Deschamps hurt by France loss to Japan
Blue Samurai beat Les Bleus Shinji Kagawa scored two minutes from time at the Stade de France to leave Deschamps with questions to answer ahead of a daunting trip to the world and European champions ...
View ArticleDonaire risks world titles vs Japanese foe
CARSON, California--A clash of strategies between two of the world's best ring tacticians will be featured Saturday night (Sunday morning in Manila) when Nonito Donaire Jr., puts his IBF and WBO ...
View ArticleHarvard denies authorizing studies by Japanese researcher claiming...
Harvard University has confirmed that neither it nor Massachusetts General Hospital has authorized any iPS-related clinical studies by Hisashi Moriguchi, a researcher at University of Tokyo Hospital, ...
View ArticleJapanese royal couple visits village near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
Tokyo, Oct. 13 (Xinhua-ANI): Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Saturday visited a village near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The one-day trip to Kawauchi, Fukushima ...
View ArticleJapans alliance with US serving as Senkaku deterrent for China says ambassador
Japan's alliance with the United States has served as a 'deterrent' in the territorial dispute with China as it called for calm in the row, Japanese ambassador to the U.S. has said. Though ...
View ArticleJapan seeks closer energy ties with UAE
The Japan has sought to bolster energy relations with the UAE, a Japanese official said. The emirate of Abu Dhabi already meets around 25 percent of Japan's demand on crude oil, and recently become ...
View ArticleStronger growth will help tackle huge debt overhang says Lagarde
TOKYO - IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde Friday expressed concerns about the waning of reforms momentum while urging the global leaders to move beyond the system that led to the financial ...
View ArticleEDITORIAL Oi reactors should be idled again for new safety checks
The No. 3 and 4 reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant, operated by Kansai Electric Power Co., continue running even though the government-led summer power-saving campaign is over. The two reactors ...
View ArticleChina Sept. exports jump 9.9 imports up 2.4
BEIJING--China's exports grew at roughly twice the rate expected in September while imports returned to the path of expansion, suggesting government measures to prop up economic growth are ...
View ArticleSome progress but radiation remains high at Fukushima nuclear plant
Crushed tanks are left unattended on the sea side of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 4 reactor turbine building in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 12. A radiation level of ...
View ArticleHisashi Moriguchi meets reporters in New York on Oct. 12.
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest daily, published a front page apology in its Oct. 13 morning edition admitting its sensational reports earlier in the week on the transplant of human induced ...
View ArticleWomen could save Japans economy IMFs Lagarde
TOKYO: Women could rescue Japan's chronically underperforming economy if more of them went to work, the female director of the International Monetary Fund said ...
View ArticleJapan China embark on propaganda war
The Yomiuri Shimbun/Asia News Network Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 TOKYO/BEIJING--One month has passed since the government put part of the Senkaku Islands under state control in September. Japan had ...
View ArticleResurgent Japanese militarism a world threat
Since the Japanese farce of "purchasing" China's Diaoyu Islands plunged the bilateral relationship to its lowest point in years, all contenders in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ...
View ArticlePedrosa closes gap with Japan win
Dani Pedrosa closed the gap on MotoGP championship leader Jorge Lorenzo to 28 points with a win in Japan. The pair almost collided going into the first corner as Yamaha rider Lorenzo led from ...
View ArticleJapan Lenders Bailing Out Sharp May Increase Oversight
Sharp Corp. (6753) to the tune of $4.6 billion may increase their management oversight of the Japanese television maker to support its return to profit. Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. and Bank of ...
View ArticleTime To End All This Doom And Gloom Over Sony And The PlayStation
One thing I'm absolutely sick and tired of hearing is how Sony is toast, doomed to failure, at the end of the proverbial line. It's the hip thing to do, apparently, to predict the end of ...
View Article‘Peeping Tom’ on Japan flight avoids charges – reports
TOKYO - A ';peeping Tom'; who used a pen-shaped camera to take an upskirt shot of a cabin attendant during a domestic flight in Japan has avoided charges after prosecutors failed to decide ...
View ArticlePedrosa wins Japan MotoGP Stoner 5th
Casey Stoner grabbed fifth place in the Japanese round of MotoGP as Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa won the race to close on points leader Jorge ...
View ArticleChina Japan resumes dialogue over Diaoyu Islands dispute
The text on the electronic screen installed on the Chinese surveillance ship Haijian 50 read: the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islets have been the inherent territory of China since ancient ...
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