Tigers sweep away Yankees
From the moment the big first baseman signed his massive contract in January, an entire city had been waiting for a chance to celebrate like this. After another dazzling effort by Detroit's ...
View ArticleBritish artists lend hand to disaster victims
Hang in there: British artist Kate Thomson inspects cards with messages of support for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing nuclear disaster Aug. 30 at the Minamisoma Museum in ...
View ArticleUniversity of Tokyo fires Moriguchi over bogus claim of stem-cell tests
The University of Tokyo fired researcher Hisashi Moriguchi on Friday over his bogus claim that he conducted the world's first clinical trial using a trailblazing stem cell technology, it ...
View ArticleTanakas exit likely as scandal outcry grows
Justice Minister Keishu Tanaka's resignation was looking inevitable Friday as he faced mounting calls from both the ruling and opposition parties to step down over illegal donations and past ...
View ArticleYamanaka plugs domestic tech use
Helping hand: Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka is greeted by industry minister Yukio Edano at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Friday. ...
View ArticleShiraishi to Yakushima Nearly abducted by aliens
The journey didn't start this way. Our crew (two Australians, two Americans and three Japanese) left Shiraishi Island the morning of Oct. 3 under fair weather. We motored our yacht most of the ...
View ArticleJapan Russia confirm plans for substantive talks on isle dispute
Tokyo and Moscow confirmed plans Friday to conduct substantive talks soon toward a resolution of their long-standing territorial dispute over Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, Japanese officials ...
View ArticleHall of Fame guard Martin dead at 86
HOUSTON — Slater Martin, the Hall of Fame guard who won four NBA titles with the Minneapolis Lakers and one with the St. Louis Hawks, died Thursday. He was ...
View ArticleExperiences put game in perspective for Umesaki
SAITAMA — Urawa Reds will be disappointed if their pursuit of this season's J. League title comes to nothing, but attacking midfielder Tsukasa Umesaki has survived enough setbacks in his ...
View ArticlePolice apologize to Mie man for wrongful arrest over online threat
TSU, Mie Pref. — Police apologized Friday to a 28-year-old man and his parents in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, for wrongfully arresting him over a threatening message sent through his personal computer ...
View ArticleMisuse of reconstruction funds
It has surfaced that a special account budget to fund the reconstruction of communities devastated by the 3/11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters has been used to pay for unrelated projects. ...
View ArticleShukan Asahi tenders apology to Hashimoto
The publisher of the Shukan Asahi weekly magazine has issued a formal apology to Toru Hashimoto, admitting an article that detailed the Osaka mayor's "burakumin" outcast lineage and ...
View ArticleUSTR discusses TPP talks in Japan
Cutler, in charge of bilateral preliminary talks on the TPP, came to Japan amid low expectations for progress as the United States is only weeks away from a presidential election and discussions ...
View ArticleCabinet ministers to give Nobel laureate Yamanaka money to buy new washer
Sixteen Cabinet members will give congratulatory cash to Nobel Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka so the 50-year-old Kyoto University professor can buy a new washing machine, education and science ...
View ArticleFighters eliminate Hawks advance to Japan Series
SAPPORO — The Fighters simply preserved their momentum from the previous days, and the reigning Japan Series champion Hawks had no clue how to bounce ...
View ArticleCardinals pound Giants move within a win of World Series
To a man, the defending World Series champions kept their latest victory in perspective Thursday night. Before cashing in another wild-card run to a second straight pennant, they've still got to ...
View ArticleUchiyama Sato title bouts scheduled as part of New Years Eve tripleheader
WBA super featherweight champion Takashi Uchiyama and WBC super flyweight title holder Yota Sato will aim to defend their titles in a world tripleheader on Dec. 31 organizers said ...
View ArticleSharp to sell off U.S. solar subsidiary
The ailing electronics maker aims to sell the California-based company by the end of March 2013 for around ¥10 billion to ¥20 billion, in what would be Sharp's first sale of a major ...
View ArticleRecord 49 of Japanese companies are letting seniors work beyond 65
The proportion of companies where every employee can work until age 65 or beyond if they so wish rose to a record 48.8 percent this year, up 0.9 percentage point from 2011, the labor ministry ...
View ArticleEx-Upper House chief says Senkaku explanation lacking
The government's efforts to explain why it bought three of the Senkaku Islands is insufficient, according to former Upper House President Satsuki ...
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