A federal court jury has awarded more than $164,000 in damages to a former University of Oregon assistant professor who filed a lawsuit in 2007 alleging disparate treatment based on race or national origin.
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Half-Japanese professor wins suit for being subjected to Japanese racial discrimination in the U.S.
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Why is Japan so.... According to Google auto-complete
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Same question asked and answered about China, the U.S., and Canada as well.
US - Japan Open Skies Agreement Could Mean Better Vacation Travel Ticket Deals
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The U.S. and Japan have reached an historic airline agreement to relax limits on flights between the two countries. This would open the possibility to find more extensive airline alliances that could book more tickets and give better deals for travelers at the airport.
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U.S. cars excluded from Japan's cash-for-clunkers program
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The good news for automakers is that Japan is mounting its own cash-for-clunkers program. The bad news is that foreign automakers -- like Ford and G.M. -- are effectively excluded, even though half the vehicles bought under the U.S. program were Japanese.
Read more »China urges U.S. to correct intelligence report
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China is urging the United States to correct its opinions about China in its 2009 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) report.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said China has always been a strong force in safeguarding and promoting world peace and stability, and China's development does not pose a threat to any other countries.
Japan’s New Leader Reassures U.S. on Alliance
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Scrambling to mend fences with his country’s biggest ally, Japan’s next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, told President Obama and the United States ambassador on Thursday that the American alliance was the basis of Japanese foreign policy.
Read more »100,000 rally against U.S. in North Korea
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Punching their fists into the air and shouting “Let’s crush them!” some 100,000 North Koreans packed Pyongyang’s main square Thursday for an anti-U.S. rally as the communist regime promised a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” for any American-led attack.
Six technologies that passed America by
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Though this story is technically about the U.S., most of the technologies mentioned were picked up and developed by the Japanese.
Turning Japanese
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The following are from prepared remarks of Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics for delivery to a U.S. Joint Economic Committee.
LAPD detective reveals details of Miura's arrest
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When Jackson learned from Miura's blog that he was planning a trip to Saipan, the detective decided that apprehending Miura on U.S. soil was his best option; he would finally be able to bring Miura in. In order to avoid his plans from leaking out, Jackson and the LAPD did not inform Japan of Miura's planned arrest.
When consumers cut back - A lesson from Japan
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The economic malaise that plagued Japan from the 1990s until the early 2000s brought stunted wages and depressed stock prices, turning free-spending consumers into misers and making them dead weight on Japan’s economy.
One piece of U.S.-Japan baseball history
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It was 44 years ago that then MLB Commissioner Ford Frick squashed U.S.-Japan baseball relations over a dispute centering around lefthanded reliever Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player to ever don a Major League Baseball uniform.
Check out the full article on the other side of the link for some interesting information about the history of U.S.-Japan baseball relations.
Study the art of sushi at SushiTrainer.com!
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Making real sushi is almost an art form in Japan, normally requiring years of apprenticeship and training to master the proper way of preparing the rice and how to use the knives that are essential elements of Japanese cooking.
Read more »Japan sees U.S. repeating its mistakes
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The Japanese have been here before. They endured a decade of economic stagnation in the 1990s as their banks labored under crippling debt, and successive governments wasted trillions of yen on half measures to restore them.
Japan top execs say crisis is due to US shortcomings, as they adopt US practices
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Japan's business leaders said Tuesday the U.S. financial crisis has shown the shortcomings of America's freewheeling approach to business, but defended the end of this nation's tradition of lifetime employment as needed to keep up with global changes.
Dollar to dip below 90 yen?
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Lawrence Lindsey, a former economic policy adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush, has told Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo the U.S. dollar could slip below 90 yen.
