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...report last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A team of Japanese researchers was able to link green-tea consumption with decreased mortality from all causes--including cardiovascular disease. The researchers tracked 40,530 healthy adults ages 40 to 79 in a region of northeastern Japan where most people drink green tea, following them for up to 11 years. Those who drank five or more cups of green tea a day had significantly lower mortality rates than those who drank less than one cup a day. There were also fewer deaths from cardiovascular disease...
Chemists in Japan have found that brown seaweed, widely used in Asian cuisine, contains a compound, fucoxanthin, that may promote weight loss...
...earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made." A pebble cast in the water may seem insignificant, but it creates ripples. Some ripples become waves, and some waves become tsunamis. Paul Lai Longwood, Florida, U.S. Imperial Influence Re "Japan's mystery of majesty" [Sept. 4]: It is ridiculous to cast the Imperial Household Agency as a shadowy and mighty institution that dictates the behavior of the Japanese royal family. It is only a minor government department. The royal family is more reserved than its European counterparts because Japan does...
...intensify. Shenkar of Ohio State notes that almost two-thirds of China's exports are generated by companies with foreign investors, a figure that rises to nearly 80% in high-value-added sectors like IT. There was far less foreign involvement in the economies of Korea or Japan at similar stages of growth, he says. "It's a serious weakness and has huge implications for national competitiveness and national security," Shenkar argues. China will have no choice but to use whatever methods it has to "recoup that lost share and build up a stable of companies that can be serious...
...mechanism, called multilateral consultations, designed to bring together groups that are economically large enough to resolve common problems while being numerically small enough to engage in candid discussion. Depending on the problem, the group will vary?for example, the first multilateral consultation brings together China, the Euro area, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. to discuss how to narrow global trade imbalances...