North Korea 'resuming work' on nuclear reactor The Daily Telegraph Satellite imagery has revealed that North Korea has resumed work on a light water reactor that analysts believe indicates Pyongyang's intention to push ahead with efforts to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. | The Yongbyon nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea in November 2010 (left) and in Ap...
Climate Change: Its Effects On Migration, Conflict In Northern Ghana Joy Online Scientific evidence available to various research institutions in Ghana have showed that the three regions of the North – comprising Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions – are considered the poorest areas in the country and also have the most degraded environments. Similarly, they are among r...
'Alien' actress at home with a robot Japan Times | Even today in the performing arts in Japan, gaijin (lit. "aliens"), as foreigners are called, are still often presented like something to be gawped at in a Victorian freak show. | It was a bit like that when a new play called "Sayonara (Goodbye)" p...
Exploring the pathologies of Japan's youth Japan Times | A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs, edited by Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto and Tuukka Toivonen. Routledge: Abingdon, U.K., 2012, 191 pp., $51.95 (paperback) | New buzzwords about some youth pathology or trend are frequently cat...
A tour de Japan Japan Times | Japan on Foot, by Mary King. | Fine Line Press, 2012, 236 pp., $23.00 (paperback) | The Japanese like to think of themselves as a small people living within snug, but territorially confined boundaries. | Scale, of course, is relative. If you co...
Day care workers deserve better Japan Times | Day care centers — known as hoiku-jo or hoiku-en — take care of one of the country's most precious resources — its children. However, the failure of the central government to provide sufficient subsidies has led to chronic shortag...
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The Children of Iraq: "Was the Price Worth It?" GlobalResearch | The following is a presentation given in the Dialogue sessions of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, May 2012. | | “…Line up the bodies of the children, the thousands o...
Nikkei down sharply as many markets take holiday Dayton Daily News | BANGKOK — Japan's Nikkei 225 fell Tuesday amid a stronger yen, but elsewhere markets headed up in holiday-thinned trading amid data showing factory output in China growing ...
Japanese woman, 73, scales Everest for the second time Hartford Courant | KATHMANDU (Reuters) - For the second time, a 73-year-old Japanese woman has become the world's oldest woman to climb Mount Everest, repeating her own record set 10 years ago, the company that organized the climb said on Saturday. | Tamae Watanabe r...
4th annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival announces programme IMDb | 4th Toronto's Shinsedai Cinema Festival has just announced the programme for 2012 and it a looks like Pinky violence, and sex galore, are the name of the game, as director Yu Irie's film - 'Ringing in Their Ears' will have its Canadian premiere as ...
The Little Icon The Hindu The Delhi I grew up in was just a quiet town with big wide roads and little traffic. You could play a full game of cricket on the street without a car disturbing you. In the early 1980s, the total number of cars made in India hovered around 40,000. T...
Why A Japanese E-Commerce Giant Is The Lead Investor In Pinterest Business Insider | Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is the lead investor in Pinterest's $100 million round. | Most people in the United States have never heard of Rakuten. And that's a big reason the company is trying to get in good with Pinterest. | Pinterest will be able to drive more traffic to Rakuten's sites, and it will help Raku...
Youths in Philippines protest against Lady Gaga Herald Tribune | MANILA, Philippines - Christian young people in the Philippines protested Saturday against upcoming concerts by Lady Gaga despite organizers' assurances that her performances would not threaten morality. | About 200 Christian youths marched in Manila for a second straight day, holding placards urging the pop singer to "respect our faith, stop the...
