ITN
A family of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, enjoyed the full star-treatment on at Saitama Children's Zoo, north of Tokyo, as they jumped into an open-air hot tub. Following a Japanese tradition of bathing in citrus on the winter solstice, the...
Japan Today
The government will spend a total of 75 billion yen in a six-year project to build a dock and road on Japan's southernmost island of Okinotori in an effort to study marine resources and protect an exclusive economic zone around it. It would be the...
Japan Today
The United Nations will hold a ceremony in Tokyo next May to mark the beginning of the U.N. Decade of Biodiversity, according to a plan by the secretariat of the biodiversity convention made available Saturday to Kyodo News. The ceremony will be held...
The Economic Times
Japanese shares are likely to stay within a tight range in the final trading week of 2010 with many players sitting it out for the holiday season, analysts said Friday. "With the US and European markets taking breaks and trading thinning as the year-...
United Press International
Japanese officials are considering regulations that would ban smoking in the workplace except in enclosed areas, officials say. An advisory committee submitted the plan this week to Health Minister Ritsuo Hosokawa, The Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
United Press International
Tokyo police have confirmed counterterrorism documents were leaked and published on the Internet earlier this year. The documents related to Metropolitan Police Department Security Division investigations appeared on the Internet in October,...