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Golf: Tiger, Ishikawa eliminated early in Match Play
The roar resonated across Dove Mountain from fans packed around the 18th green as Tiger Woods, needing a birdie on the last hole to stay in his match, hit a shot that dropped out of the Arizona sky...
View ArticleYakuza Godfather targeted in Obama crackdown on Japanese organized crime
Japan's yakuza organized-crime groups, having operated openly in their home country for more than a century, are facing tougher treatment by an overseas foe: the U.S. Obama administration. The largest...
View ArticleWhy Japan probably won't have a space elevator by 2050
Japanese construction company Obayashi wants to build an elevator to space - and they want to use carbon nanotubes to get there. The Tokyo-based company plans to use 60,000-miles of the cylindrical...
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Soccer: Japan beat Iceland 3-1 in friendly
The J-League's former top goal scorer Ryoichi Maeda helped Japan beat Iceland 3-1 with an early goal on Friday in a warm-up game for a World Cup qualifier next week. The Asian Cup holders needed only...
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Beyond Fukushima Japan faces deeper nuclear concerns
On a hillside in northern Japan, wind turbines slice through the cold air, mocking efforts at a nearby industrial complex to shore up the future of the demoralised nuclear power industry. The...
View ArticleFun dining at Japan's street food stalls
Japan is famed for its elaborate fine dining, but tough economic times means that street-food culture is flourishing in cities such as Kyoto and Tokyo. Street food has never flourished in Japan. The...
View ArticleNHK prepares 8K image sensor
While Japanese broadcaster NHK demonstrated 8K technology way back in 2008 at CommunicAsia, but only recently developed a smaller and lower-power image sensor for eventual commercialization. Besides...
View ArticleGirl group wants Japan to stop killing itself
Suicide is serious. It's horrible. It's touched me personally as well as many people in Japan, which has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. The ruling political part decided to take action...
View ArticleJapan's Miss Earth 2011 led her people in supporting PH peasants fight vs....
Japan's reigning Miss Earth 2011 has led her people in supporting the opposition of Filipino farmers in Isabela against the bio-ethanol project in Northern Luzon. Peasant leader Diony Yadao of...
View ArticleTokyo governor backs Nanjing massacre denial
Tokyo's outspoken conservative governor Shintaro Ishihara on Friday said he agreed with the mayor of Nagoya's statement that the 1937 'rape' of Nanjing by Japanese troops never happened. Diplomatic...
View ArticleSkepticism grows over scientists quake forecasts
When two University of Tokyo seismologists recently released a study forecasting that a major earthquake would strike the capital and its 13 million inhabitants sometime in the next four years, they...
View ArticleJapan wants to replace TEPCO board
Japan's government wants to replace the entire board of the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in exchange for $12 billion of tax money to resuscitate the firm, a report said Saturday....
View ArticleJapan fears permanent ban on habitation near nuclear plant
Japan on Friday said some areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant that was wrecked last year by a massive tsunami will likely remain permanently off-limits. Measurements taken between...
View ArticleJapanese Americans urged to share internment story
Bill Shishima shares how he joined the Boy Scouts as a 12-year-old behind the barbed wire of a Japanese American internment camp, or how he had to work on a rabbit farm to earn his keep when his...
View ArticleUniqlo opens in Philippines in June
When Uniqlo announced its entry into the Philippines recently at Hotel InterContinental in Makati, Japanese Embassy officials were in full force-and understandably so. The clothing chain is one of...
View ArticleCram-free education lowers math abilities
The recent study by the Mathematical Society of Japan has revealed that Japanese university students can calculate according to standard formulas within a limited time but they cannot explain why they...
View ArticleRefugee requests soar, approvals dip
A record-high 1,867 foreign nationals applied for refugee status last year but only 21 applicants were approved, down from 39 in 2010, the Justice Ministry said. The number of applications filed was...
View ArticleAV stars out to play despite hard times
Since her steamy debut in late 2008, adult-video (AV) actress Kokomi Naruse has starred in hundreds of features, many of which find her playing a young girl desired by older men. But after taking the...
View ArticleWorker at No. 1 nuke plant died from overwork
The death last May of a man who had worked at the Fukushima No. 1 plant after the nuclear crisis erupted in March has been officially attributed to overwork, according to a lawyer representing the...
View Article5 youths ordered to apologize to monkeys, clean pen for throwing fireworks
Five youths have apologized to the director of Kyoto Zoo after admitting to breaking into the premises early one morning in January and throwing fireworks at the zoo's monkeys. As part of their...
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