Less than four months after lift-off, testing on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory is complete, and science operations have begun. The data recorded by the mission, which will ...

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After 28 years of activity, the popular group SMAP is to break up at the end of this year. They have played a unique role in the Japanese entertainment industry, becoming national icons along the way.

Prime minister Shinzo Abe among those expressing relief that one of Japan’s most successful bands of all time is staying together after rumours of split Looking as if they were about to attend a ...

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The adult members of a Japanese boy band have appeared on national television bowing and apologising for attempting to break up. The Japanese boy band SMAP apologise for attempting to break up SMAP is ...