As technology shifts, Asian giants wrestle for TV control
LG Electronics will steal a march on its rivals by bringing forward the launch of a 55-inch flat TV using next-generation technology, raising the stakes in a cut-throat battle for the living room...
View ArticleGame firms cap teen spending
Major social networking game operators Gree Inc. and DeNA Co. have decided to limit young users' monthly spending on their game content at ¥10,000, sources said Tuesday. They made the decisions in...
View ArticleTeen doing 50 kph when he hit victims
The unlicensed teen who drove a minivehicle into a line of schoolchildren Monday in the city of Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, leaving two dead and injuring eight others, accelerated to about 50 kph just...
View ArticleFirm evaded taxes on singer's goods
Tokyo tax authorities have accused a company president of evading taxes totaling ¥48 million by inflating costs for making T-shirts and other goods featuring female pop singer Aiko, sources said...
View ArticleShielding kids from parental abuse
A revised civil law came into force on April 1 with a provision for suspending parental prerogatives for up to two years to protect children from parental violence or neglect. The revised civil law...
View ArticleNissan sees yen as '1,000-pound gorilla' curbing sales
Nissan Motor Co. said sales at Japan's second-biggest automaker may reach 10 trillion yen ($123 billion) this year depending on the strength of a currency Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn compared...
View ArticleJapan fears nuclear plant sits atop active geological fault
A nuclear plant in northwestern Japan may be sitting right on top of an active geological fault, the country's nuclear watchdog has said, raising the risk that the facility may never resume power...
View ArticleJapan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster
Japanese astronomers said Wednesday they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered. Using a powerful...
View ArticleAnti-TPP campaign befuddles Washington
Japan's agricultural lobby has taken its campaign against a global free trade agreement to the U.S., buying a full-page advertisement in Tuesday's Washington Post opposing the Trans-Pacific...
View ArticleJapan's 'Shadow Shogun' to hear trial verdict
One of the biggest figures in Japan's political scene is set to hear his fate on Thursday when a court delivers its verdict on a years-old funding scandal. Prosecutors have demanded Ichiro Ozawa, once...
View ArticleJapan fears nuclear plant sits atop active geological fault
A nuclear plant in northwestern Japan may be sitting right on top of an active geological fault, the country's nuclear watchdog has said, raising the risk that the facility may never resume power...
View ArticleFacial soap's surprise wheat ingredient triggers allergies
A class-action lawsuit over a bar of facial soap in Japan is making some there question the meaning of "all natural." The soap that has gone on trial this month is Cha no Shizuku, roughly translated as...
View ArticleThousands in Japan protest Asia Pacific trade pact
Thousands of farmers rallied in Tokyo on Wednesday against an Pacific-wide free trade pact as Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's prepares for a visit to the United States. Noda had reportedly been looking...
View ArticleStocks bounce back on overseas rally
Stocks rebounded in Tokyo on Wednesday, buoyed by overnight rallies in U.S. and European equities and the yen's fall. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed up 92.97 points, or 0.98 percent, at 9,561.01....
View ArticlePrivate univs coy on fall enrollment
More than 70 percent of private universities and colleges are taking a wait-and-see approach to whether to change undergraduate enrollment from spring to autumn, according to a survey. (Yomiuri)
View ArticleDog 'can detect cancer with high accuracy levels'
A 10-year-old Labrador retriever has been trained to detect gynecological cancer such as uterine cancer with a high level of accuracy. Marine, a female, was trained in Minami-Boso, Chiba Prefecture,...
View ArticleShibuya revitalization kicks off with Hikarie opening
The high-rise Shibuya Hikarie shopping and entertainment complex next to Shibuya Station opens Thursday, kicking off projects to revitalize the area known as a teen fashion mecca. The 34-floor glass...
View ArticleNikkei ends flat as earnings disappoint
Japan's Nikkei share average ended flat on Thursday after dipping in and out of negative territory as a sluggish start to earnings season and wariness ahead of a Bank of Japan meeting dampened...
View ArticleSony sends 15 million songs to cloud to close iTunes gap
Sony Corp. will probably put songs by Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston online in Japan through its streaming music service. The trouble will be finding listeners who haven't bought them from Apple...
View ArticleWife, ex-husband found dead in Ibaraki in suspected murder-suicide
A woman and her former husband were found slashed to death in a store parking lot in Ibaraki Prefecture on April 25 in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Police received an emergency call from a...
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