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		Radar Screen Rock bands with fishy names? We've got just the site. | 
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		Switched On Justin Hall puts the bite on a very small digital camera. | 
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		Future City's Wireless Hotspots For Kids Mitaka's hotspots will initially be for educational purposes only, but the city is considering expanding usage to residents some time in the future...  | 
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		Best of the Rest -- Taking Japan's Pulse IY Bank, KDDI, SESC Monitors, Jal to offer inflight Internet Service and Toyota and Honda in tight race tp the first with fuel-cell car | 
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		Softbank CEO Son Says Government Pressuring Him to Keep Aozora Bank Shares in the Family
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		The Pulse 2 The best of J@pan Inc's newsletter: Gadget Watch, Wireless Watch and Music Media Watch | 
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		Pulling Japan From its Socialist Roots The largest opposition party's No.4 man is 38, savvy and focused on just one thing: wresting power from the "socialist" party better known as the LDP. 
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		Forging a Path for Homeschooling One family thinks it might have a better way than Japan's notoriously staid schools. | 
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		Tepco's Power Play Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s move to team with Internet Initiative Japan looks set to stoke telecoms competition. | 
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		Hold That Call... So, what's the story -- are cellphones frying our brains or not? | 
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		Wireless and Fries Next time you pick up a Big Mac, don't forget your laptop, your Wi-Fi card and your ISP subscription. Gail Nakada gets wireless in Tokyo's fastest-food joints. | 
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		TOKYO: The High-Tech Slum Stephen Mansfield uses pen and camera to explain why the capital city can look like such a mess and still be on the cutting edge of technology. | 
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		Japan's Medical Revolutionary Kameda Medical Center on the southern tip of Chiba is shaking the Japanese medical establishment by showing what's possible on the high end of health care. | 
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		A Yokohama Neighborhood's Battle to Cut Through Red Tape The regulation of business in Japan -- red tape galore in Yokohama. | 
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		IT Penetration: Japan Just Fair to Middling We all know Japan is a high-tech heaven, but when it comes to IT penetration, its numbers are, well, mundane. | 
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		Network Democracy An intimate discussion with one of the leaders in Japanese networking hardware | 
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		Blowfish Little mountains, money laundering, dependency on China and the roundest heads in the world. | 
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