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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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  • 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolts northeast Japan no tsunami warning

    earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.No tsunami warnings have been issued.The United States Geological Survey recorded the quake at 6.1, with a depth of 20.5 miles. The epicentre of the quake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, more than 200 km (125 miles) northeast of Tokyo, where buildings also ...

  • Mixi’s new boss tells ailing SNS time for changes

    Mixi Inc. will shore up its faltering earnings by seeking new businesses and doing away with complacency in the face of stiff competition from Facebook, incoming President Yusuke Asakura said Friday. Asakura, who will take the helm of the domestic social-networking site starting in June, said the company will offer 50 more smartphone apps based on its services, up from two, as part of its ...

  • With retirement Beckham brand to go even more global

    PARIS - After David Beckham’s long and distinguished soccer career ends on an artificial turf field in northwestern France, his life promises to be perhaps even more glamorous than it already has been. Nearly 20 years after breaking into the Manchester United lineup, the 38-year-old former England captain won the French league title with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) this season. After ...

  • Family drama is reimagined for today’s Japan

    Once the Mother's Day advertising displays came down, it was back to the grim reality of being a mother in Japan rather than in other developed ...

  • Berlusconi’s raunchy parties detailed in court

    MILAN, ITALY - Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center ...

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