Japan's silver age spenders mean gold for business
At first sight, it resembles any other inner-city gym. Members clad in bright sportswear are working up a sweat at a string of exercise machines beneath neon lights as a blaring soundtrack plays the...
View ArticleAKB48 thanks China for 3/11 aid with Beijing concert
Six members of pop idol group AKB48 staged a special show in Beijing to thank the Chinese public for its support after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The members of the all-girl group performed...
View ArticleBaseball: Murata shines in Giants debut
New Yomiuri Giants third baseman Shuichi Murata impressed in the first preseason game of 2012, going 3-for-3 with a homer and two RBIs in an 8-3 Saturday loss to the Hiroshima Carp. The two-time...
View ArticleMongol shipwreck to be first historical seabed site
The sea floor off Nagasaki Prefecture should be designated as a national historical site because of the wreck of a ship thought to have been used by 13th-century Mongol invaders, the Cultural Affairs...
View ArticleMan charged with attempted murder during convenience store robbery
A 28-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a convenience store robbery in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, in which the store's manager was stabbed, police said Saturday. According to...
View ArticleJapanese nuclear experts sought by Korea
South Korean government officials have been targeting TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) officials, in an attempt to persuade them to move to South Korea. Two executive engineers were approached late...
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'Hayabusa 2′ readies for blast off
Hayabusa 2 is being ready to fly, and if everything goes right, it will blast off in 2014 to collect cosmic material from asteroid 1999 JU3. The original Hayabusa garnered worldwide attention after the...
View ArticleWoman from Japan on Hawaii honeymoon dies in crash
Authorities say a woman from Japan who was on her honeymoon in Hawaii is dead and her husband hospitalized after the couple crashed the motorcycle they were riding. The couple's rented motorcycle...
View ArticleAccused killer got $1.5m from elderly man
A woman on trial for allegedly murdering three men and faking their suicides has testified that she received nearly 100 million yen (S$1.5 million) from an elderly man she had known. Kanae Kijima, 37,...
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Baseball: Ichiro heads into final year of deal with Mariners
No one really knows when Ichiro Suzuki will retire. The 38-year-old outfielder is heading into the final year of his contract with Seattle and isn't discussing a new deal. There he was on Saturday,...
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The aftershocks still hitting Japan
Wrapped in a beige blanket and surrounded by sea-soaked debris, broken homes and smashed cars, Yuko Sugimoto had only one thing on her mind: how to find her four-year-old son. She had not seen him for...
View ArticleA trip to southern Japan, where the ancient weaves through the modern
Our gondola car crested a mountaintop and - suddenly - Mount Fuji appeared before us. We let out an involuntary "aah" as the car swung over a deep valley. After staring at the snow-topped Fuji, Japan's...
View ArticleShore shapes made tsunami deadlier: study
The shape of the coastlines along Kamaishi Bay, Ishinomaki Bay and four other areas in Tohoku may have amplified the power of the tsunami that struck there last March, a study by tsunami researchers...
View ArticleU.S. nuclear plants similar to Fukushima spark concerns
As the United States prepares to build its first new nuclear power reactors in three decades, concerns about an early generation of plants have resurfaced since last year's disaster in Japan. The...
View ArticleToyo Keizai chief accused of groping
The editor-in-chief of the major economic magazine Weekly Toyo Keizai has been arrested for allegedly groping two women on a train, according to the police. The police said on Saturday that Naoyuki...
View ArticleJapan and China agree to work together on IMF funding requests
Japan and China agreed to coordinate their response to any request from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for additional funding help to combat Europe's debt crisis, underscoring the close...
View ArticleJapan logs record trade deficit in Jan
Japan posted its biggest ever trade deficit in January, topping the previous record seen during the financial crisis in 2009, Ministy of Finance data showed On Monday, underlining concerns that a...
View ArticleJapan prosecutors may charge Olympus over scandal
Japanese prosecutors are considering indicting Olympus Corp as a company for falsifying its financial reports to conceal huge investment losses in a $1.7 billion scandal, Kyodo news agency reported on...
View ArticleSome like it hotter
One of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly, Kyushu was, until recently, somewhat overlooked as a tourist destination, a Cinderella to the more obvious attractions of the main island of...
View ArticleJapanese scientists found protein helps body burn fat
A team of researchers of Japan's Kyoto University has found a protein that helps the body burn fat following an intake of fatty meals, according to China's Xinhua news agency citing Japanese public...
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