Japan's Mount Fuji may be sitting on a large, active fault that could trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, changing the shape of the mountain and devastating nearby communities, the education ministry said. (more…)
(Fixes typo in last paragraph) TOKYO, May 10 (Reuters) – Japan's Mount Fuji may be sitting on a large, active fault that could trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, changing the shape of the mountain and devastating nearby communities, the education ministry said on Thursday. (more…)
If you harbor any doubts that the parameters of U.S. trade policy are defined by a few politically-important domestic industries, take a look at the debate over whether Japan should be allowed to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations. (read more here…)
A group claiming to be backed by veterans has gone too far in a viral Web video that portrays the president as a glory hog after Osama bin Laden’s death. We cannot dispute the video’s larger point: That President Obama is using Bin Laden’s killing to score political points. But … More >> (read...
Tokyo, May 11 (Xinhua-ANI): Panasonic Corp. announced on Friday that it has recorded its worst-ever group net loss of 772.17 billion yen (9.67 billion U.S. dollars) for the financial year ending in Ma (read more…)
TOKYO – A day after Sony posted record annual loss of 457 billion yen ($5.7 billion), shares of Japanese electronics major Friday tumbled more than 7 per cent to a 32-year low amid investor fears that (read more…)
Hilton has unveiled a new wedding concept, Hilton Weddings Japan, set to raise the benchmark for wedding services offered in the country. Partnering with renowned celebrity model, Natsuki Kato, and … (read more…)
The Yomiuri Shimbun FUKUSHIMA–Wild Japanese monkeys wearing special collars fitted with dosimeters and Global Positioning System devices will be used to measure radiation levels in the … (read more…)
YOKOHAMA — Nissan Motor Co. on Friday posted a consolidated net profit of ¥341.43 billion for 2011, surpassing Toyota Motor Corp. for the first time ever on strong global sales despite … (read more…)
TOKYO, Japan – More than 60 people have committed suicides related to last year’s 9.0 quake and tsunami, the Japanese government says.The data comes as a family prepares to file the first lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Co. over the suicide of a 58-year-old woman who set herself on fire in wake of...
Mitt Romney is used to doing most of the talking when he’s out scouting for votes, but this time, he mainly just listened. For more than an hour last month, the presumptive Republican nominee met with about a dozen prominent social conservatives who have been openly wary about his bid for the White House....
Everything you need to get up to speed on the big story of the day Paddled. Forced to eat dog food or human vomit. Branded with a heated wire hanger. Thrown in a kiddie pool of human vomit, feces, semen, and rotten food. Deprived of sleep. Beaten until organ failure or death. These aren’t...
The international automotive icon who rose from a bed-ridden childhood in Texas to build one of the most iconic sports cars ever and become a world-champion racer died Thursday at the age of 89 after a lengthy illness. (read the story…)
A Chicago jury on Friday convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors’ described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband. (read the story…)
Perhaps the most surprising thing about a man who was able to move trillion dollar markets in a single bet, is that we know so little about him. Especially when everyone has known what he was up to for weeks. (read the story…)
The two Tennessee sisters who were rescued from the man who murdered their mother and older sister have been released from the hospital and will soon undergo questioning by police to find out what happened to them during the past two weeks, according to the FBI. (read the story…)
A federal judge today rejected defense lawyers’ arguments that the case against John Edwards should be thrown out because there “was not one ounce of evidence” that the former presidential candidate broke the law by using nearly $1 million in donations to hide his mistress. (read the story…)
Newly-released documentary film footage from 2011 shows Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker describing a “divide and conquer” strategy for going after the state’s public employee unions that would begin with going after their collective bargaining rights. (read the story…)
The mother of Florida shooting victim Trayvon Martin appears in a Mother’s Day gun control video produced by an advocacy group led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (read the story…)
We’d totally love Edward Klein’s story of how Bill Clinton called Obama an “amateur” and told his wife to quit the amazing job she was doing as Secretary of State if, you know, the Clintons weren’t denying the whole thing and Klein hadn’t already written another Clinton-challenged book in the past. (read the story…)
The contentious trial of the man accused of killing dozens in a rampage in Norway was interrupted Friday when a supposed relative of one of the victims stood up and threw a shoe at the confessed murderer. “You killer! You killed my brother! Go to hell!” the man shouted. (read the story…)
Japanese companies' cutting-edge technology is a source of industrial competitiveness and domestic growth. The outflow of technology to foreign companies must be stopped. Nippon Steel Corp. has filed ….. (more here…)
BANGKOK, May 11 (Reuters) – Tokyo rubber futures tumbled 3.5percent to a four-month low on Friday as the euro zone's debtcrisis and weak Chinese economic data spurred worries about afall in rubber demand … (read more…)
