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Japan prepares to shut troubled 'dream' nuclear reactor
Decades-old plant has cost almost $10bn and hardly ever operated
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Business Trends
Chatty robots in Japan begin to make all the right moves
Researchers create lifelike humanoids by enhancing verbal and nonverbal skills
Science
Google expands in Taiwan, its top Asian R&D hub
New round of hiring follows internet group's takeover of HTC mobile unit last year
Science
Chocolate is not exactly brain food, Japan admits
Shoddy research behind report backed by government and confectionery maker Meiji
Business Trends
Japan's university startups top 2,000 for first time
Ventures in biotech and health care outnumber IT fledglings
Japan-Update
Laos and Nepal to ride Japan's microsatellites into space
University project will expand telecommunications coverage to monitor environments
Science
Race on to deliver doping-free Tokyo Olympics
New tests required to catch cheats using blood, gene and brain techniques
Japan-Update
Inside a meltdown-hit Fukushima reactor building
Seven years on, Tepco aims to pull fuel out of Unit 3's rubble-strewn pool
