June 23, 2012
SAITAMA--Celebrations were held at stations along the route of the Tohoku Shinkansen on June 23 as the bullet train celebrated its 30th anniversary of linking the Tokyo metropolitan area with the Tohoku region.
June 23, 2012
The Tokyo District Court on June 22 ordered Nikon Corp. to allow a photographer to use its venue for a “comfort women” exhibition that had been called off last month amid escalating protests.
June 23, 2012
One of the most effective crime fighters these days never sleeps, can compare huge numbers of images in an instant and has a photographic memory. And thousands of them have been deployed to train stations across the nation.
June 23, 2012
HIROSHIMA--A historic landscape dating to the Edo Period (1603-1867) will remain undisturbed in the Tomonoura bay area after the Hiroshima Prefecture governor canceled a public works project.
June 23, 2012
Nobuo and Fumiko Suzuki have one of the few commercial plum orchards left in Tokyo.
June 22, 2012
In a gesture to combat global warming, more than 16,000 offices and tourist sites across Japan went dark on the evening of June 21.
June 22, 2012
Dental implant surgery, a procedure that most people would prefer to delay, is not always as painless as dentists would have us believe.
June 20, 2012
SVOBODNY, Russia--In the northeastern Chinese city of Heihe, buildings along the Amur River are brightly illuminated at night, while lights are dim in Russia’s Blagoveshchensk on the opposite bank.
June 20, 2012
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on June 19 told Chugoku Electric Power Co. that its maximum estimate for an earthquake striking around the Shimane nuclear power plant is too low.
June 20, 2012
Japan boasts striking coastline, but perhaps none is as hauntingly beautiful as the area called Sanriku in the northeastern Tohoku region.
June 20, 2012
Vladimir Putin's black Lab, Connie, is about to have some company at the Russian president's residence of Novo-Ogaryovo in Moscow.
June 19, 2012
For energy-ravenous Japan, a tiny inlet in the Russian Far East offers a chance to kill two birds with one stone.
June 19, 2012
The devastation from last year’s natural disasters and the failure to prevent the Fukushima nuclear accident have led to a huge loss of trust in scientists, a science ministry report showed on June 19.
June 19, 2012
The Agency for Cultural Affairs has put six cultural treasures stolen from temples in Japan on an international "wanted list," fearing they may have been spirited overseas.
June 19, 2012
Sequoia of the United States has overtaken and zipped past Japan's "K computer" as the planet's fastest supercomputer, according to rankings released June 18.
June 19, 2012
Police on June 19 arrested four people on suspicion of fraud in a scandal involving more than 100 billion yen ($1.2 billion) in missing pension funds that shattered confidence in investment advisers.
June 18, 2012
A seal spotted on the coast at Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, may be the first of its species seen on Japan’s main island of Honshu.
June 18, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--A shallow avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley may not have killed four Japanese climbers, but the slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet (30 meters) deep, the National Park Service said on June 17.
June 17, 2012
Among those shaking their heads at the June 16 decision by the central government to resume operations at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture are evacuees in Fukushima Prefecture as well as citizens groups urging energy conservation.
June 17, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--Four Japanese climbers are presumed dead after they were swept up by a powerful avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley, North America's tallest peak, the National Park Service said on June 16.