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Entertainment briefs - Feb. 28

...their guest appearances, often televised, with major orchestras such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, the Osaka Symphony, the Yomiuri Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic. Concertante repertoire ranges from the classic multiple-instrument...

http://brainerddispatch.com/entertainment/2013-02-27/entertainment-briefs-feb-28
Entertainment
Men's Basketball: YMCA playoffs schedule changed

...another on his favorite surface - since returning from a left knee injury.Indian Wells is his first hard-court title since Tokyo in October 2010, having lost in six previous finals on the surface. He won his 600th career match and will move to No. 4...

http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/2013-03-17/mens-basketball-ymca-playoffs-sche
Sports
Robert 'Bob' Cadwell

...10, 2013, at St. Cloud Hospital. He was born to Sergeant First Class Bruce and Setsuko Cadwell on Nov. 29, 1960, in Tokyo, Japan. With his father serving in the military, Bob spent his younger years in many different places around the world...

http://brainerddispatch.com/obituary/2013-01-11/robert-%E2%80%98bob%E2%80%99-cad

...few countries to have successfully launched a satellite into space from its own soil. But leaders in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo immediately pushed for consequences over a rocket launch widely seen as a test that takes the country one step closer to being...

http://brainerddispatch.com/2012-12-12-1
Frank Formanek

...Lane, Idaho. Upon completion of boot camp he served on the USS Gasconade in the Pacific Theater of Operations. He was in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered to the allies and was witness to that historic event, which ended World War II. Upon completing...

http://brainerddispatch.com/obituary/2012-11-25/frank-formanek
Malcolm Gladwell test has Japan turning Chinese

TOKYO - If you want to silence a room filled with...decades now, economists have been urging Tokyo to create a special-enterprise zone or...growth-revitalizing strategies employed by Tokyo, the most favored ones are debt and concrete...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2012-01-05/malcolm-gladwell-te
Other Opinion
Kan can't

...lining: Perhaps the squabbling leaders in Tokyo would pull together and rally to the cause...Japanese leader to step down in five years. Tokyo, like Washington, has divided rule...demographic pressure? Early returns from Tokyo aren't encouraging.- Washington Post

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-08-31/kan-can%E2%80%99t
Other Opinion
Japan's task

...in Japan aren't a whole lot better. Uncertainty reigns in Tokyo, where Prime Minister Naoto Kan's approval rating has sunk...the cause of electricity conservation, with the result that Tokyo's peak electric power demand so far this summer has been almost...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-08-01/japan%E2%80%99s-tas
Other Opinion
Dayton leads Minn. trade mission to South Korea

...mission to South Korea that also includes several stops in Japan.Dayton left Friday en route to Japan, where he'll stop in Tokyo to attend the Midwest-U.S. Japan Association Conference. Minnesota is hosting that meeting next year. He'll also promote...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-09-23/dayton-leads-minn-trade-mission-sout
News
From Up on Poppy Hill

Now Playing Synopsis: Set in Tokyo a few months before the 1964 Olympic Games, From Up on Poppy Hill tells the story of Umi, a teenager whose father died during wartime, and who shoulders much of the responsibility for her family's business in addition to maintaining good grades at school. Her orphaned friend Shun lives in a mansion on the school grounds with dozens of other kids, and when their home is threatened with demolition, Umi and the others do their best to stop the dwelling from being destroyed. From Up on Poppy Hill is the second feature by Goro Miyazaki, the son of acclaimed animator Hayao Miyazaki. The film played at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi Cast: Sarah Bolger, Masami Nagasawa, Isabelle Fuhrman, Anton Yelchin, Junichi Okada, Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Yuriko Ishida Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

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