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...seat turboprop planes. The venture failed following Asia's 1997 financial crisis when it lost government funding. During the 1960s, a Japanese consortium that included Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries built a 60-passenger turboprop - the YS11 - but the plane never found much of a market outside Japan and production was halted...
After a weekend of tense competition between 263 of the world's top competitors, 16-year-old Yu Nakajima of Japan was declared the winner of the main event of the 25th Rubik's World Speedcubing Championship, which was held in the Hungarian capital...
...cubing has potent mainstream appeal in Japan, the six-member Nippon team was followed to Budapest by two television news crews. And according to other cubers, the Japanese contingent, surrounded by an adoring entourage and paparazzi, arrived at their hotel on the eve of the championships like "rock stars...
...subscription-only club for DJs interested in avant-garde medley mixing, hosted the weekend in the 2,350-seat London Indig02 arena. In addition to the Battle for World Supremacy, DJs from 24 different countries—including Italy, Japan, Spain, and Singapore—competed in six-minute and team face-offs...
...mind last night. Toscanini’s owner Gus Rancatore presented each of the laureates with samples of ice cream that he jokingly claimed to have been inspired by one jet-setting laureate’s work. Mayu Yamamoto said she had flown all the way from Japan to receive her prize for the discovery of a process to extract vanillin from cow dung. In the chicken-themed “24/7 Lectures,” presenters were challenged to deliver a lecture in their field of study twice—the first time in 24 seconds or less...