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Japan's environment and nuclear minister visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant on Saturday to inspect a spent fuel pool at the center of safety concerns and said it appeared to have been properly reinforced.
Toyota is looking to emerging markets for growth, targeting 50 percent of its global vehicle sales in such countries by 2015, and rolling out eight compact models over the next few years.
A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, but no tsunami is expected.
A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former reactor workers who have died since the catastrophe perished due to the effects of radiation.
Mazda Motor Corp. and Fiat SpA are working together on developing and manufacturing a roadster, or two-seater convertible, although the automakers will come up with different, distinctly styled models.
The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday.
A rocket has lifted off in Japan in the country's first commercial launch of a foreign satellite — one from South Korea designed to monitor the environment.
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda took the helm at Japan's auto industry group Thursday with a promise to keep production and jobs at home to help along the country's recovery from last year's disaster.
Japan's economy grew an at annual rate of 4.1 percent in the first quarter amid a gradual recovery from last year's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.
Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs — a key change being played out across Japan, a world leader in robotics.
Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Hold On I'm Coming" and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," died Sunday at 70.
Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.
Panasonic's January-March losses ballooned 10-fold to 438 billion yen ($5 billion), completing a year of record red ink at the Japanese electronics maker battered by natural disasters and an ailing TV business.
Nissan Motor Co.'s January-March profit more than doubled to 75.3 billion yen ($941 million) as the Japanese automaker achieved record sales despite production disruptions from last year's tsunami.
Sony Corp. racked up a record annual loss of 457 billion yen ($5.7 billion) in its fourth straight year of red ink as the once-glorious maker of the Walkman and PlayStation struggles toward a turnaround under a new president.
Hawaiian Airlines plans to start flying to Sapporo, its fourth destination in Japan.
Prosecuting lawyers on Wednesday appealed a lower court acquittal of Japanese political power broker Ichiro Ozawa in a funding scandal.
Toyota's quarterly profit more than quadrupled to 121 billion yen ($1.5 billion), and the automaker gave upbeat forecasts as it recovers from a sales plunge caused by the tsunami in Japan last year.
It looks just like iRobot's Roomba vacuuming machine, except the new circular roaming vacuum cleaner from Sharp Corp. is trilingual, and even knows a hip humorous dialect.
A tornado tore through a city northeast of Japan's capital on Sunday, killing one person, injuring dozens of others and destroying scores of houses.
Loophole in Japanese Law Results in Marijuana Sold from Vending MachinesLast week police in Kanagawa, near Yokohama, raided a general store for selling "herbs containing cannabis-like ingredients" reports the Japan Times. The shop's owners weren't dealing drugs from behind the counter, but instead took advantage of a legal loophole allowing them to …
New Zealand hopes to end whaling deadlockJapan's Fisheries Agency said it killed 266 minke whales on its latest Antarctic expedition, far below its target of around 900. The militant U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society routinely harasses the Japanese fleet to hinder the hunt. McCully hoped that Japan would e …
Nuclear disaster spreads to houses, foodmeans of current and continuous contamination throughout Japan (video)
AWOL penguin #337 captured alive and well"We're relieved to see the penguin come back alive," said Kazuhiro Sakamoto, vice head of the aquarium, according to Kyodo.
