In Japan the government is using its fibers in experimentally wiring an entire Japanese town, Nara.

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's headquarters in the central Japanese town of Ogaki looks like anything but a high-tech hotbed.

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In the southern Japanese town of Yatsushiro, not far from the East China Sea, Chikashi Matsunaga is helping lead a quiet revolution in Japan's agriculture.

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He was the second of three boys born to an ethnic Korean father who ran a pachinko parlor in a small town on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.

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Around that time, his wife-to-be Sandy, a Japanese-American friend of the family who grew up in a neighboring town, told him she wouldn't move down from San Francisco to be with him unless they got married, and he wouldn't get married unless he had a job.

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Japanese and American forces clashed here in 1945, and most of the buildings in the town were destroyed.

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The two insomniacs quickly find an intimacy with each other that has gone missing in Bob's marriage and can't ever have existed between Charlotte and John, who's more at home with his pal Kelly (Anna Faris), a motor-mouthed bimbo in town for a press junket to sell her latest movie in the all-important Japanese market.

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Already flags and photographs of the Japanese national team, who will play three of their four matches in Townsville, can be seen dotted around the town.

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