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View ArticleAtomic industry bankrolls Japan’s nuclear watchdog
A quarter of Japan's tsunami relief fund has been spent on unrelated projects, including renovating a government office and subsiding whaling. The revelations have ignited outcry as more than ...
View ArticlePanel at odds over fault at Oi nuke plant
A fault running under the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture is definitely active, an expert on a Nuclear Regulation Authority panel investigating the compound's safety said Sunday, as other ...
View ArticleSupport for Cabinet falls to record low
Public support for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet stands at a record-low 17.7 percent, down from 29.2 percent in October, while the disapproval rating stood at 66.1 percent, an opinion ...
View ArticleSeiyu faked staff data for OTC drugs certification exam
Supermarket chain Seiyu GK is suspected of falsifying documents to allow more than 200 of its employees to take an examination to sell over-the-counter drugs, including for some who had never worked ...
View ArticleJapan interested in construction of direct gas pipeline between Sakhalin...
TOKYO, November 4 (Itar-Tass) -- Japan considers the variant of possible construction of a 1,400-kilometre-long direct gas pipeline between Russia’s Sakhalin and Japan’s Ibaraki ...
View ArticleProtests in Tokyo against US Osprey aircraft
Protestors stage a rally against the deployment of US Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey in Okinawa, at a park in Tokyo, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Many Okinawans believe the aircraft isn't safe to ...
View ArticleDecision on Japan nuke plant fault line postponed
TOKYO (AP) -- Experts have postponed a decision on whether a fault line underneath Japan's only operating nuclear plant is active and the facility should be ...
View ArticleQualifier reaches Paris Masters final
PARIS — At the start of the year, Jerzy Janowicz couldn't afford to travel to the Australian Open. Now he's in line for a major payday, with only David Ferrer standing in the way of ...
View ArticleMany municipalities lack disaster evacuation sites
About 35 percent of municipalities that fall inside the government's newly expanded disaster preparation zones around nuclear plants have yet to secure sufficient evacuation sites in the event ...
View ArticleCarps top pick signs with team
HIROSHIMA — The Hiroshima Carp's first-round draft pick, outfielder Hiroki Takahashi, signed a provisional contract with the Central League club on ...
View ArticleHamilton earns pole in Abu Dhabi
ABU, Dhabi — Lewis Hamilton's slim hopes of a second drivers' championship flickered when he secured pole position for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and Formula One leader Sebastian Vettel ...
View ArticleExcess supply not lack of demand weighing on the global economy
The demand and supply balance is adjusted through price fluctuations under a market economy. However, price changes often go too far, occasionally leading to creation of a bubble boom and its ...
View ArticleMaking Asias stifled services a growth source
MANILA — The eurozone crisis has dominated discussion among policymakers over the past few years, but the economic slowdown in Asia's two giants — the People's Republic of China ...
View ArticleHuck beats Arslan to retain title
HALLE, Germany — German cruiserweight Marco Huck successfully retained the WBO title for the 10th time with a unanimous decision win over compatriot Firat Arslan on ...
View ArticleHyogo native retains chocolatier title
Sweet victory: Susumu Koyama receives flowers upon being named top foreign chocolatier by France's Le Club des Croqueurs de Chocolat at a ceremony in Paris on Friday. ...
View ArticleJapans former Lower House vice speaker Kansei Nakano plans to retire from...
Former Lower House Vice Speaker Kansei Nakano will not run in the next general election and intends to retire from politics due to his advanced age, sources close to him revealed ...
View ArticleMao comes from behind to claim win in Cup of China
Mao, who was second after Friday's short program, earned 181.76 points to overtake Russian teen Julia Lipnitskaia, who lacked the speed and polish she displayed to win the short ...
View ArticleTaking the pulse of political change
What another lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said of Milton's "Paradise Lost," can be said of this campaign: No one ever wished it longer. Voters, having heard enough, might agree ...
View ArticleTrailblazer settles for fourth place
Yutaka Take-ridden Trailblazer placed fourth Saturday as Little Mike stunned some of the world's top grass horses to win the $3 million Breeders' Cup Turf in ...
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