| Technology that allows bosses to spy on employees A Japanese phone company has come up with a new technology that can track most minimal movement of mobile phone users and beams the information back to... | |
| Japanese Shares Climb Early, With Autos Strong LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares followed their U.S. peers higher in early Friday trade, with auto stocks staging an early rally, helped by reportedly good sales at Honda Motor... |
| Benitec Limited "graham" Patent Granted In Japan BLT.AX ) (PINK:BNIKF) today announced that a patent "Control of Gene Expression", part of the Graham patent family of RNA interference (RNAi) patents was granted in... |
| Japan Economy Improving, But Not Self-sustaining Yet: Kan+ TOKYO, March 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)Finance Minister Naoto Kan said Friday the Japanese economy has been improving further in recent weeks, but is not self-sustaining yet. The economy has not... |
| Dollar Firms To Upper 90 Yen Level In Early Tokyo Trading+ TOKYO, March 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)The U.S. dollar firmed to the upper 90 yen level early Friday in Tokyo, after moving narrowly in the mid-90 yen range in overnight trading in New York. At 9... |
| <font Color="#996633" Face="times New Roman,times,times Newroman">japan Finance Minister: Can't Say Japan Recovery Sustainable Yet</font> -(Dow Jones)- Japan's finance minister Naoto Kan said Friday that recent gross domestic product data suggest there has been an improvement in the nation's economy, but that it is still too early to... |
| Japan Industrial Output Due On Friday (RTTNews) - Japan is scheduled to release final January numbers for industrial production on Friday, headlining a light day for Asian economic activity.Analysts are expecting little change in the... |
| Higher Open Expected For Tokyo Shares (RTTNews) - A higher open is expected for Japan shares on Friday, coming off a modestly positive lead from Wall Street.Japan stocks moved solidly higher on Thursday, hitting a seven-week closing... |
| Japan To Arrest Anti-whaling Activist Japan's Coast Guard has obtained an arrest warrant for an anti-whaling activist who has been held aboard a Japanese harpoon ship since boarding it in the Antarctic last month, press reports say.New... |
| 3rd Tokyo Airport Opens To Fanfare And Criticism TOKYO -- Tokyo's third international airport opened Thursday with festivity -- and heavy criticism that it's a wasteful project expected to serve just a fraction of the passengers forecast. Hundreds... |
| Mountz Teams Up With Sony Manufacturing Systems To Promote Screw Feeding Products In North America Mountz, Inc - the torque tool specialists and its subsidiary companies in Canada and Mexico have been assigned the North American distributorship for the FEEDKIDS screw presentation products made by... |
| Marten Killed Ibises In Sado / Security Camera Footage, Tracks Point To Weasel-like Animal As Culprit The Environment Ministry announced Thursday that a marten killed nine of 11 Japanese crested ibis that were being prepared to return to the wild in a cage in Sado, Niigata Prefecture. The ministry... |
| 70 Immigration Detainees On Hunger Strike OSAKA — At least 70 detainees at the West Japan Immigration Control Center, which has long been criticized by human rights groups and Diet members, have been on a hunger strike since Monday,... |
| Luck Of The Irish To Parade Across Country St. Patrick, who helped spread Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century, is the country's patron saint. Legend has it that he died on March 17, so the Irish celebrate the day by wearing green,... |
| Bullying Flap Shakes Japan's Royals When an official at the Imperial Household Agency suddenly announced last week that 8-year-old Princess Aiko was refusing to go to school because of bullying, he did more than just disclose a mundane... |
| Ibaraki Airport Opens With Only 1 Regular Daily Flight To Seoul Ibaraki Airport opened Thursday as the third airport in the Tokyo metropolitan area, with a daily flight to and from Seoul by South Korea's Asiana Airlines serving as the only regular flight at the... |
| All Black Clottey To Play In Japan - Report AUCKLAND (Reuters) - All Blacks utility back Tamati Ellison will play for a Japanese club later this year, ending any hopes of being involved in the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand. Ellison is to... |
| Newswatch: Sony Unveils Playstation Move Motion Controller Sony lifts the wraps on its new motion-control video game system called PlayStation Move, which is expected to hit the market later this... |
| Japan Coast Guard Set To Arrest Antiwhaling Activist Upon Arrival In Tokyo TOKYO — The Japan Coast Guard on Thursday obtained an arrest warrant for a member of antiwhaling group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on suspicion of trespassing on a vessel of... |
| Top Court Rejects Ex-mitsubishi Execs' Appeal Over Cover-up TOKYO — The Supreme Court has rejected appeals by a former Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp chairman and two former Mitsubishi Motors Corp. executives who were accused of fabricating... |
| 'the Cove' Puts Japanese Fishermen Everywhere On The Defense OTSUCHI — As soon as the fishermen saw my TV camera, one ran at me, yelling “No!” and pushing me out of the building. Another smeared his rubber fish gutting glove across my lens,... |
| 3rd Tokyo Airport Opens TOKYO: Tokyo's third international airport opened Thursday with festivity - and heavy criticism that it's a wasteful project expected to serve just a fraction of the passengers... |
| Japan Confirms Secret Nuclear Pacts With U.s. In this 1969 photo, U.S. President Nixon welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato at the White House when the two leaders were holding talks concerning the return of Okinawa to Japanese control.... |
| Japan’s Growing Attachment To China Over The Us Businessmen are reflected in the electric stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, March 1. Japan’s foreign minister has said that, “This will be the age of... |
