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/ 4 September 2008
Sales are improving in Japan for Sony’s PlayStation Portable, and a beefed-up version with a clearer display is expected to add momentum.
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/ 2 September 2008
Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda, resigned on Monday in a move that threatens to plunge the country into political turmoil.
All it takes is a short train ride to be transported from the affluent streets of central Osaka to the grinding poverty of Japan’s biggest slum.
Sony will launch a new PSP in October with a high-resolution screen and a built-in microphone that enables it to be used as a telephone.
Japan is to start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation’s popular ”wallet phone”.
A Marxist novel written in 1929 has climbed to the top of Japan’s bestseller list.
Once a staple in homes and restaurants, sake is being squeezed out of the affections of the average drinker by imported wine and shochu.
In Kamikatsu, Japan, waste must be separated into no fewer than 34 categories before being taken to a recycling centre.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda vows to fight price hikes as he tries to breathe new life into his government after a Cabinet reshuffle.
Rescue teams searched in dense fog and rain on Thursday for victims of a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that left more than 120 people injured.
A strong earthquake measuring 6,8 on the Richter scale shook northern Japan early on Thursday, just a month after a deadly tremor in the same area.
A strong earthquake measuring 6,6 on the Richter scale shook northern Japan on Saturday, triggering a minor tsunami, the meteorological agency said.
Japan blesses Nicole Johnston with good fortune and a new reverence for vegetables.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says talks to end seven years of tortuous global trade negotiations were ”at a minute to midnight”.
The response of the big developing countries showed, however, that the verbal gymnastics were not entirely convincing.
After discussing famine in Africa, the peckish politicians and five spouses took on four bite-size amuse-bouches to tickle their palates.
Even by the standards of international trade and diplomacy, the Group of Eight’s language can be unusual, and sometimes downright weird.
So, what did British Prime Minister Gordon Brown do that meant his Japanese hosts at the G8 summit placed him at the far end of the table?
The world’s biggest polluters agreed on Wednesday on the need for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but held back from setting specific targets.
G8 nations said on Tuesday they would work towards a target of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with other participants in UN talks.
A Japanese woman escaped unhurt from a knife-wielding thief this week after the mother calmed him down with a cup of tea and a chat.
Leaders of the G8 powers warned on Tuesday that soaring oil and food prices pose a ”serious challenge” to world economic growth.
African leaders on Monday urged the G8 nations to tackle spiking oil and food prices, warning the crisis may aggravate an already desperate plight.
AU Commission chief Jean Ping was rushed to hospital on Monday in Japan where he was attending a summit with the G8 powers.
G8 leaders sat down to lunch at a hotel with African heads of state on Monday as activists accused the rich nations’ club of backpedalling on pledges.
Prospects that the G8 would reach an agreement to how to fight global warming at their summit dimmed on Sunday as leaders began arriving in Japan.
It has been more than a year since Shinzo Abe stood outside the Windsor Hotel, gazed at the lake below and, as one official said, ”fell in love”.
US President George Bush has vowed not to repeat one of his previous mistakes as he heads to his last Group of Eight (G8) summit.
Group of Eight (G8) leaders could well cobble together some agreement next week on goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Teenage girls are flocking to enter the ‘floating world’ in a return to traditional Japanese culture.
A Japanese firm has begun accepting reservations for couples who really want to make the big leap — by blasting into space to exchange wedding vows.
Miehina has barely taken a dozen steps along a Kyoto street before the audio backdrop to her every public move comes to life.