Japanese car sales down in China
Since the dispute over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea (which are known as the Diaoyu Islands in China), Japanese car sales have plummeted in China. Earlier this month, Toyota announced its ...
View ArticleSome dementia causes reversible
Future of senile dementia, " Japan's health authorities need to raise public understanding that dementia, a clinical syndrome of acquired intellectual impairment, could be caused by both ...
View ArticleFood co-op sues Tepco over soiled reputation
Nanohana Seikyo — a Chiba Prefecture food distribution cooperative with about 11,500 members — made headlines last month when it took on the role of David by suing the corporate Goliath ...
View ArticleHeterodox views enter mainstream
It is a testimony to Yoshihiko Amino's influential legacy that his once iconoclastic views regarding Japanese history have now become mainstream. This bad boy of Japanese historiography from the ...
View ArticleWhy stem-cell science thrives in Japan
Hayashi too has long been interested in pushing the boundaries of human reproduction. "When I was child, there was news about animal cloning," he told me. "That was one reason why I ...
View ArticleDementia sufferers need familiarity
Future of senile dementia, " I read with pleasure that the Japanese government is planning to help sufferers and carers. As the daughter-in-law of an 83-year-old dementia sufferer, I welcome the ...
View ArticleIntern baptism by fire Doctor X Surgeon CM of the week Aeon Topvalu
Hospital dramas never seem to go out of style. Two new series centered on female physicians premiere this week — and in fact, they premiere on the same night, at the same ...
View ArticleWomen in their 40s have it better than men
It was a shock and a disappointment to learn, courtesy of a survey released in August by the Dai-ichi Life Research Institute, that men in their 40s are the unhappiest people in Japan. Who are the ...
View ArticleFarmer plows own antiradiation furrow
As Ito sees it, he can't do too much intelligence-gathering because he says he cannot hope to protect the health of the area's children, including his own two toddler grandchildren, by ...
View ArticleKorean film on school bullying rings true in Japan
Last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released statistics for 2009 in which Japan ranked 31 out of 31 developed countries in terms of the portion of GDP spent by the ...
View ArticleSenkakus not a dumping ground
Radioactive debris to Senkakus, " I believe this opinion is unreasonable and unacceptable. First,we should not bring the radioactive debris of Fukushima to the Senkaku islands. The islands and ...
View ArticleSpirits linger on storied Kudaka Isle
A world apart: Okinawan priestesses called noro (above, in an old print found in a Naha bookstore) were and may still be integral to life on Kudaka Island. STEPHEN MANSFIELD ...
View ArticleQuakes role in Fukushima disaster
Fukushima 50 " workers as saying, "The (power generators) were knocked out by water from the tsunami. I thought it was all over." The reporter then adds that "the workers ...
View ArticleChina-Japan trade falls on isle row
BEIJING — China's trade with Japan fell 1.8 percent from January to September compared with a year earlier, Chinese customs data showed Saturday, amid huge anti-Japanese protests that ...
View ArticleCards advance with epic comeback
It was the largest comeback ever in a winner-take-all postseason game, according to STATS LLC. No other club in this sort of ultimate pressure situation had come back from more than four runs ...
View ArticlePyongyang Settle past before talking of abductions
PYONGYANG — North Korea's second in command, Kim Yong Nam, said the abduction of Japanese nationals "has already been settled" and urged Japan to address the suffering of those ...
View ArticleMorifuku stays calm in pressure-packed situation
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Reliever Masahiko Morifuku made his first postseason appearance of the year in the ninth inning, with the bases loaded, nobody out, and his team clinging to a ...
View ArticleKakunakas fortunes change in a hurry
Nakajima, expected to leave Japan for the major leagues in 2013, appeared ready to go out with the title under his belt. He led the league during a good part of the year, and as late as Sept. 26 had ...
View ArticleU.S. hospital No record of researchers iPS trial
BOSTON — The U.S. hospital where researcher Hisashi Moriguchi claimed to have conducted a cutting-edge stem-cell treatment said Friday there are no records of him having undertaken the ...
View ArticleIchiro delivers key hit as Yanks make ALCS
Driving the gap: New York's Ichiro Suzuki rips an RBI double against Baltimore in the sixth inning of Game 5 on Friday night. The Yankees beat the Orioles 3-1 to win the series 3-2. ...
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