a three-day invasion of South Korea. The...