National › Japan plans futuristic farm with robot workers in disaster zone
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-03-24 18:35:59 -0700 | green-news
Japan is planning a futuristic farm where robots do the lifting in an experimental project on land swamped by the March tsunami. Under an agriculture ministry plan, unmanned tractors will work fields where pesticides will have been replaced by LEDs...
Sales tax rates may double in Japan
Source: The Journal Gazette
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-04-21 00:49:15 -0700 | political-news
Japan's ruling party agreed Friday on a plan to double the sales tax by 2015 after weeks of internal debate and a member revolt as Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda fights to head off another credit-rating downgrade. The proposal would raise...
Launch of Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Campaign in Tokyo
Source: Asian Tribune
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-02-29 15:54:53 -0800 | political-news
The campaign will cover a range of areas which include a planned advertising campaign targeting consumers, event promotions, and promotional activities for travel agents and proposal based marketing and promotional activities. At the kick-off launch, Ambassador Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda...
Report Condemns Japan’s Response to Nuclear Accident
Source: Newyork Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-03-23 05:09:18 -0700 | green-news
From inspectors who abandoned the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as it succumbed to disaster to a delay in disclosing radiation leaks, Japan 's response to the nuclear accident caused by the March tsunami fell tragically short, a government-appointed investigative...
US regulators OK construction of new n-reactor
Source: The Economic Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-02-23 11:14:02 -0800 | business-news
The US Nuclear Regulatory Committee on Thursday gave the green light to the design of a new Westinghouse Electric Co. reactor, paving the way for the first construction of nuclear reactors in the United States since the 1979 Three Mile...
Japan Launches Second Spy Satellite This Year
Source: Fox
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-02-12 23:43:03 -0800 | entertainment-news
Japan successfully put a spy satellite into orbit on Monday and expects to complete its network of intelligence-gathering satellites with another launch next year. Tanegashima went off without a hitch and the radar-equipped satellite is functioning properly.
Pearl Harbor: crucible of 'the greatest generation' | Clancy Sigal
Source: The Guardian
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-02-08 05:25:49 -0800 | political-news
Military airfield near Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack, 7 December 1941...My teenage son Joe would not be alive today if his grandfather, my wife's father, had not escaped the initial Japanese "sneak attack" on the US military base at...
Japan’s Huge Nuclear Cleanup Makes Returning Home a Goal
Source: International Herald Tribune
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-03-23 00:08:02 -0700 | business-news
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times Mitsue Ikeda said she would never go home, especially after a medical exam showed that her 8-year-old son, Yuma, had ingested cesium. Its traditional wooden homes have begun to sag and collapse since...
Japan's very special Christmas tree is the costliest
Posted by: prabirghose
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-07-28 01:54:08 -0700 | travel-news
The costliest Christmas tree of 2011 is, till now, is reported to be on view in Japan. It is in Tokyo and is made of 12 Kg of pure gold and valued at $2 million. The 8-foot tall tree is...
National › Hosono gives up salary over dumping of radioactive soil by environment ministry official
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-01-18 16:56:16 -0800 | green-news
Environment Minister Goshi Hosono said Friday he would give up his annual salary after an official at the ministry dumped radioactive soil from Fukushima on a vacant lot of land near his home in Saitama Prefecture. Hosono, who is also...
Japan wants the tourists to come back
Posted by: prabirghose
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-07-27 18:04:21 -0700 | travel-news
Japan is rolling out the red carpet for tourists. Tokyo plans to open the doors to the Tokyo Sky Tree – when completed in May 2012, it would be a tallest broadcasting tower in the world and the second tallest...
National › Fishermen net bag with Y11 mil off Iwate coast
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-29 18:16:44 -0800 | political-news
A fishing boat off Japan netted a bag packed with 11 million yen in cash off the tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast, an official said Saturday. The cash-laden catch was probably swept away from its still-unknown owner in the tsunami seven months...
Ciao Simoncelli Italian dies in horror crash
Source: The Star
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | updated 2011-12-27 00:27:00 -0800 | business-news
The Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix was supposed to have basked in glory thanks to having achieved its best-ever attendance of 111,385 and Banting-born Zulfahmi Khairuddin career-high seventh placing in the 125cc class. A record 67,112 attended the race yesterday but...
Israeli Official Visits Japan for Disaster Relief
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2011-12-23 16:30:09 -0800 | political-news
Vilnai is scheduled to sign a cooperation agreement that will deal with emergency rescue and relief. Vilnai will visit damaged areas of Japan and discuss how the two countries can learn from each others experiences in disaster relief.
Palace, AFP mourn soldiers' deaths, vow justice
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2011-12-19 14:44:48 -0800 | political-news
Basilan. " Nakikiramay po tayo sa pamilya na naiwan ng ating magigiting na sundalo. Nakakalungkot po 'yung mga ganitong pangyayari kahit sabihin po nating sila ay sundalo at sa inaraw-araw ng kanilang trabaho na humaharao sila sa peligro ," said...
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