Oh, What a Feeling: Watching Toyota Flunk for Once The New York Times | Life, goes the cliché, is just high school writ large, and in the senior class of automakers, Toyota was the straight-A student who wrecked the curve for everyone. Name the test — Consumer Reports ratings, customer satisfaction surveys, sales figures — and the company aced it, y...
Are people getting away with murder? Daily Yomiuri | Could the nation's autopsy system be so wanting that people are getting away with murder? | In 2009, about 160,000 people in Japan died suspicious, unnatural deaths. But autopsies were performed in only about 10 percent of these cases, according to...
National Archives to ban photography in exhibit The News & Observer | WASHINGTON -- Tourists will soon be banned from taking photographs or video at the National Archives main exhibit hall to help protect the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. | A rule posted in Monday's Federal Regist...
Japan court rejects tobacco lawsuit, notes dangers Wtop By YURI KAGEYAMA | AP Business Writer | TOKYO (AP) - A five-year legal battle against Japan Tobacco by two former smokers and a widow has ended with damage demands thrown out, but a Japanese court for the first time clearly acknowledged the health ri...
Court rejects lawsuit against Japan Tobacco by 2 smokers Business Report | Submit your comment | A five-year legal battle against Japan Tobacco by two former smokers and a widow has ended with damage demands thrown out, but a Japanese court for the first time clearly acknowledged the health risks of cigarettes. | "...
Japan court rejects tobacco lawsuit, notes dangers Syracuse | (AP) - TOKYO - A five-year legal battle against Japan Tobacco by two former smokers and a widow has ended with damage demands thrown out, but a Japanese court for the first time clearly acknowledged the health risks of cigarettes. | "We were able t...
Court denies Japan gov't responsibility for attack by U.S. sailor+ Breitbart YOKOHAMA, Jan. 19 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Yokohama District Court on Tuesday turned down a damages suit filed by a taxi driver against the Japanese government over injuries he sustained after being assaulted by a U.S. sailor in 2006. | In the decisio...
Toyota Recalling Prius In Japan For Brakes CBS News Toyota Recalling New Prius, Other Models In Japan For Braking Problems | Font size Print E-mail Share | (AP) (AP) TOKYO (AP) - Toyota is recalling about 170,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan for braking problems and will soon disclose its global plans for a fix as the automaker scrambles to repair damage to its reputation from a spate of safety proble...
Beijing beefs up cyber-warfare capacity Asia Times | By Willy Lam | While the furor over cyber-attacks against Google has lapsed somewhat, the Sino-American confrontation over the larger issue of Internet security and global digital warfare is expected to intensify in the near future. | This is particularly in light of the deterioration of bilateral ties due to issues ranging from the value of the ...
Toyota recalling Prius in Japan for brakes The Wichita Eagle TOKYO - Toyota is recalling about 170,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan for braking problems and will soon disclose its global plans for a fix as the automaker scrambles to repair damage to its reputation from a spate of safety problems. | Toyota's president Akio Toyoda will hold a news conference at the automaker's Tokyo office later Tuesday to outli...
