'Invisible enemy' stalks Fukushima
Yoshiko Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects, she warns her daughters: Never have children. This is life with radiation, nearly one year after a...
View ArticleTepco president renews apology
On the first anniversary of the start of the nuclear crisis, Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa once again offered an apology and vowed every effort to keep the Fukushima No. 1 plant...
View ArticleAntinuke protests erupt nationwide
Thousands of antinuclear protesters took to the streets of Tokyo and other cities Sunday, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1...
View ArticleAn uphill struggle for food exporters
For many people around the world, food from Japan used to have an image of being among the healthiest around, let alone safe to consume. That changed after March 11, 2011, when the massive earthquake...
View ArticleU.K., Aussie leaders offer praise, encouragement
The leaders of Britain and Australia offered words of praise and encouragement to Japan as the country on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck its...
View ArticleJapan property tycoon Minoru Mori dies at 77
Property tycoon Minoru Mori, who was one of Japan's most influential developers and built China's tallest building, has died. Company officials said Monday that Mori, chairman of Mori Building Co.,...
View ArticleJapanese school baseball team a symbol of recovery
One year after their lives were torn apart by the devastating earthquake and tsunami, players from Ishinomaki Technical High School are ready to compete on one of the biggest stages in Japanese...
View ArticleJapan, Mongolia to launch FTA talks
Japan and Mongolia are expected to agree to launch negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement when their leaders meet Monday, as the two countries mark this year the 40th anniversary of the...
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Rethinking, not just rebuilding, Japan's northeast
Harsh winds and waves lash Minamisanriku's sparsely settled coastline. Far from Tokyo's neon-lit cityscapes and Kyoto's serene gardens, this is a part of Japan you seldom hear about. It has an older...
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One man stays to tend animals left in the radioactive zone
There is only one human left living in the silent radioactive zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant: a 53-year-old farmer who stayed to care for the animals abandoned there. Naoto Matsumura has spent...
View ArticleJapan PCs may be linked to crime / Illegally exported computers possibly used...
A Tokyo-based secondhand computer dealer illegally exported 1,800 personal computers and liquid-crystal displays to a Pyongyang organization which may have been involved in cyber-attacks against South...
View ArticleTurns out Siri isn't fluent in Japanese
Apple has the personal assistant Siri. DoCoMo, a major mobile service provider in Japan, has the Syabette Concier. With the Japanese version of Siri being recently introduced, one man on YouTube tested...
View ArticleJapan's stocks in favour thanks to weaker currency
One year after the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami and disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant, it seems investors are taking a liking to Japanese shares, pushing the benchmark Nikkei 225 Index...
View Article3 Japanese automakers and the aftermath of the earthquake
A year ago, the world was just realizing the devastation that the March 11 earthquake had caused along the east coast of Japan. After weeks and months unfolded, it became starkly clear that the...
View ArticleJapanese prime minister apologizes for snub of Taiwan
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Monday he was sorry when asked why a Taiwanese representative was not called to present flowers at a ceremony a day earlier marking the first anniversary of...
View ArticleOzawa portrait hung at Diet with other old-timers
A portrait of former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa, who is on trial for allegedly breaking the political funds law, was displayed in the Diet on Monday. According to the Lower House,...
View ArticleSumo: Baruto dismisses Yoshikaze with ease
The only thing Baruto's would-be opponent was missing was a pacifier and some strap-on diapers. Estonia-born ozeki Baruto heaved out Yoshikaze in what amounted to child's play Monday, continuing his...
View ArticleMan arrested after bodies of wife, son found in car trunk
Police in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, have arrested a man on suspicion of killing his wife and son and dumping their bodies in the trunk of a car. According to police, the man, who has been named as...
View ArticleMom who starved her kids faces life
Prosecutors demanded a life prison sentence Monday for a 24-year-old woman accused of killing her children by leaving them unattended at her apartment in Osaka in 2010. In their closing argument at the...
View ArticleProsecutors seek noose for alleged triple boyfriend killer
Prosecutors demanded the death penalty Monday for a woman charged with killing three ex-boyfriends in 2009 and disguising their deaths as carbon monoxide poisonings. In their closing arguments at the...
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