A role for Japan in Antarctic marine protection
When people hear the word "Antarctica," they might think about penguins or towering icebergs. But the Southern Ocean makes up 10 percent of the world's ocean and is home to almost ...
View ArticleDance event charity for the deaf Temple symposium on liberal arts education
Kozo Keikaku Engineering, an engineering design firm, will hold an event called KKE Vision 2012 from Oct. 24 to 26 at the Hilton Tokyo in Shinjuku. Each day has a theme; the 24th is about new ...
View ArticlePitching defense key S.F. Giants to 2nd title
SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants' championship formula is a familiar one, just with new faces all over the diamond two years later: stellar starting pitching backed by a shut-down bullpen, a ...
View ArticleYokota base joint use still pushed by Tokyo
Tokyo says it badly needs a third airport to help it meet rising demand for passenger flights. And its officials think just the right airport already exists: the U.S. Yokota air base in the sprawling ...
View ArticleHokkaido power-saving goal 7
The government is considering asking people in Hokkaido to cut electricity use by 7 percent this winter from the level in fiscal 2010 in the face of the suspension of Hokkaido Electric Power ...
View ArticleWhen should a cyberattack be considered an act of war
He warned of a "cyber Pearl Harbor," evoking one of the most tragic moments in American history, when Japanese bombers unleashed a devastating surprise attack on a U.S. naval base in Hawaii ...
View ArticleTrading Pretty Quiet with US Markets Closed Again Japan Extends QE President...
THE SPOT MARKET gold price traded just below $1715 an ounce during Tuesday morning's London session, little changed from last week's close, while European stock markets recovered their ...
View ArticleJapan Steep production decline
Industrial production declined for the third consecutive month due to the termination of the car purchase incentives and the weakening overseas demand, the latter reinforced by a territorial conflict ...
View ArticleLondon NY session The Bank of Japan and super-storm Sandy vie for the headlines
The worst of super storm Sandy appears to be over and the clean-up operation is underway. It looks like the damage is extensive and flooding, power outages and damages to train and public transport ...
View ArticleWW II bomb found at Japanese airport forces evacuation
Employees deal with passengers at the counter at Sendai Airport in Sendai, northern Japan after flights were canceled Tuesday when an unexploded bomb believed to be from Second World War was found ...
View ArticleUS-India-Japan trilateral meet to cont...
Sina English The third India-U.S.-Japan trilateral discussions will be held in New Delhi on Monday. The U.S.' 'pivot-to-Asia' policy, Iran, China-Japan maritime dispute and South ...
View ArticleUS Dollar dips after Bank of Japan issues news on easing effort
TOKYO--The U.S. dollar eased against the yen in Asian trade on Tuesday following a much-anticipated announcement by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) that it would boost its easing effort by an extra 11 ...
View ArticleJapanese auto supplier fined for price fixing
AFP © <p>Toyota cars for sale at a Toyota dealer in Hollywood, California, in 2011. Another Japanese auto parts supplier pled guilty Tuesday in a far reaching US probe into price fixing in ...
View ArticleToru Hashimoto and the Japanese election
Yet few people outside of the Osaka area have a sense of this new party or its leader, Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto. The Osaka Restoration Association, led by Hashimoto, is a major force in Osaka. It ...
View ArticleSoccer Kagawa out of Oman qualifier
Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa has been ruled out of Japan's World Cup qualifier in Oman on November 14 due to a knee injury he suffered a week ago, the Japan Football Association ...
View ArticleIndia US and Japan to work on development assistance
India, Japan and the US will explore the possibility of pooling their strengths in the area of development assistance to work together in Africa, Afghanistan and Myanmar, Indian foreign ministry ...
View ArticleJob ratio falls for 1st time in 3 yrs
The seasonally adjusted effective ratio of job openings to job seekers in September fell 0.02 point from the previous month to 0.81, the first decline since July 2009, the Health, Labor and Welfare ...
View ArticleJapan auto parts firm Tokai Rika to pay U.S. price fixing fine
Japanese auto parts maker Tokai Rika Co Ltd has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix the prices of auto heating components and to pay a fine of $17.7 million, the U.S. Justice Department said ...
View ArticleNo end in sight for upper house gridlock
Noda delivered his policy speech only in the House of Representatives. The opposition refused to let the prime minister deliver his speech in the opposition-controlled House of Councillors, where a ...
View ArticleMan headed to Japan from SFO busted for ingesting cocaine
A man headed to Japan was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport last week after customs agents spotted that he had ingested 100 cocaine-filled ...
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