Japan families come to Dominican Republic
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Between Teruki Waki's porch and the Constanza mountains lies the blooming farmland that hundreds of his fellow immigrants thought would never grow.
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One person's generator is the neighborhood's generator. Teenagers volunteer to clear debris from neighbors' lawns. A funeral home provides cremation services, at no cost, to a woman who lost her husband and home during Hurricane Jeanne.
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An estimated 14 million people across the Caribbean, including Jamaica (population of 2.7 million), Cayman Islands (43,000), and Cuba (11 million), are bracing for the impact of Hurricane Ivan as it tracks towards the Florida peninsula, the Census Bureau
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SAMANA, Dominican Republic - Tropical Storm Jeanne hovered near hurricane strength as it plowed through the northeastern Dominican Republic on Thursday, prompting thousands to flee their homes a day after pounding Puerto Rico and killing at least two people.    Jeanne was forecast to regain hurricane strength and move toward the Bahamas - devastated earlier this month by Hurricane Frances...
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that have hit the Niigata region, the Meteorological Agency said. A series of smaller quakes followed. No tsunami. hospital after being buried in a landslide and six people who were hurt slightly by parts of a wall that collapsed.
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It&#39;s the latest in a series of defections and attempted defections from the communist country. Seven people, believed to be North Korean refugees, have entered a Japanese school in Beijing.
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ANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Aug. 16 - Leonel Fernández returned to the presidency of this nation after a four-year hiatus on Monday, bracing Dominicans for austerity measures needed to ease an economic crisis that has caused living ...
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Japan will provide around $30 million in  aid to countries hit by an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed  more than 29,000 people, and will send three navy vessels to  waters off Thailand to help rescue survivors.
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They're waiting for Hrishida's  only survining son to arrive from the US before he's sent away for good to God.
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In Quezon province, hit earlier this week by a typhoon, relatives were looking for loved ones when second storm hit. BY PAT ROQUE.
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PORT BLAIR, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India -- As she fled the killer waves swallowing her island, Namita Roy gave birth to a boy in a forest. His name is Tsunami.
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Families holidaying in Asia describe the effect of the worst earthquake in the region for 40 years.
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Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko arrived in Latvia Friday on the third leg of a European tour that has taken members of the Japanese royal family into former Soviet territory for the first time.
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With three of the top four contenders for the American League&#39;s Most Valuable Player award from his country, Dominican Republic president Leonel Fernandez felt it was safe to host a celebration
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As talks with North Korea progress, families fear Japanese citizens snatched 30 years ago are forgotten
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PIEDRA BLANCA, Dominican Republic - Tropical Storm Noel triggered mudslides and floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, pushing the death toll to 81 yesterday and forcing some parents to choose which of their children to save from the surging waters.
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A family displaced by Sunday&#39;s tsunami sleeps on the floor of a school converted into a relief centre in Kalmuni, Sri Lanka December 30, 2004.