Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Japan's pop. 126,434,964 (est. 2014)... interest in rugby has increased after the Brave Blossoms' win in the Rugby World Cup against South Africa; the largest protest so far has recently been mounted outside Japan's parliament; also Japan is placing pressure on North Korea regarding the abduction of its citizens.
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