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The countryside is dotted with picturesque rice paddies and farmland. But in many rural communities, agrarian work is threatened because so many farming households are comprised of elderly people. Some 380,000 hectares of farmland now lie fallow. This represents about 10 percent of all farmland nationwide. To raise the nation's food self-sufficiency rate, and to help preserve the natural environment, this trend must be halted. (Asahi)

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(MarketWatch)

Yahoo Japan Corp.'s auction Web site has been illegally accessed about 1.5 million times since May with codes and passwords stolen from members from an Internet protocol address in China. (Yomiuri)

Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's. It's got pictures of the funky Tokyoite modeling the clothes she designs in her spare time, along with her name, plus personal details and ramblings in slightly awkward English about her love life. Switch to her site on mixi, Japan's dominant online hangout, and her identity vanishes. (International Herald Tribune)

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(Yomiuri)

(Kyodo)

(webpronews.com)

Japan has the world's best infrastructure for broadband services, helped by its fiber- optic networks, according to research conducted by two European universities. (Reuters)

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