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TOKYO: Pivotal campaigns kicked off Thursday across Japan with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe facing the first major electoral test of his embattled government.

Abe's public ...

Jesuit University says pro-abortion documentary celebrates “the power of the human spirit and intellect to prevail.”

“We seek to empower everyone with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a very real difference,” said an advertisement from the Jesuit University of San Francisco.

The advertisement announced that the university was hosting a Human Rights Film Festiv...

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After spotting a distress signal in a distant mountain range, a National Guard team decides to commence a search and rescue mission into the hills, where a tribe of cannibalistic mutants lies in wait.

Two children discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they th...

Historians from China and Japan have given up cowriting a single history of Sino-Japanese relations in a joint study project sponsored by the two governments because of the apparent huge gaps in their views and time constraints, Japanese participants said Tuesday.

"We have never thought of (cowriting a single history) given the time frame. It's impossible," said University of Tokyo profe...

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The precise meaning of Joseph Frederick's homemade, 14ft banner proclaiming "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" may have been unclear. Was he suggesting, for instance, that a lungful of marijuana brings you closer to God? Was he somehow saying that Jesus would have approved of recreational use of cannabis?

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Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby, Berk; (510) 841-6500, www.shotgunplayers.org. $17-25. Previews Wed/21-Thurs/22, 8pm. Opens Fri/23, 8pm. Runs Thurs-Sun, 8pm (also April 15 and 22, 5pm). Through April 22. See Picks.

Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market; 512-7770, www.altarholics.com. $25-80. Tues-Sat, 8pm (also Wed and Sat, 2pm); Sun, 2pm. Through April 8. The Broadway musical parodies boy bands.

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TOKYO - Japan was morally responsible for forcing women to work in wartime brothels, a former Japanese leader said on Monday, in a veiled criticism of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's comments on sex slaves.

Former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, who made a landmark apology for Japan's wartime actions in 1995, also said efforts by politicians to justify World War Two were making Asian neig...