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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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Italian jockey Mirco Demuro guided Screen Hero to victory in the Japan Cup ahead of pre-race favourite Deep Sky. But the English contingent of Purple Moon, Sixties Icon and Papal Bull were disappoint... |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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Manila: Japan called for an extended stay for the International Monitoring Team (IMT) in Mindanao, even as Malaysia decided to pull out its ceasefire monitors because of the lack of progress in the pe... |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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TOKYO: Japan has recently purchased whale meat from Iceland, marking the first such imports in 17 years, Kyodo News reported, a move that will likely irk environmental groups and anti-whaling countrie... |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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TOKYO, Nov. 30 (AP) - (Kyodo)Leading money winners on the Japan LPGA tour after the Japan LPGA Tour Championship Ricoh Cup at Miyazaki Country Club in Miyazaki Prefecture (Japanese unless noted)... |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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MIYAZAKI, Japan, Nov. 30 (AP) - (Kyodo)Leading scores Sunday after the final round of the Japan LPGA Tour Championship Ricoh Cup at Miyazaki Country Club (6,442 yards, par 72) in Miyazaki Prefec... |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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The New Zealand Government will send an air force Orion to keep tabs on Japanese whalers this season. On Thursday, Greenpeace called on the New Zealand Government to discuss how it intended to put pr... |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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TOKYO - Struggling Citigroup Inc C.N plans to sell NikkoCiti Trust and Banking Corp, its trust bank unit in Japan, as part of its global restructuring efforts in a deal that could raise up to 40 billi... |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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LONDON: When Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger go head-to-head in today's Premier League showdown, they will briefly put on hold a friendship forged in Japan a decade ... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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Minoru Tatsukawa is set to be appointed head coach of the Japan women's national team, while Tatsuya Ueta will remain in charge of the men's team, volleyball sources said Friday. |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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Mr. Aso needs to be serious ": One can only hope that Japan's prime minister will not make a comic twist of this advice, given that he is a self-proclaimed manga fan. I am not quite sure if Taro Aso i... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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CHIBA (Kyodo) The first commercial flight to leave Thailand since antigovernment protesters forced the closure of Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok last week landed at Narita airport near ... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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The role that Japan's "classic" drama, kabuki, played during the 15-year "Sacred War" is largely undiscussed, and even in Japan itself it is usually ignored. Indeed, as the author of this fascinating ... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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We have recently returned from the United States. My Japanese wife had leased out her house after her divorce in Japan and moved to the U.S. The renters of the house were allowed one dog under the con... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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The 46-year-old man suspected of murdering a former vice health minister and his wife and stabbing the wife of another former vice health minister has said that he "did not have special personal reaso... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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MIYAZAKI (Kyodo) Song Bo Bae clung onto her overnight lead after a second straight 1-under-par 71 kept the South Korean one shot clear heading into the final round of the season-ending Japan LPGA Tour... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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World champion Mao Asada came up short in her bid to make history again Saturday night, trying to land two triple axels in her free skate to become the first female ever to accomplish the feat in the ... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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NAGOYA — Japan has long been a favored destination, and a favorite subject, for Western scribes. In the 19th century, Laficadio Hearn and Isabella Bird penned books that were widely read in Euro... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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The government has proposed various stimulus packages. But how about stimulating Japan's economy with an emphasis on making people's lives better? |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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I was surprised, as I'm sure many people were, to read that public health centers dispose of unwanted and lost animals so quickly. According to the Nov. 26 article " |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) With every game the Los Angeles Lakers play, one nagging question keeps cropping up: How did they lose to the Detroit Pistons — at home? |
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