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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Japan Herald.com http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:41:30 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:41:30 -0500 30 Young Japanese males are apathetic about dating and are disinterested in sex, a new study has said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247375/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:30:08 -0500 ANI http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247375/cs/1/ Kingston Holdings, has appointed Four Communications, for a region-wide public relations programme to support the group's strong growth in the Middle East and North ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203250445/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:05:43 -0500 Mena Report http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203250445/ Manama-Feb 5-(BNA) Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Dr. Essam Abdulla Fakhro received Japanese Ambassador to Bahrain Shigeki Sumi and hailed good political and economic relations. ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203249389/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:53:35 -0500 Bahrain News Agency http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203249389/ Japanese No.1 Ayumi Morita posted three wins to lead Japan to a 5-0 victory over Slovenia in the Fed Cup tennis World Group II first round tie on ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247774/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:29:05 -0500 SBS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247774/ TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States and Japan have agreed to tweak a six-year-old agreement on Marines based on the southern island of Okinawa, allowing Washington to deploy forces to the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247960/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:03:56 -0500 News on Japan http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247960/ Sumco Corp., a supplier to Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp., said yesterday it will cut 1,300 jobs. Auto windshield maker Nippon Sheet Glass Co., which sells to Mazda Motor Corp., said it will cut 3,500 ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247959/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:03:24 -0500 General Sources http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247959/ Mr. Imai, who lives in Southern California, owns a 1971 Datsun 510 wagon and a 1972 Datsun pickup. The vehicles’ peculiar silhouettes, diminutive scale and heavy use of chrome trim are typical ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247961/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:57:52 -0500 New York Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247961/ TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExxonMobil and TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K have entered into an agreement which will result in the restructuring of ExxonMobil's holdings in Japan. Under the terms of ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247560/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:29 -0500 Oil and Gas Online http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203247560/ Senior officials of the foreign and defence ministries of the two countries will meet in Washington on Monday to start full-fledged negotiations on a new realignment plan, according to the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203245069/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:21:03 -0500 General Sources http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203245069/ Participants in the January 14-15 anti-nuclear conference in Tokyo. Photo by John Tutty. Five anti-nuclear activists travelled from Australia to attend the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242022/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:49 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242022/ As the one-year anniversary of the devastating March 11, 2011, Japanese earthquake approaches, and debris from the ensuing tsunami moves closer to the West Coast, a group of Oregon agencies, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242200/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:52:19 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242200/ Recently, however, the company has struggled. Led until this week by Welshman Sir Howard Stringer, Sony has battled floods in Japan, a fire at its main warehouse in London, a rising Yen and a ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242363/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:41:41 -0500 News on Japan http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242363/ NEW YORK — Multiple hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi has won an annual chicken wing eating contest in Philadelphia, downing a record 337 wings in 30 ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242362/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:41:39 -0500 News on Japan http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242362/ An apparently new species of spider has been found in our woods, even though the creature has probably been around since long before humans came to ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242361/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:41:38 -0500 News on Japan http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242361/ Arecent education ministry survey of third-year middle school students nationwide found most students have an ambivalent and contradictory attitude toward English. Of the 3,225 students surveyed, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242364/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:41:35 -0500 News on Japan http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242364/ The number of foreign nationals detained by immigration officials for one year or more has dropped significantly since a more flexible approach was adopted in response to harsh criticism of ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242366/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:41:30 -0500 News on Japan http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242366/ OSAKA — An American resident in Osaka died Saturday after a passer-by found him lying unconscious on a street in the busy Minami area in Chuo Ward earlier in the day, police ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242367/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:41:28 -0500 News on Japan http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242367/ The Watari district of Fukushima city is seen in northeast Japan, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/ Greg Baker) Japan should take steps toward full-scale restoration of regions devastated by the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242360/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:31:11 -0500 Mainichi Daily http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242360/ Women admire the soft light released from traditional "toro," or garden lanterns, in Kasugataisha shrine in Nara on Feb. 3. The lanterns were lit in an event called, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242355/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:05:19 -0500 The Asahi Shimbun http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242355/ The industry ministry has proposed new guidelines that will push electric power companies to cut personnel and advertising expenses before approval is given to increase rates. But there are limits ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242356/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:05:17 -0500 The Asahi Shimbun http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242356/ Total net profits of about 43 percent of firms listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange plunged by almost 50 percent year on year in the first three quarters of fiscal 2011, according ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242357/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:05:16 -0500 The Asahi Shimbun http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242357/ Three short films by Atsushi Wada, Akihito Izuhara and Naoto Kawamoto have been nominated in the Berlinale Shorts category at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival, festival officials ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242358/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:05:13 -0500 The Asahi Shimbun http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242358/ LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The IOC awarded Japanese broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics to a national consortium on Feb. 3 in a deal worth 36 billion yen ($472 ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242359/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:05:12 -0500 The Asahi Shimbun http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203242359/ A new Japanese model? Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of up-and-coming e-retailer Rakuten, believes Japan's big industrial firms 'cannot keep doing what they have been doing.' ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203240288/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:41:12 -0500 The Guardian http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203240288/ ARLINGTON, Texas — Josh Hamilton shed no tears, used no prepared statement as he apologized and shared few details about his relapse with alcohol. Still, it was clear he was upset by what he ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235834/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:41 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235834/ LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The IOC awarded Japanese broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics to a national consortium Friday in a $472 million ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235488/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:35 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235488/ LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers and free agent Kenyon Martin have agreed to a one-year deal, returning the veteran forward to the NBA after a brief stint in ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235833/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:32 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235833/ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Younis Khan scored his first half century of the series as Pakistan steadily progressed to 120-2 at tea on the second day of the third and final test against ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235677/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:29 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235677/ During his annual Super Bowl news conference, commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday there hasn't been any discussion about adding to the league's 32 teams, and indicated he's not too ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235838/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:22 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235838/ The Japan Fashion Week Organization, which sponsors the Tokyo Collection, the nation's biggest fashion event, gave a government grant last year to a label owned by a member of its selection ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235837/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:18 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235837/ Derick Brassard scored his second goal with 1:05 left in overtime, and Columbus snapped its six-game skid with a come-from-behind 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235836/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:16 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235836/ Chalk up a major victory for the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix's front office. The Eastern Conference power improved to 5-0 since versatile forward Lawrence Blackledge joined the team. The ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235835/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:12 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235835/ Durant scored 36 points and hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer in the final minute to lift the Thunder to a 101-94 victory against Memphis on Friday night in a rematch of their epic Western Conference ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235841/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:04 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235841/ Untouchable: Federal prosecutors gave up their investigation of doping by seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong on Friday after two years. ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235192/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:01 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235192/ Imposing: Shimane Susanoo Magic center Jeral Davis is a force around the basket, blocking shots and dunking on his foes with equal proficiency. SHIMANE SUSANOO MAGIC / ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235842/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:57 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235842/ WASHINGTON — The IMF said it will send a team to Tokyo this week to discuss the yen's appreciation with government officials, academics and business ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235843/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:52 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235843/ Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa said he will oppose any bills the Noda administration submits in the current Diet session to raise the sales tax, describing the planned hike as ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235844/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:44 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235844/ The Hall of Fame coach, who turns 70 in May, has been suffering for several months from spinal stenosis, a lower back condition that causes him severe pain and hampers mobility, the school said ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235182/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:38 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235182/ OSAKA — Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto have agreed to start policy consultations between their regional political groups on fielding candidates for the next ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235845/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:35 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235845/ Colorado Springs Colorado — Three-time U.S. figure skating champion Jeremy Abbott has withdrawn from next week's Four Continents because of a right hip ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235846/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:31 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235846/ He announced his plans for surgery Friday on Twitter. He had already ruled himself out of the world championships that begin March 25 in Nice, France, so he can recover from the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235847/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:24 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235847/ Chiba — Five Chinese trainees have returned to Japan to resume their training at a Miyagi Prefecture seafood processing company whose executive officer died while helping them survive the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235771/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:16 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235771/ Those were some of the observations made by BayStars general manager Shigeru Takada at a meeting of the Association of American Baseball Research in Tokyo last week. At age 66, Takada has taken on ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235849/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:10 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235849/ VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — Hino Motors Ltd. is testing trucks that can withstand extreme cold in a bid to expand sales in the Russian market, company officials said ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235155/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:02 