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64th Kyoto Takigi noh performance to be held

64th Kyoto Takigi noh performance to be held
The 64th Kyoto Takigi noh performance will take place from 5:30 p.m. on the first weekend of June in Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto. Featured are the plays “Tamanoi,” “Hanjo,” “Ochanomizu” and “Koi no Omoni” on June 1, and “Kamo,” “Mitsuyama,” “Kubibiki” …
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America wants Kyoto Protocol replaced with peer-pressure campaign
America never ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and it doesn't want the rest of the world ever signing anything like it again. As world climate delegates try (not very successfully, mind you) to thrash out a new agreement to replace the protocol, which …
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EU beats Kyoto target ahead of deadline
Under the Kyoto Protocol (see related story), in 2008, the European Union committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. Analyzing figures recently released by the European Environment Agency, Sandbag …
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John Kerry's misfire on US performance on Kyoto emissions targets

John Kerry's misfire on US performance on Kyoto emissions targets
“The United States of America today is below Kyoto levels in emissions. People don't know that. The United States today is actually below the Waxman-Markey legislation mandates that didn't pass. So we're doing things — automobile efficiency, standards …
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A distinctive Machiya — 'Misuya-Bari' in delightful Kyoto Special
Following the devastation caused by the Ōnin War (1467-1477) in central Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of Japan's great unifiers, redesigned the city of Kyoto. In an effort to provide for suitable dwellings and to facilitate the development of commerce …
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