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Both diseases are caused by parasitic worms, which infect vast numbers of people in Asia and Africa.

Kosei Ono is the first five, bumping Harumichi Tatekawa to inside center, and Kotaro Matsushima switches wings to make way for Akihito Yamada. At present South Africa are fifth, Scotland ninth, and Samoa 11th.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 has been awarded to three scientists for discoveries that have transformed treatment of malaria and a few other parasitic diseases, which afflict hundreds of millions of people each year.

Japanese stocks rose on Thursday morning as gains on Wall Street helped calm nerves, with investors taking a glass half-full view to weak sentiment among major Japanese businesses and falling manufacturing activity in China.

The fly in the ointment from a Japanese perspective is that not only are Borthwick and Jones both moving on, momentum could be lost if the country’s proposed new Super Rugby franchise fails to get off the ground as planned in 2016.

Japanese rugby is now on a high with the national team enjoying its most successful Rugby World Cup campaign in 24-years and a record 20 million viewers in Japan tuning in to watch the team’s match against Scotland.

The Samoans kept it tight against South Africa for 15 minutes but their heads dropped after JP Pietersen’s interception try, the first of three for the Springbok winger in a 46-6 rout.

While their rugby team is still basking in the glory of upsetting South Africa last weekend, the organisers of the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup have been going through something of a stadium crisis.

Japan’s pacifist Constitution, which has lasted for over 70 years, will now just exist in name only. The cost could be a third lost decade.

Japanese bulk-shipper Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha sought bankruptcy protection in both Tokyo and New York Tuesday, with plans to restructure $1.5 billion in debt.

Trade ministers from the USA, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim countries opened final-stretch negotiations on Wednesday trying to seal a deal on the world’s largest free-trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was up 8.70 points, or 0.62 percent, to 1,419.86.

I thought they were wrong in November a year ago, and I still think they’re wrong now.

But with the nation’s deflation demon yet to be slain and the economy slowing, the Abe administration’s mixed progress on reform has given critics plenty of ammunition.

It will be divided into four conferences – with one in Australia and New Zealand each and two in South Africa.