Jakarta sets eye on Asian marathon hub
Source: The Jakarta Post
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-19 21:54:40 -0700 | political-news
Jakarta Marathon 2013 is going to be the biggest marathon event in Indonesia and it is expected to draw more international tourists, particularly those who have a passion for this sport. We picked the marathon because it has one of...
Visa violators stage sit-in to stay
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-20 04:40:01 -0700 | political-news
People living in Japan on expired visas kicked off a five-day sit-in Monday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau to protest plans to deport overstaying immigrants en masse on chartered planes this fiscal year. Reportedly as part of...
More serious than their parents
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-18 10:08:28 -0700 | political-news
I notice that a lot of senior employees of traditional Japanese companies often bemoan the fact that their daughters cannot easily find desirable husbands these days. Some people describe Japanese young men today as grass-eating boys who are too timid...
Has Caribbean Diplomacy Lost Its Mojo?
Source: Inter Press Service
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-18 06:28:14 -0700 | political-news
IPS Articles The paper went on to blame the complete lack of strategic planning by the political leadership and Caricom Secretariat in positioning our regional citizens for top jobs. Earlier in the week, the country's former prime minister P.J...At the...
Two held for murder of Staines
Source: Qatar English Daily
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 19:55:53 -0700 | political-news
A CBI team arrested Ghanashyam Mohant, 35, and Ranjan Mohant, 38, from their villages in Keonjhar district. Australian missionary Staines and his two sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, six, were burnt to death on January 22, 1999, while they were...
Politics › Restoration Party member ousted over Korean prostitution remarks
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 15:36:47 -0700 | political-news
I can imagine Nishimura's source of such info, late night drunk session with Yaks...US has been busting Korean prostitutions for years and it has been a cat/mouse race-never ending...Attorney's Office announced Friday that it raided two organizations in California that...
Japanese restaurant closes over health inspection score
Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 12:17:33 -0700 | political-news
Yamamoto Japanese Grill & Sushi, 130 West Tiverton Way in south Lexington, was closed after a health department inspection cited it for violations including: Potentially hazardous food not date-marked Raw chicken thawing at room temperature Sushi chef preparing sushi without...
LDP wants more might for SDF, and Ospreys
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 10:15:08 -0700 | political-news
The Liberal Democratic Party called Friday for a more muscular role for the Self-Defense Forces in defending Japan and fulfilling the nation's responsibility as a U.S. ally. In its draft proposal for a 10-year defense outline, the party's Defense and...
Fish milt used to glean rare earths
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 05:36:57 -0700 | political-news
Japanese researchers said Friday they have found a better, cheaper way to smelt rare earth metals by using salmon milt, or sperm. Rare earth ores can contain several of the 17 metals considered essential to manufacturing motors, phone parts and...
Go! Go! Amigo! Mexican Food Fiesta at the Miramar Garden Taipei
Source: Taiwan News
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 06:00:46 -0700 | political-news
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Newspaper 2013-05-17 07:39 PM Imagine hot blazing sun and equally hot spicy food. This summer, the Miramar Garden Taipei takes you for a walk in the wild side as Rain...
Beijing's Brand Ambassador
Source: Foreign Affairs
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 07:36:38 -0700 | political-news
A Conversation With Cui Tiankai (AP/ Jacques Brinon) Cui Tiankai, 60, arrived in Washington, D.C., on April 2 to take up his new post as China's ambassador to the United States. A fluent English speaker with a master's degree from...
Education Increase Damages More Young Minds
Source: Scoop
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 14:59:01 -0700 | political-news
He says, I could have said it was a waste of money but it is not...The destruction to the human spirit is about to commence another hit and it will continue en masse. Our very acceptance of the one size...
Foreign diplomats rack up i¿½70MILLION bill after refusing to pay congestion charge because they say ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 13:28:40 -0700 | political-news
16 May 2013 Diplomats in London have racked up a staggering 70 million in unpaid congestion charge fines, it emerged today. Over the past ten years foreign embassies have accumulated more than 600,000 penalty charge notices after refusing to pay...
Chef Killed Over Meal: Guests Wanted Money Back
Source: Epoch Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 16:56:00 -0700 | political-news
Japanese chef Miki Nozawa was killed by two guests over a dish of fried noodles. The two suspects, aged 36 and 50, were angry over a dish of fried noodles with vegetables and beef, and asked for their money back....
Join the crowd at Sanja festival
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 08:56:49 -0700 | political-news
The story goes that precisely 1,385 years ago, two brothers, Hinokuma Hamanari and Hinokuma Takenari, were fishing in Sumida River when they discovered in their nets an unlikely object: a statue of the Bodhisattva Kannon. Buddhism itself was still little...
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