Chiba, Japan News

CHIBA A Swiss woman who was detained by Japanese authorities for seven months after being acquitted of a drug charge expressed anger over the Japanese legal system in a recent written message to Kyodo News.

The Tokyo Game Show saw an 8 percent drop in attendance on Thursday, the first day of the four-day long show, organizers said Friday.

By Tomoko Hosaka Tokyo - Watching Japanese stocks nose-dive one after another yesterday, Yasunori Matsubara decided worrying was futile.

CHIBA, Japan - Japan's Sony Corp said on Thursday it will launch PlayStation 3 game consoles with an 80 gigabyte hard disk drive, bigger than previous models, in Japan at the end of October for 39,980 yen .That ...

A moderate quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 jolted Japan's Kanto region, said the Japan Meteorological Agency Wednesday.

Singapore's Parkway Trust Management Ltd. said Monday it has acquired seven Japanese nursing-care homes for a total of some 7.8 billion yen.

Under clouds frequently as brooding and relentless as those currently dominating the world's economic climate, the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo's Chiba Prefecture has played host this week to the annual CEATEC Japan ...

Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul _ even pandas. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a nutritional ...

NEW YORK Japan's Jiji Press reports today that the country's two biggest newspaper publishers, Asahi Shimbun Co.

Intel's next-generation WiMax module, called Evans Peak, is on display at this week's Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan.

Panasonic showed off a prototype remote control on Tuesday that's designed for future IPTV services and uses twin trackpads instead of a keypad for user input.

Toshiba showed off its 256GB SSD at the Ceatec exhibition in Japan. Sumner Lemon, Macworld edit Toshiba will ship a 256GB solid-state drive for laptops next month, likely beating rival Samsung Electronics to ...

A brain-controlled video game is expected to hit the Japanese market as early as 2009, officials of U.S. technology venture firm NeuroSky Inc.

New transport minister Nariaki Nakayama on Friday apologized for his controversial remarks that included calling Japan ''ethnically homogenous,'' in the face of criticism lobbed at him not only by opposition ...

A unicycling robot, prototype fuel cells and a TV that doesn't need a stand are just some of what visitors to next week's Ceatec electronics fair in Japan will find when the doors open on Tuesday morning.

Fried egg rolls containing starch made from tainted rice were served in 90,000 school lunches in Chiba Prefecture and the city of Nagano, it has been learned.

A 5-year-old girl found lying unconscious on a street in Togane, Chiba Prefecture, on Sunday, likely died as a result of suffocation by having her nose and mouth covered, the police said Monday after an initial ...

A little girl was found naked and lying on a street in Togane, Chiba Prefecture, on Sunday afternoon and was later confirmed dead after being taken to a hospital, police said.

From an early age, Japanese culture fascinated Ryan Foster. When he was in fourth grade, Foster's teacher at Grass Valley Charter School told stories from when she lived in Japan.

Based in New York, Danish-born jazz singer Annekei made her professional recording debut in 2006 on a Japanese label.