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  • Nippon Airways reports minor incident on modified Dreamliner Nippon Airways reports minor incident on modified Dreamliner

    TOKYO - Japan's All Nippon Airways said Friday a modified Dreamliner had suffered a "minor" setback while conducting a test flight of an aircraft this month, but assured it was not due to overheating of lithium batteries. All Nippon Airways, the Japanese airline that is the largest operator of Boeing's beleaguered Dreamliner, said an electric distribution panel overheated and blackened during ...

  • Manmohan Singh to visit Japan and Thailand

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is slated to pay official visit to Japan from May 27 to 29 and to the Kingdom of Thailand on May 30 and 31. The visit to Japan is at the invitation of Prime Minister of Japan, H.E. Mr. Shinzo Abe. The Annual Summit between the Prime Ministers of India and Japan is expected to enhance and strengthen the Strategic and Global Partnership between the two countries. ...

  • Soon your hand will also be your smartphone

    Researchers from the University of Tokyo are in the process of developing a technology to put the mobile phone on the palm of your hand. Using a special camera that combines high-speed vision and two rotational mirrors, Masatoshi Ishikawa and his team at the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory, said that they have found a method to project a device's display screen or keyboard onto the palm, or any other ...

  • Japan confirms DPRK launched missile

    Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Japanese government confirmed the DPRK's missile launches on Saturday, saying none of the missiles have landed in Japan's territorial waters, Kyodo news agency reported. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency earlier reported that the DPRK launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday, citing the country's defense ministry. It is reported ...

  • Japanese executive commits suicide in Gurgaon

    A senior Japanese executive committed suicide by jumping off a multi storey building in a residential complex in Gurgaon, Haryana, on Friday. Yushiharu Fuji, 54, jumped from a 15 storey high-rise apartment located in Phase 5, DLF City. Gurgaon Police have since taken custody of Fuji's body. Police said Fuji might have been depressed as he lived alone, and therefore, took the extreme step to ...

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What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come

For we mortals on earth, the afterlife will always be a matter of either faith or speculation--faith for those who believe in something, speculation for those who choose not to. Either way, we don't know for sure what awaits us after our last dying breath, and we can either be comforted by what we believe in or simply ignore the whole notion. Because the afterlife is such a difficult-to-gra ... ...

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  • India Japan to strengthen investment trade ties

    India and Japan Friday agreed to further strengthen investment and trade ties by ensuring faster implementation of ongoing projects. Both the countries have agreed to support planned initiatives and projects in this year designed for strengthening business partnership to be organized by Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization ...

  • Chenni-Bangalore corridor to be strengthened with Japanese collaboration

    The meeting between H.E. Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce and Industry of India and H.E. Toshimitsu Motegi, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan was held today in Tokyo considered the enhancement of the infrastructure in the region of the Chennai Bangalore Infrastructure Corridor(CBIC). At the meeting, India and Japan acknowledged the progress made in the CBIC project and the ...

  • Yahoo Japan suspects vast ID theft

    Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...

  • Hashimoto fires back pins outcry on media

    OSAKA - Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto Saturday defended his remarks on Japan’s wartime sex slave system and criticized media outlets for running misleading reports. On a TV program, Hashimoto said he would not tolerate forcing women into such services. Earlier in the week, he came under a barrage of criticism for saying the ...

  • Despite lacking FTA Japan to get U.S. LNG

    Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...

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