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TODAY'S TOP STORIES
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Hashimoto signals double Osaka polls
Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto looks set to submit his resignation to the prefectural assembly, paving the way for mayoral and gubernatorial elections to be held in late November.
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Passed gas may yield colorectal cancer clue
Studies by Japanese researchers on intestinal gas and its sulfur-containing compounds may help develop new measures to detect colorectal cancer by examining flatulence, according to an article in the U.K. magazine Nature Review.
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Cabinet OKs \12.1 trillion third extra budget to fund reconstruction work
The Cabinet approves a \12.10 trillion third extra budget for fiscal 2011 to finance reconstruction work in the disaster-hit northeast.
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OTHER NEWS
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Breakdown of spending package
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Over 100 politicians rally against TPP
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Civil servants face bigger pay cuts
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Legal means 'might be useful' in North abduction issue
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Fukushima OKs petition to decommission reactors
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Two boys found with high internal radiation exposure
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Married pairs now have less than two kids: poll
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Parties agree to fix vote disparity
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Fukushima cedar pollen to be tested
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
U.S. rockers' 'anison' album debuts
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Cabinet discusses Futenma plans
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Noda tells NHK he's keen to join TPP
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Ex-radio center will be preserved
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Foreign students help get the word out on Chubu tourism
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Hashimoto, Osaka face watershed poll
ERIC JOHNSTON
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BUSINESS
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Cabinet OKs \2 trillion for yen crisis
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Electricity sales log record decline
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
INCJ may buy Panasonic LCD plant
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Tokyo Gas may join more LNG gas field projects overseas
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Ministries target 24.1% increase in gas mileage
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Eyeing Asia mart, LinkedIn launches in Japanese
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Ibaraki Airport voted CAPA's low-cost airport of the year
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Olympus scandal triggers rampant margin-trading
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Honda enlists Thai soldiers as floods approach
DANIEL TEN KATE and ANUCHIT NGUYEN
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Capcom expects phone games to generate 30% of profit
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OPINION
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[JT EDITORIAL]
A business-like summit
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[JT EDITORIAL]
No end in sight for nuclear crisis
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[OPINION]
Al Jazeera: Qatar's promoter of the Arab Spring
KHALED HROUB
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[OPINION]
TPP key to America's future economic success in Asia
MICHAEL RICHARDSON
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FEATURES
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[LIFE IN JAPAN]
Briton aims to restore poets' peak to former glory
JANE SINGER
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[LIFE IN JAPAN]
Telling time with animals
AMY CHAVEZ
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[LIFE IN JAPAN]
Yawn of the dead? Not in this life
THOMAS DILLON
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SPORTS
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[BASEBALL]
Late rally gets Rangers even
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[BASEBALL]
Kershaw captures Spahn Award
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[BASEBALL]
Murton powers Tigers past woeful BayStars
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[AMERICAN FOOTBALL]
Report says Harrison ill
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[GOLF]
Miyazato slips to ninth after 73
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[ICE HOCKEY]
Third-period surge carries Ovechkin, Capitals past Flyers
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[BASKETBALL]
NBA season in jeopardy after labor talks break off again
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[SPORTS]
Wheldon funeral set for Saturday
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[SPORTS]
Time for Manchester City to show mettle
CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
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[SPORTS]
Ozaki to race in Yokohama Marathon
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