| |   G-8 leaders hope Greece remains in Eurozone
Tweet CAMP DAVID, Maryland: Leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations expressed hope Saturday that Greece will remain in the eurozone as they huddled for a shirt-sleeves summit aimed at keeping Europe's ...
73-year-old Japanese betters record to remain oldest woman atop Everest
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetKATHMANDU: At an age when most women keep busy playing with their grandchildren or take to gardening, a 73-year-old Japanese pensioner on Saturday bettered her decade-long record to re...
Japan train operator opens a new landmark
| Tokyo: The Tokyo Skytree, twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, opens this week as Japanese train operators counter an ageing population by building malls, offices and tourist attractions. | The 634-metre (2,080...
Chinese Chief of Security Seems to Keep Grip on Power
| BEIJING — The Chinese security chief, Zhou Yongkang, completed a prominent tour of the volatile region of Xinjiang last week, a sign that he still had a firm hold on his post and wielded power despite t...
Asian stocks wipe out this year's gains
| Singapore: Asian stocks fell, with a regional index posting its worst week in almost eight months, as Europe's debt crisis worsened, US economic data missed estimates and Chinese home prices and investment de...
Kobe Bryant lets his guard down after mismatch with Derek Fisher
When Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher were teammates, Bryant used to joke about the lopsided results of their one-on-one games at the Lakers practice facility. | On Friday evening, he proved that he wasn't just bra...
DPJ may try to extend Diet till year's end to get tax hike OK
| Executives of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan are considering a long extension for the current Diet session, including all the way to the end of the year, according to sources. | The legislative session ...
Government reaches out to North Korea for abduction talks
| A government official close to Jin Matsubara, the minister in charge of addressing the abduction of Japanese by North Korea, has sent a message to Pyongyang seeking talks with officials of the Workers' Party ...
Private rail lines want Diet ranks to pay up
| Both the Lower and Upper houses have failed for the last 20 years to respond to requests from an association of private railways to pay for the free train passes member companies provide to lawmakers. | The A...
Water supply cut off over formaldehyde
| Five water-purification plants in Chiba, Saitama and Gunma prefectures halted some filtration operations Friday and Saturday after hazardous formaldehyde was detected, stirring fears the contamination came fr...
Noda, EU leaders unite on tackling debt crisis
| WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has agreed with European Union leaders to work together in addressing Europe's sovereign debt crisis, a Japanese official said. | Noda was quoted as telling Eu...
'Alien' actress at home with a robot
| 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 ...
Poverty stalks the land — and its long-term victims will be today's young
| Open any Japanese newspaper, listen to the radio, watch television or keep tabs on any other form of media, social or otherwise, and you are bound to find references to this country's "rapidly aging society."...
Japan faces a long, hot, nuclear-free summer
| Is Japan — and particularly the Kansai region — going to have enough electric power to get it through peak summer demand? The Meteorological Agency's three-month projection for May through July, p...
Narai's nostalgic delights revisited
| I was thinking about Narai today. It sprang to mind, unbidden, while I was driving somewhere else, and all day visions of the little streets and old buildings haunted me. Memories double-exposed over the plac...
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