In Love with Japan: A Gaijin Visits Japan and Tours Around with His Japanese Partner, Seeing Many Parts of Japan Rarely Seen by Other Westerners.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Thousands of Japanese people gathered in sweltering heat on the southern island of Okinawa today to demand that a US Marine base be moved out of the region, days ahead of a visit by president Barack Obama.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Warren Buffett's 44bn purchase of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway is a classic Berkshire Hathaway acquisition.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Japan and five Mekong nations agreed Saturday to cooperate on issues such as environmental protection and climate change in the next ten years. In the first summit that opened Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and leaders of the five countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam adopted the Tokyo Declaration, urging enhanced cooperation between the two sides on the environmental...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.
JEANSNOW.NET (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Book cover designed by Tom Tor for an upcoming project. Via FFFFOUND!
Seattle Marinerds (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Saturday, November 7th, my half-birthday, the Yomiuri Giants won the Japan Series by beating the Nippon Ham Fighters 2-0 at the Sapporo Dome. Yet again, just as in 1981, the Giants beat the Fighters in the Japan Series 4 games to 2, and for the Giants, this was their 21st Japan Series title, which of course is still almost double the next-highest winning team, the Seibu Lions with 13 titles. If you...
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Did Harry Truman’s combat experience play a role in his decision to drop the atomic bomb? D.M. Giangreco, a Kansas City area author who for 20 years served as an editor at Military Review, thinks it could have.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Japanese government has resolved to halt humanitarian aid to Russia's South Kuril Islands after the Russian side rejected it
Of Rice and Zen (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
In Omihachiman, Shiga, drive to Nakaki Honda dealership on Route 8 and turn right at the next traffic lights. Follow the road until you hear …
White Folks Get Crunk (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Kind of a late post! But I know i’m always lookin’ for new bangers at the last min. It helps if you start drinkin’ while you do it haha. Here’s a few tracks, lil bit of everything, that I know IM gonna play tonight. You might have em, you might not. Either way, hope you [...]
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tired of holding a megaphone in your hands every time you want to be very very loud? Then get yourself a TOA hands-free megaphone: Although similar products already exist, this TV show presented as a new invention. Expect to see street salespeople in Japan making use of this device very soon (if they aren’t [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Tokyo - Thousands of people rallied on the island of Okinawa in southern Japan on Sunday to demand the relocation of a US military base which they say has been a burden on the island. The protests, which organizers say drew about 21,000 people, occur...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The TechCrunch Japan TokyoCamp 2009, a demo event for web startups that took place this Friday , was a total blast. No less than 350 people came to the demo pit and meetup, which were co-organized by DESIGN IT!, LLC (a Sociomedia group company that runs TechCrunch Japan) and Nikkei Digital Core (a community under the umbrella of the Nikkei , Japan’s biggest business publication). This time,...
France24 (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Japan's Hiroshi Aoyama claimed the 250cc world title at the season-ending Valencia motorcycling Grand Prix here on Sunday. The title-challenge had gone down to the wire with 28-year-old Aoyama taking a 21-point lead over Italy's Marco Simoncelli into the race. The Honda rider needed to finish 11th or higher to secure his first championship and the final 250cc title before the category is replaced...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Japan was an economy that was hit particularly hard by the recession, thanks to a tradition of frugality. But prices, production and consumption have stabilized, and the economy and related ETFs may be showing small improvements. According to the Bank of Japan (BOJ), “Japan’s economy has started to pick up” and the economy is “likely to improve...
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wowgold | 04/11/2009
"Everybody do it, but wow gold it is This year the receipt sales quadrupled. Behind Los Angeles and Tokyo is not a municipal issue." in a high drill only 16 people And only 300 000 German gold have long since reached the mainstream," says Juergen Fritz, boss of 670 000 copies. Over one billion euros last built with the electronic worlds in Germany. 2005, ten percent expansion, are secure, although...
traimi | 27/09/2009
According to the latest reports from Japan’s Best Car Magazine, it appears that besides the new Toyobaru Sports Car , the Tokyo Motor Show will also see a new version of the Subaru Justy.
traimi | 27/09/2009
Practical or not? You decide. This is Honda ’s U3-X, its new personal mobility technology. It’s still at the experimental stage and Honda is continuing research and development of the device. Honda will also be testing the device in the real-world to verify its practicality.
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