Ramirez keeps focus, waits for next opportunity to contribute
Source: Japan Times
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-17 09:35:03 -0700 | sports-news
The wait for the next at-bat, for the next opportunity to contribute to the Yokohama BayStars, for another chance to show there is still life in his bat. The BayStars' final interleague series of the year, a two-game set at...
Death threats sparked Japan's first cricket game
Source: Japan Times
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-15 09:49:01 -0700 | sports-news
On June 25, 1863, a Royal Navy team drawn from officers on ships sent to protect British expats in Japan had plenty to worry about as the lanky James Campbell Fraser strode out to bat against them on an apology...
Liberia: Ellen Mute On Several Issues
Source: Africa Headlines
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-13 04:30:41 -0700 | political-news
Parley, 13 June 2013 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf returned home on Wednesday following weeks of multiple official visits abroad, but mute on several national issues. President Sirleaf said she could not speak on issues like the controversial political parties support...
Briefly: Education: Number of Chinese Taking National Exam Falls Again
Source: International Herald Tribune
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-09 09:54:31 -0700 | technology-news
June 9, 2013 The number of Chinese students taking the gaokao, the famously stressful exam that determines admission for almost all the country's universities, has fallen slightly for the fifth straight year. The exam, which was held from Friday to...
Engine Super Bowl
Source: New York Post
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-08 21:22:01 -0700 | sports-news
Even among players who take chess really seriously, few are aware of the strongest tournament of 2013 or of its unique features: * Fifteen of the players were rated over 2900, that is well above Magnus Carlsen. * Once a...
Yoga teacher finds creative voice — and success — in ‘surreal' Tokyo
Source: Japan Times
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-07 09:18:01 -0700 | entertainment-news
While hammering nails and cutting planks in the prop department at New York's Lincoln Center for the Metropolitan Opera in the early 2000s, Barry Silver never dreamed of a life in Japan. After halting his youthful downward spiral with the...
Business › Nissan releases all-new DAYZ
Source: Japan Today
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-06 14:53:10 -0700 | business-news
Nissan participated in the development from the onset of the product planning phase, achieves fuel economy of 29.2 km/L (in JC08 mode testing) the best among height wagon-type minicars thanks to the newly-developed three-cylinder engine, continuously variable transmission (CVT) with...
Biotech, IT and beyond in Yokohama
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-05 13:51:58 -0700 | business-news
Joe Panetta, president and CEO of Biocom, is taking part in a trade mission to Japan that ends Friday. In his alternative role as U-T San Diego's special correspondent, Panetta reports back on Wednesday's events. Previous installments covered Tuesday ,...
Ogasawara hits sayonara home run to lift Giants over Fighters
Source: Japan Times
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-05 09:01:51 -0700 | sports-news
Pinch hitter Michihiro Ogasawara finally got on target with the powerful swing he was once feared for. Ogasawara hit a walk-off three-run homer against reliever Hirotoshi Masui (0-2) in the 11th inning, lifting the Yomiuri Giants to a 4-1 interleague...
Price cuts help boost Nissan's U.S. sales 25%
Source: Japan Times
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-04 09:02:55 -0700 | business-news
Nissan Motor Co.'s U.S. sales surged 25 percent in May, triple the industrywide gain, after cutting prices and increasing incentives. Nissan's results were better than the 22 percent increase that was the average of eight analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg....
Africa: Why Africa Must Get Most From New Rush
Source: All Africa
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-04 08:47:08 -0700 | political-news
On the other hand, Africa is being courted by everyone like she was the most and beautiful girl in this wide neighbourhood...It has actually been doing that for quite a while, quietly, sometimes unnoticed so that some people were caught...
Fish, biotech and Japan: Monday's report
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-03 19:21:27 -0700 | business-news
Biocom president and CEO Joe Panetta and others from the San Diego World Trade Center, along with other business leaders, are visiting Japan on a trade mission. Panetta is sending dispatches of events in the trip, which ends on Friday....
Politics › At TICAD, clumsy diplomacy mars controversial Japanese aid project in Mozambique
Source: Japan Today
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-03 12:48:17 -0700 | political-news
Japanese aid project in Mozambique Antonio Muagerene shares a photo of Mozambican peasant farmers in the area affected by the ProSavana plan, indicated in the brochure to his left. During a development forum with the president of Mozambique and several...
Uganda: Museveni Defends Private Sector At TICAD
Source: Africa Headlines
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-03 05:11:46 -0700 | political-news
Yokohama Inadequate development of the infrastructure, especially electricity is among the factors affecting development of African countries, President Yoweri Museveni has said...Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, Alex Godwin Coutinho of Uganda received the 2nd Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for medical...
Tokyo seeks to catch up in Africa
Source: China News
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-06-03 03:50:27 -0700 | business-news
The country has been busy announcing development aid programs for Myanmar, India and Africa. When the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development opened in Yokohama on Saturday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged that his country's aid to Africa...
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