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Record-high 86% back death penalty Daily Yomiuri| A record 85.6 percent of people accept capital punishment, with 59.3 percent saying the 25-year statute of l...
S. Korea fires E. Asia warning shot Daily Yomiuri| As if to remind Japan coach Takeshi Okada who has been to the World Cup semifinals and who hasn't, South Kor...
Schoolboy mistake costs Tokai Univ. Daily Yomiuri| Fortune certainly favored NTT Communications Shining Arcs and NEC Green Rockets on Sunday. | NTT made the mo...
Government touts water conservation Taipei TimesA SERIOUS DROP: With only three of the nations 12 major reservoirs receiving sufficient amounts of rainfall ...
Three killed, five injured in car crash Taipei Times| Three people were killed and five injured in a traffic accident on the Caotun () section of Freeway No. ...
