FTC issues third land ministry warning against bid-rigging
The Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday asked land and infrastructure minister Yuichiro Hata to take action against his ministry's continued engagement in bid-rigging, the third such request from ...
View ArticleMunicipalities battle to cope with pension waiver change
Municipalities hosting large foreign populations are scrambling to process their welfare benefits after receiving instructions from the Japan Pension Service to end the uniform pension premium waiver ...
View ArticleChristianity not without violence
Tolerance for hurt feelings ," she bemoans a lack of tolerance for her religion in the Muslim world, but her beloved Christianity has been demonstrably anti-Semitic since the first centuries of ...
View ArticleNTT unit buys City of London site
NTT Urban Development Corp., a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. arm, said Wednesday its British subsidiary, UD Europe Ltd., has acquired a seven-story office building in the City of London for ...
View ArticleGiants worried about winning not Holliday
"What's on our mind is to go out and play our best ball," Bochy said Tuesday night, a day before the best-of-seven series resumes at Busch Stadium with the Giants and St. Louis ...
View ArticleKDDI also considered move on Sprint this year but opted not to chief says
KDDI Corp. President Takashi Tanaka revealed Wednesday that his firm in the past year had discussed acquiring Sprint Nextel Corp. but in the end opted not to buy the U.S. ...
View ArticleLin still fighting racist attitudes after rise to prominence
NEW YORK — Jeremy Lin, the NBA playmaker of Taiwan and Chinese heritage whose rise last season sparked "Lin-sanity" worldwide, told GQ Magazine in a cover story that he still feels ...
View ArticleFamed scholar Imamichi 89 dies
Tomonobu Imamichi, a decorated philosopher and a professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo who proposed a new framework of ethics, died of colon cancer at a Tokyo hospital Saturday, people close ...
View ArticleGrandmas pictures tell story of tsunami readiness
When the magnitude 8.3 Showa Sanriku Earthquake struck on March 3, 1933, spawning tsunami that swept into her home in what is now Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Tabata, then 8, knew exactly what she was ...
View ArticleJapan should acknowledge past
Formosa (later Taiwan) was ceded to Japan by China in the Shimonoseki Treaty of 1895. So, the Nationalist Chinese who fled there were not "occupying" it, as Basu claims, but were in fact ...
View ArticleFrance calls up new faces for tests
PARIS — Eight uncapped players have been chosen and several veterans recalled by France for the November rugby tests against Australia, Argentina and ...
View ArticleDeath is unavoidably messy
Death by hanging not quick: data show " pursues an entirely different direction than the theme of speed of death by hanging that the headline ...
View ArticleUniqlo to set up childrens fund
Uniqlo said it will raise funds for the "Clothes for Smiles" project through sales of its Heattech innerwear and Ultra Light Down jackets, popular items in its lineup, this fall and ...
View ArticleImprove policing of cyber crimes
The Osaka prefectural police arrested a man from Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 26 and the Mie prefectural police arrested a man from Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 14, both on suspicion of posting ...
View ArticleSoeda defeats Teixeira in Sweden
STOCKHOLM — Go Soeda defeated French qualifier Maxime Teixeira 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Stockholm Open tennis ...
View ArticleBeyonce to perform at Super Bowl
NEW YORK — All the single ladies will be watching the upcoming Super Bowl along with football lovers — that's because Beyonce is the halftime show ...
View ArticleJapan humbled by Brazil in heaviest defeat under Zaccheroni
On another level: Atsuto Uchida (left) competes for the ball with Neymar during Brazil's 4-0 victory over Japan on Tuesday in Wroclaw, Poland. ...
View ArticleIs geography behind sea-ice paradox
These could be very positive developments for the region, especially for the energy-short trading economies of Northeast Asia led by Japan, China and South Korea. But the dramatic decline in both ...
View ArticleFans of The GazettE spread news abroad
Let's get visual: The GazettE consists of (from left) Aoi, Reita, Ruki, Kai and Uruha (all of whom go by one name). Their new album, "Division," takes their brand of visual-kei in a ...
View ArticleAnime on the rise Down Under
Kindred spirits: "Cosplayers" dressed up as "anime" characters pose for the camera during the World Cosplay Summit 2012 in Nagoya in August, which drew people from 40 countries. ...
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