Akita is on top and Osaka and Kochi are slumping once again, according to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, following the announcement of the results of the National Assessment of Academic Ability.
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Akita maintains top spot, Kochi and Osaka fall further in academic ability ranking
Japan’s national baseball team, which had gone to the Olympics determined to bring home a gold medal, finished in fourth place.
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Lack of international savvy, inflexibility doomed Japan’s national baseball team
A large collection of photos of the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 in Yokohama have been found in the home of a Tokyo resident.
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150 photos of post-Great Kanto Earthquake Yokohama found in Tokyo home
KDDI Corp., the operator of au brand cell phones, has announced the release of the Sharp Urbano, a mobile phone targeting middle-aged and elderly customers that is due to go on sale mid-September.
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Slick new au phone targets middle-aged and elderly customers
KABUL, Afghanistan — A man under arrest in Afghanistan in connection with the abduction of a Japanese man who was later murdered said that the Taliban ordered the kidnapping, it has been learned.
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Alleged abductor of murdered Japanese man says Taliban ordered kidnapping
The Oita Prefectural Board of Education has decided to sack 21 teachers confirmed to have illicitly passed the employment exam for the 2008 academic year, following an investigation into a recruitment scandal.
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When University of Michigan professor Scott Page was in charge of admissions for the university he did not look only at test scores, but also focused on students’ personal backgrounds and experiences.
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The Social Insurance Agency has announced that nearly 1.19 billion yen in pension benefits went unpaid between April 1999 and July 2008 due to a mistake in calculating pension amounts for people receiving an elderly workers’ salary supplement under an employment insurance scheme.
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FUKUSHIMA — Prosecutors have dropped an appeal against the acquittal of a doctor who was charged over the death of a 29-yer-old woman during a Caesarean section operation.
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Prosecutors drop appeal against doctor’s acquittal over Caesarean death
