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Summer time a hard sell in Japan
In the land of the rising sun, no one can seem to agree on when it does. Rise, that is.
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Remarks With Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith
SECRETARY RICE: All right. Well, welcome. And I'm really delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, my great colleague from Australia.
Remarks With Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith
SECRETARY RICE: All right. Well, welcome. And I'm really delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, my great colleague from Australia.
The Peace Memorial Ceremony is held on August 6th in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima.
CARCASS: New Japan, Colombia Dates Announced
Reactivated British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS have added the following dates to their current itinerary: Oct.
Before we get to the grand finale and epilogue, a few random observations that I never really managed to shoehorn in anywhere else: - Japan still has coin-operated left-luggage lockers, everywhere .
Ceremony marks beginning of 'Tokyo Sky Tree' construction
Tobu Railway Co. and others concerned held a ceremony Monday to mark the beginning of construction work on the 610-meter ''Tokyo Sky Tree'' to be completed in Tokyo's Sumida Ward in the spring of 2012.
Japanese immersion students and their families tell of two weeks in foreign land.
British ambassador to Japan issues call to action on climate change at high-profile LRQA forum
The British Ambassador to Japan, Sir Graham Fry, has urged governments, business and private citizens to take immediate steps to combat global warming at a high-level forum on climate change hosted by Lloyd's ...
Report: Japan's Matsushita to build new lithium-ion battery plant to meet soaring demand
TOKYO : Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. plans to build a new lithium-ion battery plant in western Japan, a move that will triple its current output capacity to meet soaring global demand, the daily Yomiuri ...
Osaka Pref. lawmakers agree to pay cut
Members of the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito reached an agreement Wednesday in the Osaka prefectural assembly to cut assembly members' salaries by 15 percent, and policy research expenses provided to ...
Sedaris fired up in sixth volume of memoirs
Shopping for skeletons, posting pictures of terrorists in a window to shoo away birds, and trying to quit smoking in Japan - looks like snapshots from a Benadryl-induced dream.
Eco-Tourism in Japan by greenz.jp, Tokyo, Japan on 07.11.08 Ecotourism or green tourism started getting attention in Japan about 15 years ago, and if you carbon offset your airticket you could probably spend a ...
Soccer: Japan to face Uruguay in World Cup q'fier warm-up
Japan will play Uruguay next month in a warm-up for their World Cup qualifier against Bahrain, the Japan Football Association said Friday.
Nissan charged up on electric cars
Masahiko Ohtsuka, president of Automotive Energy Supply Corp., a joint venture between Nissan Motor Co.
Japan's 10 Most Popular Tourist Attractions
Chana R. Schoenberger , When foreigners go to Japan, Tokyo tops their list of places to see.
G-8 leaders face rising expectations at summit
The world's top industrialized nations begin their annual summit Monday confronted with demands they reinvigorate the world economy, push ahead languishing climate change talks and make good on pledges to ...
G8 leaders arriving in Japan for summit
Climate change, soaring oil prices and possible steps against Zimbabwe were high on the agenda as leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers gathered in Japan for their annual summit.
Japan holds 20 anti-G8 Koreans at airport: activists
Twenty South Korean activist farmers have been detained by Japanese immigration for over 19 hours and expect to be deported, a spokesman for the group said, in further signs of growing security jitters from the ...
Koyasan meditations, a Japan travel story
Startled awake by lurking footsteps delicately approaching my room, I sprang upright in the plush down bedding.