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Modern China and Japan have never been close. There's just been too much history between the two countries. But ties have improved lately and Beijing's Olympic torch made its tour of Nagano City without much incident last week (unlike a later, tumultuous journey through South Korea). But now, just as Tokyo is about to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao on a relatively extended state visit, a strange omen has occured: Ling Ling, the only panda that China has given rather than loaned to Japan, has died...
...Japan is in mourning over the 16-year resident and superstar of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Ling Ling died overnight of heart failure and kidney malfunction. His portrait now sits inside his cage, next to bouquets and his favorite bamboo shoots. Some visitors wept; others prayed and wrote notes to his memory. In 1992, Ling Ling was part of a bilateral trade agreement of sorts: the Chinese gave Tokyo a giant black-and-white panda - native to its southwest - in exchange for a panda the Japanese had bred in captivity. China has since stopped giving pandas away as part...
...news is that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda may ask Hu for a new panda. (Japan has eight pandas on loan from China.) The sad passing of Ling Ling could thus become an opportunity for the Chinese President to dramatically improve ties between Tokyo and Beijing. He is already getting the full VIP treatment during his May 6 to 10 tour. Hu will meet with Fukuda, then with the Emperor and Empress, and visit Yokohama's Chinatown as well as the historic city of Nara and the financial center of Osaka. Symbolically, it is already an important trip...
...Choir. Off campus, the work of this year’s Louis Sudler Prize co-winner can be heard from such illustrious groups as the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Youth Symphony and can be found being performed all across Germany and Japan. Lim has always been a musical prodigy. The San Franciso native began playing the piano at age four. A year later, she had already composed her first piece, “Imagine I Am a Ballerina,” which she wrote so that he could dance her ballet...
...disclose the car's total development costs, but he says it will cost some $785,000 just to compete at Le Mans. Funds have come from Tokai University, sponsors, and from Hayashi's own pocket. Additional cash is trickling in from a donation drive backed by the governor of Japan's Kanagawa prefecture, and Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn...