It would only take about five one-megaton bombs -- a couple on Tokyo and maybe three in the surrounding Kansai region -- to effectively end Japan as a functioning nation.
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But tensions on the military front are having an increasing impact on policy making in Washington and Beijing as China's growing military power starts to challenge the supremacy that the U.S. has enjoyed in the Asia-Pacific region since the end of World War II.
With factories across the region, the company concentrates its high-end work in Hong Kong and labor-intensive production in China.
For the Kurds, Shi'ites, Druse, Alawites, Copts, and other non-Sunni, non-Arab, or non-Muslim populations in the region, the end of Western rule meant the end of their relative freedom.
Ex-Australia assistant Muggleton left the region at the end of last term, having earned Priestland's gratitude.
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The immediate concern for Asian investors is how profit figures will pan out as the region's companies start to release their year-end figures for June (or half-year results for firms whose fiscal year ends in December).
Around the region, major exporters, which rely heavily on end-of-year sales in the world's biggest economy, rose after the solid start to the shopping season.
Around 300 years of maritime history has come to an end in south-west England after the region's last manned lighthouse became automated.
The 10-nation bloc is scrambling to beat a deadline to transform the strikingly diverse region of 600 million people into a European Union-like community by the end of 2015.
Mr Nkomo was a member of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu), which formed a unity government with Zanu-PF in 1987 to end conflict in the western Matabeleland region.
By the end of 2011, Time Warner was operating about 70 region-specific versions of its popular networks such as Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, TNT, truTV, Boomerang etc. and 57 other regional networks in more than 200 countries globally.
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So she is speaking to those nations in the region and those leaders who are going to the region about our efforts to achieve a de-escalation of the conflict that includes an end to rocket fire from Gaza.
Young singled out number eight Xavier Rush and admitted it will be almost impossible to replace the experienced New Zealander when he leaves for Ulster at the end of the season after he carried the Welsh region into the final at rain-soaked Adams Park.
With the region's long tradition of art glass, glassblowers are already setting their sights on the high-end cannabis crowd.
If the highly disciplined 80-year-old movement, which has been a wellspring of Islamist streams across the region, does indeed end up with some 40% of parliamentary seats, it may then have to choose either to align with secular forces or be pulled to the right by the Salafists.
Moves such as keeping nuclear-capable military assets in the region could unnecessarily prolong the risk of miscalculation after the Foal Eagle exercises end.
In January 1991, Kokang warlord Peng Jia-sheng assured visiting U.N. officials of plans to end heroin production in Special Region No. 1 within one year and eradicate opium cultivation within seven.
On the opposite end of Connecticut, the Litchfield Hills region is the state's other major destination for serious leaf-peeping.
This spring, the National Weather Service expects the river which bisects the Fargo-Moorhead region straddling North Dakota's and Minnesota's shared border to rise to the low end of the major flood range.
While the region have not given up hope of having him before the end of the season, they are considering a five-minute run on for the player in their final game if he does not recover.
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When the 47-year-old sheep farmer (and one-time student activist) appeared in court at the end of last month in the sleepy town of Millau, in France's south-western region of Aveyron, he attracted some 40, 000 fans roughly the same number who this week jammed Paris's Place de la Concorde to greet the French soccer team, back from winning the European championship in the Netherlands.
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