's Minokamo Site (located in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture) will be absorbed by EMCS Corp.

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Readers currently in Gifu, Japan for the General Conference of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers can test the solution for themselves beginning tomorrow.

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All four members of the Great Britain coxless four that won gold at the World Championships in Gifu earlier this year take part in the 550-crew Fours race.

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In a recent paper in The Lancet, Masashi Tanaka and his colleagues at the Gifu International Institute of Biotechnology, in Japan, reported that they had found a gene which is carried by a majority of Japanese centenarians, but by less than half of the rest of the Japanese population, suggesting that it could play an important role in a healthy old age.

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