Japan, India to accelerate joint rare earth development
Source: Kuwait News Business
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-29 18:16:47 -0800 | political-news
Oct 29, 2011 (AFP) -The foreign ministers of Japan and India agreed Saturday at a meeting in Tokyo to accelerate a joint development of rare earth mineral deposits in the South Asian country...Krishna also confirmed they would move forward stalled...
Japanese output and spending dip
Source: BBC
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-28 10:38:04 -0800 | business-news
Japanese factory output and household spending fall Manufacturing is one of the biggest contributors to the Japanese economy Japan's industrial output and household spending fell in September, raising fresh concerns about the health of its economic recovery.
Technology › MHI develops new truck refrigeration unit
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-26 09:26:48 -0800 | business-news
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has developed a truck refrigeration unit which enables simultaneous temperature control of two separate cargo compartments with different temperature settings entirely by heat pump. The unit marks the world's first application of a heat pump for...
Japan cities face growing radioactive ash
Source: Zee News
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-02-08 15:30:44 -0800 | political-news
Further south, the city of Kashiwa has been forced to temporarily shut a high-tech incinerator because its advanced technology that minimises the amount of ash produced has the side-effect of boosting the concentration of radiation. Ohtawara and Kashiwa are just...
Task Force Urges Haste on Nuclear-Safety Measures
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-06 13:08:54 -0800 | political-news
A task force of U.S. regulators recommended Wednesday that domestic nuclear plants move quickly to beef up safety on the pools that hold and cool used nuclear fuel rods, after similar pools overheated during the Japanese nuclear crisis in March...Nuclear...
Whale Wars: series return, Wednesday, October 5
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-05 11:08:40 -0800 | political-news
This is real life-and-death stuff right from the start, the lives most at risk being those of the Sea Shepherd crew and the whales they're trying to save. This first episode of series three begins with the Sea Shepherd ship,...
Business › Toshiba, Kazatomprom establish joint venture for rare metals
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-03 21:39:27 -0800 | business-news
Toshiba Corp has established a joint venture for rare metals, KT Rare Metals Company Limited Liability Partnership, with Joint Stock Company NAC Kazatomprom (Kazatomprom), the state-owned company responsible for promoting Kazakhstan's nuclear-related businesses.
Technology › MHI, MC to collaborate with Indonesia in natural gas synthesis project
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-02 16:33:04 -0800 | technology-news
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) and Mitsubishi Corp (MC) have agreed with the Indonesian government to collaborate in a large-scale substitute natural gas synthesis project utilizing Indonesia's abundant low rank coal which is conducted by MHI/MC and Indonesian partners (government...
Japan's Answer to Next Tsunami? Mini Noah's Ark
Source: Fox
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-01 12:22:59 -0800 | technology-news
President Shoji Tanaka crawls out from a spherical earthquake and tsunami shelter "Noah" made of fiber enforced plastic at the company's factory in Hiratsuka, west of Tokyo. A small Japanese company has developed a modern, miniature version of Noah's Ark...
Morphix Chameleon Chemical Suicide Detection Kit
Source: EMRUpdate
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-11-29 19:44:43 -0800 | technology-news
Chemical suicides, the macabre chemistry of mixing liquids normally found under the kitchen sink to create a deadly gas, are becoming more popular these days, a trend originally started by the trendy Japanese. But the cooks of the deadly brew...
National › Hydrogen buildup detected in No. 1 reactor at Fukushima plant
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-01-13 10:14:46 -0800 | political-news
Hydrogen with a high concentration level has been detected in pipes connected to the No...Air containing at least 4% hydrogen and 5% oxygen increases the possibility of an explosion, experts say. Fuji TV that an explosion is unlikely because the...
UK home to Japan's at-risk plants
Source: BBC
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-11-24 21:35:17 -0800 | political-news
Plant hunters' legacy help Japan's threatened species Environment reporter, BBC News When Japan opened its borders in 1854, plant hunters flocked there in search of exotic species The British tradition of collecting plants from all four corners of the world...
First Blue Rose In The World
Posted by: Jay-ar Mendoza
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-03-16 09:31:54 -0700 | green-news
First in the world, “Applause” named to a blue rose which is genetically modified by a Japanese company Suntory, a subsidiary of Australian Suntory Flower. The colored blue rose has been modified to synthesize a pigment called delphininidin which is...
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