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235155/ HONG KONG: Japan will look to take a giant stride toward a fifth consecutive appearance at the Olympic Games on Sunday as Takashi Sekizuka's side travel to Amman to face fellow Group C ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235523/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:25:13 -0500 Arab News http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235523/ Leaks of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant, less than two months after it was declared stable. It underlines the continuing challenges facing Tokyo ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235066/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:35:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203235066/ In my opinion the reason why the not-so-prestigious private universities in Japan are said to be having a hard time attracting Japanese students is that many of the lecturers have poor academic ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234082/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:20:12 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234082/ None. Only perfection would confer that level of worthiness. Given the limitless human potential for failure, error, frustration and — sometimes even among fundamentally good people — ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234084/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:20:10 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234084/ The expression of the poet Ryuichi Tamura, as he looks out at the reader from the cover of this book, reminded me just a little of photographs of the Irish poet W.B. Yeats, though without the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234087/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:20:04 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234087/ Arecent education ministry survey of third-year middle school students nationwide found most students have an ambivalent and contradictory attitude toward English. Of the 3,225 students surveyed, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234086/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:20:01 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234086/ I had just arrived with a friend named Henry on the island of Yakushima, which lies in the East China Sea about 190 km south of Kagoshima in Kyushu. It is famed for its wild virgin forests, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234085/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:19:58 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234085/ Alas, this very important subject gets short shrift in this misleadingly titled, hastily cobbled together assessment of the causes and consequences of the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234088/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:19:51 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234088/ Those responsible for the nurse certification exam are, and always will remain, an arrogant lot. They hold these exams just to let people fail and, in their mind, once again prove the superiority of ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234090/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:19:47 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234090/ The chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau was found to have given lectures on the coming mayoral election in Ginowan on Okinawa Island, the site of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, to bureau ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234089/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:19:44 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234089/ The intended purpose of the health ministry's nursing exam is not to certify foreign applicants but to send them back to their home country after they have been exploited for three to four ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234091/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:19:40 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234091/ Research by Matt Welch of Reason magazine shows that no speech varies less from president to president than the State of the Union address. Talking down to the American people at the eighth-grade ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234092/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:19:33 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234092/ Last week in Counterpoint I wrote about the three deep gaps crisscrossing this country, turning it into a kakusa shakai (society of disparities). These rifts, amply recognized today among the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203233696/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:19:30 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203233696/ School breaks: Students head into exams at the University of Tokyo campus. The university recently announced that it will change the start of the academic year from spring to fall in order to align ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234094/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:19:26 -0500 Japan Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203234094/ The population in Japan is shrinking, and one factor is that some young people there aren't that into sex and relationships as in the past. Lucy Craft reports, then Jeff Glor and Nancy Cordes ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203233589/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:16:05 -0500 CBS News http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203233589/ Abu Dhabi, 4 Feb. 2012 (WAM) - The Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi will organize tomorrow Monday in the Japanese capital, the Abu Dhabi Investment Forum-Tokyo, with participation of ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203233367/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:48:10 -0500 WAM http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203233367/ An exhibition "The spirit of Budo - the history of Japan`s martial art" opened in the National Art Museum in Baku. The event was organized by Azerbaijan`s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203231759/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:28 -0500 News.Az http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203231759/ In an emailed statement on 3 Febraury, the Swiss competition watchdog has stated that Libor, and its Japanese equivalent Tibor, may have influenced collusion between derivative traders. Libor is ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203228099/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:02:29 -0500 New Europe http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203228099/ MANILA, Philippines - Manabat Sanagustin & Co. (MS&Co.), one of the leading auditing and advisory firms in the country and an independent member firm of KPMG International Cooperative, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203229188/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:59:24 -0500 Manila Bulletin http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203229188/ For an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company. They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places. Especially Silicon ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203229187/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:36:39 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203229187/ Laser mine detection systems for helicopters have been ordered from Northrop Grumman for Japan's maritime military. Northrop said order for four Airborne Laser Mine Detection Systems is the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203228702/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:34:13 -0500 UPI http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203228702/ Deep winter snows and severe weather have killed at least 50 people in Japan in recent weeks, officials say. Three men died Wednesday when an avalanche engulfed three tents set up for bathers at a ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203228704/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:25:14 -0500 UPI http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/203228704/