World's tallest tower, Tokyo Skytree, opensApproximately twice the height of the Eiffel Tower, the 634-meter, ¥65 billion (US$806 million) Tokyo Skytree opened to the public on Tuesday. Tickets to climb the Tokyo Skytree are hard to come by -- individual tickets are sold out through mid-July, leaving v …
US nuclear chief resigns after safety spatby Staff WritersWashington (AFP) May 21, 2012 The head of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced his resignation Monday, just months after a public spat with colleagues over the need for proof of safety in the wake of Japan …
The Pacific Ocean Is Dying: Special Report On Fukushima Nuclear CatastropheJust prior to the Supermoon of March 18th, 2011, the world witnessed a natural and manmade disaster of epic proportions. What transpired off the coast of Honshu Island, Japan on March 11 has forever altered the planet and irremediably affected the global environment. & …
Fukushima Reactor 4 massive global risk Fukishima nuclear plant was so much in the news for an extended period of time that we have been " filing " the occasional news release that crosses our consciousness in some hidden area of our minds. We do this, each at our own, and our families...peril. And, we and our politi …
New Jersey town's monument to Korean sex slaves upsetting Japanese officials Japanese officials are asking a small northern New Jersey town with a large Korean immigrant population to remove a public monument dedicated to women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
US think-tank: China/Phillipine spat to get worseUS think-tank warns China spat to worsen by Rodney Jaleco, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau Posted at 05/18/2012 8:37 AM | Updated as of 05/18/2012 11:49 AM WASHINGTON D.C. - China's growing belligerence in disputed waters of the South China Sea will only grow a …
Nine dragons stir up the South China Sea - FT.comFor the last few years China has become increasingly aggressive in attempting to control almost the whole of the Phillipine Sea aka South China Sea ( and Viet Nam and Brunei and other countries with a stake may have other names ). That makes for a lot of neighbors fussed up at C …
Facebook is as pleasurable as food or sex: study"Just as monkeys are willing to forgo juice rewards to view dominant groupmates and college students are willing to give up money to view attractive members of the opposite sex, our participants were willing to forgo money to think and talk about themselves," the researchers …
Scientists Turn to Alaska Over Fears Massive Fault Line Could Cause, Japanese Type Tsunami and Deaths in California and HawaiiScientists say a fault-line running across Alaska could cause tsunamis of the same magnitude as the Japanese disaster of March last year. Attention has turned to the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, a region where one of the earth's tectonic plate, carrying the Pacific Ocean, …
Japan assembly agrees to restart reactors, hurdles remainThe local assembly in a Japanese town that hosts a nuclear plant agreed on Monday it was necessary to restart two off-line reactors, its chairman said, the first such nod since all the country's stations were halted after the Fukushima crisis. But further discussion li …
Kim Jong-un's grandfather 'was Japanese collaborator' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). by North Asia correspondent, Mark Willacy. Updated May 11, 2012 10:30:04New documents unearthed in Tokyo reveal that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's maternal grandfather worked for the Japanese military, sparking claims that the reclusive state's leader is the descendant of a traitor. Japanese human rights activist and researcher Ken Kato says t …
Japan faces 'extinction' in 1,000 years, researchers say"If the rate of decline continues, we will be able to celebrate the Children's Day public holiday on May 5, 3011 as there will be one child," said Hiroshi Yoshida, an economics professor at Tohoku University.
Trust the Japanese to solve the worlds global warming issues. Motivated by government warnings not to rely on air conditioning, one of their genius underwear companies has designed one mint julep of a bra.The bra has built-in ice packs,a mini-fan and also in …
Iced bra aims to keep Japanese coolA bra with built-in ice packs, a wind chime and a sprig of mint has been unveiled in Japan, promising to keep women cool this summer.
10 weirdest global fast foods - Pork and seaweed doughnut (Dunkin' Donuts China) Here in the US, fast food can get pretty predictable: Burgers, fries, chicken, and a taco or a fish sandwich – if you’re feeling adventurous. Leave it to our international brethren to show us how to loosen up and live a little. Take a look at ten wacky fast fo …
Yomiuri Newspaper reports on May 5 that Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency is ready to request game providers to stop the so-called "comp-gacha" type mobile social games. "Comp-gacha" is made of two parts. One is "card game of completing a set". You will get a rare card …
Power politics in Japan: A silent majority speaks | The EconomistFOR decades few countries were more evangelical about the charms of nuclear power than Japan, and until the earthquake and tsunami in March last year nuclear plants generated almost 30% of its electricity. Yet by May 5th at the latest, the last of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactor …
Tsunami survivor claims Harley-Davidson found in CanadaThe owner has been found of a Harley-Davidson that drifted to Canada after being swept out to sea in the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Details from the motorcycle's licence plate helped to locate Ikuo Yokoyama. According to CBC News, Mr Yokoyama lost his home and three family member …
Stray parakeet tells Japanese police where he livesA pet parakeet was returned to its owner Wednesday after the lost bird told police its home address near Tokyo. The male bird had escaped early Sunday morning from its owner’s home in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, and remained at large before p …
Motorcycle washed up in BC may be Japanese tsunami debrisA beachcomber on British Columbia's Haida Gwaii islands has discovered what may be the first piece of debris from the Japanese tsunami to arrive in Canada. Peter Mark was riding his ATV, exploring an isolated beach on Graham Island on April 18, when he made a spectacular find. …
Prison Planet.com ยป Fukushima Reactor 4: Life On Planet Earth in the Balance“It is important for the public to understand that reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet,” he concluded. Matsumura admits this is …
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