National › ANA reports different problem on modified Dreamliner
Source: Japan Today
Chitose :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 20:25:32 -0700 | travel-news
ANA reports different problem on modified Dreamliner Workers check the batteries of an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Haneda airport. All Nippon Airways on Friday said a modified Dreamliner had experienced a fault earlier this month, but insisted...
Politics › Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan
Source: Japan Today
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 14:49:14 -0700 | travel-news
A senior Chinese military officer has said the Ryukyu Islandswhich include Okinawa and its U.S. military basesdo not belong to Japan, as a territorial row mounts between the Asian powers. The comments by People's Liberation Army Major General Luo Yuan...
National › Six Russians missing after fire on ship in Japan
Source: Japan Today
Wakkanai :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 02:51:00 -0700 | travel-news
Six Russian crew members were missing Thursday after a fire broke out aboard a cargo ship anchored in a Japanese port, the coastguard said. Fire took hold of the 497-ton Cambodian-registered freighter, Taigan, which has been in the port of...
Japanese Mayor Defends Sex Slavery
Source: Truthdig
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-05-14 06:54:01 -0700 | travel-news
May 13, 2013 It turns out America hasn't cornered the market on reprehensible politicians. The mayor of Osaka, Japan's third-largest city, just said the 200,000 female slaves who were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II were part...
Mapping the legacy of the Great War on home soil
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-13 11:52:34 -0700 | travel-news
In the popular imagination, it is a conflict associated with foreign battlefields and, above all, the muddy trenches of the Western Front. But a major new project aims to identify and record thousands of remaining traces of the First World...
Egypt: Islamist president Morsi to meet Palestinian leader Abbas
Source: AKI
Aki :: Japan | updated 2013-05-13 16:10:18 -0700 | travel-news
Islamist president Mohamed Morsi will meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday for talks on Egypt's role in a reconciliation deal between Palestinian rival factions Fatah and Hamas, Ahram Online reports. The formation of a transitional government, elections, security,...
Business › Outlander recognized as 2012's top safety performer among new passenger vehicles in ...
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-12 20:39:49 -0700 | travel-news
First Prize, cementing the SUV as a leader in automobile safety...First Prize is given to an automobile that achieves the highest ever score...The Outlander received the maximum five-star rating for achieving the highest level of safety for vehicle occupants as...
American Civil War Wax Museum up for sale
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-12 12:03:45 -0700 | travel-news
After 51 years educating and entertaining Gettysburg visitors, the American Civil War Wax Museum is up for sale. "The owners are looking to retire," said Tammy Myers, general manager of the museum. It has always been a family business and...
Is missile defense useful?
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-12 09:28:44 -0700 | travel-news
Japan's missile defense system invariably draws much attention every time a firing of a ballistic missile by North Korea appears imminent. The news media in this country have lately carried a wide variety of reports on whether that system would...
Check Out Adrien Brody In 'Back To 1942,' On DVD & Blu-ray May 14
Source: Starpulse
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-12 03:34:45 -0700 | travel-news
In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it...
Anti-terror drill held at Japan's crippled Fukushima reactor
Source: United Press International
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2013-05-11 11:49:10 -0700 | travel-news
About 150 people participated in drills Saturday aimed at protecting Japan's crippled Fukushima No...The Coast Guard and a special police assault team were among the agencies involved, Kyodo News reported...Officials say its condition could make it an inviting target for...
National › Woman hit by bullet train at Sendai station
Source: Japan Today
Sendai :: Japan | updated 2013-05-10 23:31:33 -0700 | travel-news
A woman was hit and seriously injured by a bullet train as it arrived at Sendai Station on Friday afternoon. The woman, who is in her 20s, was hit by the front of the train as it arrived at the...
World War II Marine to receive medal during ceremony
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 14:01:32 -0700 | travel-news
A Marine who served in Asia during World War II will be presented the China War Memorial Medal on Saturday during a ceremony at Fort Benning...Lett, 92, will be presented the medal during an 11 a.m. ceremony at the U.S...Military...
Virtual Irish history newspaper goes live
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 07:26:54 -0700 | travel-news
A virtual newspaper bringing the most momentous period of Irish history to life has gone live. Ten years of news from 1913 will be published by Century Ireland every fortnight over the next decade in real-time. Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for...
Japan's ANA will return Boeing Dreamliners to the air starting June 1
Source: Reuters
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 10:52:09 -0700 | travel-news
Topics Employees of All Nippon Airways (ANA) queue in front of the company's Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane after its test flight at Haneda airport in Tokyo April 28, 2013. Japan's All Nippon Airways ( 9202.T ) (ANA) said on Thursday...
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