Sapporo, Japan News

Berkman Center for Internet & Society / Harvard University The Free Culture 2009 research workshop builds on the enthusiasm generated by the First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture which took place during the 2008 iSummit in Sapporo, Japan.

A two-day job fair in Tokyo for bilingual Japanese and foreign students is seeing a sharp drop in participating employers this year amid the nation's worst postwar recession, the organizer said Tuesday.

Tel: +81-11-706-3590, Fax: +81-11-706-3588, E-mail: takiya{at}rmg.hokudai.ac.jp Received January 31, 2009; Accepted March 6, 2009 Abstract The STPR domain is a novel DNA-binding domain composed of repeats of 23 amino-acid-long peptide found in the fibroin-modulator-binding protein-1 of the silkworm Bombyx mori .

Another bid-rigging case involving officials at the Construction and Transport Ministry has bubbled to the surface.

The nation's fair trade watchdog has yet again accused land ministry bureaucrats of underhand behavior, this time with regard to fixing bids among operators of fleets of cars for official use.

At least two senior officials of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry's Zennorin labor union were concurrently serving as executives of the National Federation of Workers and Consumers Insurance Cooperatives, known as Zenrosai, and were paid for their services, it has been learned.

SAPPORO Milk produced in Hokkaido is becoming increasingly popular around Asia, with exports to the region hitting an all-time high and more than doubling to 798 tons in fiscal 2008 from the year before.

The objective of this IBMA RedbooksA publication is to demonstrate ways of enabling existing applications and data on z/OSA for integration into a service-oriented architecture .

Police arrested a medical doctor here Thursday on suspicion of fraud, saying he issued 12 false diagnosis certificates that allowed recipients to falsely claim disability pensions.

Sapporo, Japan, Mayor Fumio Ueda and Portland Mayor Sam Adams joke around while signing a continuation of the Portland-Sapporo Sister City Agreement, now 50 years old.

A vacant elementary school in Niikappu, Hokkaido, that was put up for sale online has been purchased by an Osaka-based operator of spas and hot springs.

SAPPORO Toyako, the host city for the Group of Eight summit last July, saw a 10 percent drop in tourists in fiscal 2008, it was learned Sunday.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is scheduled to close five representative offices abroad, Minister of Foreign Affairs Francisco Ou said yesterday.

Per Yahoo! Japan , a 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook Northern Japan at 12:30 p.m. local time on Friday.

Chelsea High School graduate Rob Knopper, 22, earned his Bachelor of Music degree on May 22 from The Juilliard School in New York.

The Richmond Orchestra and Chorus Association is presenting its final concert of its 23rd season on Saturday, June 6. "American Sampler" is a tribute to our friends south of the border.

Dean Spicer, will be speaking next week at The 2009 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference on Tuesday, June 2. The attendees of the twelfth IITC conference, located in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, will take in Mr.

Japanese bowl carver Masamichi Nitani, who is an Ainu, will demonstrate his ancient craft as one of the demonstrations of 'Parallel Worlds,' an art exhibit at the Portland Japanese Garden.

A two-bit arithmetic logic unit was successfully fabricated on a GaAs-based regular nanowire network with hexagonal topology.

Three scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton were onboard.