| Ady Gil's Skipper To Be Arrested The New Zealand national has been detained on the Shonan Maru No. 2 and was to be arrested upon the ship's arrival in Tokyo on Friday morning in what the coast guard said is its first case involving... |
| Disgraced Jones Turns To Basketball TULSA, Okla. (AP) Former sprinter Marion Jones signed with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock on Wednesday, hoping to launch a new career after losing five Olympic medals for using steroids and doing jail time... |
| Garciaparra Retires After Re-signing With Red Sox FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) Six years after he was traded away for the final pieces of Boston's World Series puzzle, Nomar Garciaparra finally got a friendly farewell from the Red... |
| 'bruno' Aims To Expose Homophobia, Risks Becoming Antigay Cohen's next move was to drag up another of his old TV characters, a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista named Bruno. And surprise surprise, with this new film "Bruno," he's managed to pull off... |
| Hatoyama Dons Tech Salesman Hat The late French President Charles de Gaulle once labeled a Japanese prime minister a "transistor salesman." Now Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is hawking bullet trains and nuclear plants after Toyota... |
| Mavericks Extend Winning Streak To 13 Kidd had 20 points and nine assists, hitting 5 of 8 from 3-point range, and the Mavericks recovered from a lethargic start to match the NBA's longest winning streak this season with their 13th... |
| The World's Most Eclectic Renter Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude have worked together on some of the world's most high-profile and unusual public art works since the 1970s. In 1983, the two surrounded the shores of 11 islands in... |
| Family-friendly Exhibit Celebrates Mammals From Ueno Zoo's giant panda, Ling Ling, to a 2.5-meter-tall polar bear, around 280 stuffed specimens, fossils and skeletons of mammals will go on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science... |
| Henin Still Trying To Get Into Groove After Return Henin, the former No. 1 who is playing in this tournament for the first time since 2006, was the top-ranked player on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour when she unexpectedly retired in May... |
| Sony Unveils Motion-sensing Game Control Kit The maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled on Thursday its highly anticipated motion-based controller system, as it takes aim at Nintendo's dominance in gaming. With PlayStation Move, Sony hopes to lure... |
| Dj Yogurt & Koyas: "chill Out" British dance duo The KLF birthed a monster with their 1990 album "Chill Out." A 44-minute ambient collage that mixed snatches of the group's own material with field recordings and samples of Elvis,... |
| Prius Gripes May Be Psychological: Experts NEW YORK — Reports of sudden acceleration in Toyota Prius models have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular... |
| Court Takes Assets From Horie's Home The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday confiscated several items from the home of former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie in connection with a lawsuit filed against him and fellow executives over... |
| 'sweet Little Lies' Goes Behind Marital Facade Trouble in paradise: Nao Omori and Miki Nakatani portray a married couple who have lost their spark in "Sweet Little Lies." © 2009 "SWEET LITTLE LIES" SEISAKU... |
| Gdp Growth For Quarter Downgraded The economy expanded less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter as companies pared spending and stockpiles as deflation deepened, government data showed... |
| Marten The Culprit In Sado's Ibis Deaths NIIGATA (Kyodo) The nine rare ibises killed at an ibis preserve in Niigata Prefecture were attacked by a marten, the Environment Ministry said... |
| Yazaki Opens Up About 'lies' A leader of Japanese cinema's 1990s New Wave, Hitoshi Yazaki dropped off the radar for more than a decade, returning in 2006 with "Strawberry Shortcakes," a widely praised drama about four lonely... |
| Capitals Show Strength At Home Again, Beat Hurricanes In Overtime WASHINGTON (AP) On Monday night, Tomas Fleischmann was a healthy scratch for the first time all season. On Wednesday night, he scored in overtime for the Washington... |
| Dancer Rizzi Brings Unique Story To Japan "Why go to a performance instead of renting a DVD and staying at home?" ponders 44-year-old dancer, choreographer, actor and visual artist Antony Rizzi on the Boston Cyberarts Festival Web site.... |
| California Eatery, Chef Accused Of Serving Whale LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) The owner and chef of a high-end sushi restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif., are facing criminal charges for allegedly serving illegal whale meat, local reports said... |
| Ldh To Put Livedoor On The Block LDH plans to invite bids for Livedoor soon so it can make a profit on the sale. South Korean Internet firms and investment funds are expected to join the bidding, the sources said. LDH is still... |
| Dodgy Papers Block 2,200 Tons Of Atlantic Bluefin The government has suspended the import of about 2,200 tons of farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna due to documentation flaws, in the first such action under an international scheme designed to block the... |
| Niigata Hoping For Pro Baseball Club Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida said Thursday he will set up a committee this month for the purpose of bringing a professional baseball club to his... |
| Osaka Cows Plum Good But A Bit Pickled The chaser: Shoji Harano lets his beef cattle feed on "ume" (plums) normally used to make plum wine in order to produce "ume beef" in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. KYODO... |
| Prada Accused Of Maltreatment A senior manager at Prada Japan has filed a legal complaint against the Italian fashion label, accusing the company of harassment and discrimination based on appearance and alleging it maltreated... |
