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  1. Ancient Japanese

  2. Japanese

  3. Japanese Search Engine (MSN)
      Provides Web searches in Japanese. 6-00

  4. Japanese-English Dictionary (Breen - Peterson)
      Translates English words into Japanese and gives alternative contexts. Does not require Japanese fonts to be downloaded. 6-00

  5. Suzuki, Ichiro (Famous Personages in Japan)
      Provides a short biography of the famous baseball player. Last entry was in 1998. 6-01

  6. Japanese Resources (iLoveLanguages - Chambers)
      Provides lessons, dictionaries, translation guides, news, and literature. 1-02

  7. Fastest Computer Now From Japan (International Herald Tribune - Markoff)
      Describes a new computer for climate monitoring that was developed in Japan.

  8. Awesome Library in Japanese (Requires Japanese font.)

  9. Japanese Books Search (Amazon.co.jp)
      Provides searches in Japanese. Requires the Japanese font. 6-02

  10. -See and Hear Web Pages in English, Japanese, or Other Languages (Awesome Library) star
      Awesome Talkster allows you to hear Web pages. You can, for example, set the voice to Japanese and start with www.awesomelibrary.org/Japanese.html to see and hear the Web in Japanese. By adding a voice to Web pages, children and teens can learn to pronounce words as they read them. Awesome Talkster includes an animated character, providing synchronized highlighting so that children can follow along even more easily. This multi-sensory approach is a powerful method for improving reading skills. Online books for children and teens to practice their reading skills are available in the Awesome Library. 1-03

  11. Japanese Encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org)
      Provides over 10,000 articles in the language. 12-04

  12. Japan Makes Largest Tsunami Donation (Bloomberg.com)
      "Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi pledged $500 million to international tsunami relief and reconstruction work, becoming the biggest donor nation." 01-05

  13. -4-12-05 Tensions High Between China and Japan (CNN News)
      "Protests are rare in China, with the government keeping a tight rein on any public gatherings and banning most demonstrations."

      "But while China's government has urged protesters to remain calm, and avoid extremist behavior, it has been tolerant of these anti-Japanese demonstrations, urging Tokyo to take a 'responsible attitude' towards history."

      "The protests saw tens of thousands of protesters call for a boycott of Japanese products, burning flags and shouting anti-Japanese slogans."

      "Tokyo has demanded an apology and compensation from Beijing for the damage caused by protesters, and demanded that Chinese authorities protect Japanese in China."

      "The tensions can be traced back to Japan's military campaigns in the last century. Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, and occupied various parts of China until 1945." 4-05

  14. -4-16-05 Shanghai: Chinese Crowds Protest Against Japan (CBS News)
      "About 20,000 anti-Japanese protesters rampaged in Shanghai on Saturday, stoning Japan's consulate and smashing cars and shops in a protest over Tokyo's wartime history and its bid for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat. Thousands of police watched but did little to restrain the crowd."

      "Japan filed an official protest, complaining that Chinese authorities failed to stop the violence."

      "The Shanghai government, however, blamed Japan for the protest, saying it was sparked by 'Japan's wrong attitudes and actions on a series of issues such as its history of agression,' the official Xinhua news agency quoted government spokeswoman Jiao Yang as saying late Saturday." 4-05

  15. -07-25-05 Japan Plans World's Fastest Computer (Fox News)
      "The American Blue Gene/L system supercomputer developed by International Business Machine Corp. at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, currently holds the title of the world's fastest. That machine is capable of 136.8 teraflops, or 136.8 trillion calculations per second, according to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology."

      "Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene, an official of the ministry said on condition of anonymity." 7-05  

  16. -09-11-05 Koizumi Re-Elected as Prime Minister of Japan (BBC News)
      "Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has won an overwhelming victory in lower house elections, according to results published by the media." 9-05

  17. -09-20-06 Shinzo Abe to Become Next Japanese Prime Minister (Bloomberg.com)
      "Shinzo Abe was elected head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party today, ensuring he will succeed Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister next week." 09-06

  18. -03-20-07 Japan Vows to Lead in Fight Against Global Warming (USA Today)
      "Japan aims to play a leading role in the post-Kyoto battle on global warming and will seek the full engagement of the USA and China, the world's top two polluters, officials said Tuesday."

      "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will ask his cabinet ministers to develop a package of proposals to present to next year's Group of Eight summit of world leaders which Japan will host, they said." 03-07

  19. -09-01-08 Japanese Prime Minister Resigns (Time.com)
      "Japan's unpopular prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, announced his resignation Monday after less than a year in office."

      "Fukuda, in a hastily arranged news conference Monday evening, said he was stepping down to avoid a "political vacuum" at the head of the world's second-largest economy." 09-08

  20. Japanese Workers Urged to Go Home Early (CNN News)
      "In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more babies."

      "Japan in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another major problem: the country's low birthrate."

      "At 1.34, the birthrate is well below the 2.0 needed to maintain Japan's population, according to the country's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare."

      "Analysts say the world's second-largest economy faces its greatest threat from its own social problems, rather than outside forces. And the country desperately needs to make some fixes to its current social and work structures, sociologists say." 01-09

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