Japan
- Moderate earthquake jolts Japan
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:55:59
AP - A moderately strong earthquake shook Tokyo and its environs on Saturday, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, officials said. - Quake jolts Tokyo
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:28:24
AFP - A 5.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Tokyo Saturday but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, the Meteorological Agency said.
- Earthquake hits north of Tokyo, no damage reported
(Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:13:43
Reuters - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 shook northern Japan on Saturday, a Japanese government agency said, but there were no immediate reports of damage. - Japan gives $50 million to food crisis
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:52:02
AP - Japan announced Friday it will provide $50 million in new emergency food aid to help developing countries cope with the impact of soaring food prices.
- Japan pledges extra 50 mln dlrs in food aid before G8
(AFP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:07:21
AFP - Japan announced Friday it would contribute a fresh 50 million dollars in aid to developing countries over the next three months to help them cope with soaring food prices.
- Japan ready to spare humpbacks for another year: official
(AFP)
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:43:33
AFP - Japan is ready to spare humpback whales from its Antarctic hunt for another year if international whaling talks make progress, a senior Japanese official said Wednesday.
- Japanese officers punished for planting drugs
(AP)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:56:16
AP - Tokyo Customs punished three of its officers Monday for secretly slipping drugs into travelers’ luggage more than 160 times at Japan’s main international airport to train drug-sniffing dogs, an official said. - Japan to send military mission to Sudan to help UN
(AP)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:28:35
AP - Japan will send military personnel to Sudan to join U.N. peacekeeping operations in the country’s first military dispatch to the African nation, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday. - Japanese man drives car into city hall
(AP)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:46:43
AP - A man angered by a western Japanese city’s welfare policy rammed a car loaded with gas canisters and kerosene into city hall Monday, injuring two workers, police said.
- G8 leaders to set up task force on food crisis: report
(AFP)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:50:14
AFP - Leaders from the Group of Eight industrial powers will agree to establish a task force at their summit next month to tackle the world food crisis, a report said on Monday.
- G-8 protestors clash with police in Tokyo
(AP)
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:17:02
AP - Protesters clashed with police in Tokyo Sunday during demonstrations against an upcoming summit of leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations.
- G8 foreign ministers focus on North Korea
(AP)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:58:23
AP - Foreign ministers from wealthy nations welcomed North Korea’s long-awaited declaration of its nuclear capabilities but warned Friday there remains a long way to go before the isolated Stalinist state can rejoin the international community.
- G-8 ministers condemn Zimbabwe authorities
(AP)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:27:42
AP - Group of Eight foreign ministers are condemning Zimbabwe’s one-candidate presidential runoff, saying authorities there have made a free and fair election impossible.
- Tony Blair urges action on climate change
(AP)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:20:40
AP - The world already knows that global warming is a serious problem and the time has come for politicians and experts to come together to map out a practical solution, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday.
- Master Japanese drummer Oguchi dies
(AP)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:28:22
AP - Master Japanese drummer Daihachi Oguchi, who led the spread of the art of “taiko” drumming to the U.S. and throughout Japan, has died after being hit by a car, an official at his ensemble said. He was 84.
- Japan firm scraps ad after racial controversy
(Reuters)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:57:08
Reuters - A Japanese mobile phone firm has halted
an advertisement depicting a monkey as a political candidate
after bloggers said the commercial was a racial slur against
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
- Nikkei falls to 2-month low, exporters sold
(Reuters)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:42:06
Reuters - Japan’s Nikkei stock average was down 2.2
percent on Friday after earlier hitting a two-month low, led
down by blue-chip exporters such as Honda Motor Co on a
stronger yen, record oil prices and steep losses on Wall
Street.
- Man arrested for slashing policeman in Tokyo
(AP)
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:13:28
AP - Police arrested a man for allegedly slashing a policeman with a knife Thursday in the same Tokyo neighborhood where a stabbing spree left seven people dead and 10 wounded earlier this month, a police spokesman said.
- Japanese athletes begin chopstick-less “food camp”
(Reuters)
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:03:05
Reuters - Japanese athletes have begun a spartan,
chopstick-free Chinese food training program to help them
acclimatize for this year’s Beijing Olympics.
- Japan court orders compensation for neighbours of US base
(AFP)
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:36:11
AFP - A Japanese court on Thursday ordered the government to compensate local residents for noise pollution from a US air base on the southern island of Okinawa.
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