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...
Temples offering virtual visits to graves The News & Observer | TOKYO -- As the nation of Japan grays and people gravitate to big cities leaving their hometowns behind, new services that enable people to see live images of the graves of their loved ones online or access photographs of their loved ones via the N...
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...
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...
The Tiger and the Viper Inquirer | 'Duty is heavier than a mountain | While death, lighter than a feather' | —Emperor Hirohito, 1945 | TO THE Asians, the tiger is a fierce animal personifies war. It is also given as title to an army's highest-ranking general. The most famous one was...
Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range The New York Times | Shares traded within a tight range Tuesday, a year after major market indexes hit 12-year lows. | With little in the way of economic reports or earnings to help drive shares higher, investors are taking a breather after major indexes rose the past few weeks. | Stocks have surged over the last year. The Dow Jones industrial average is up 61.2 perc...
Arjun Rampal to fight with Shahrukh again The Siasat Daily | Mumbai, March 10: By now its common knowledge that Shahrukh Khan and Arjun Rampal are close friends. The duo have starred together in super-hit films like Don and Om Shanti Om. Shahrukh even made a fleeting appearance in Arjun's home production I See You that released a few years ago. | Now SRK and Arjun Rampal will once again be seen together in...
Mystery kangaroo in Japanese mountains The Daily Telegraph Australia | PEOPLE in a Japanese mountain region reported a number of kangaroo sightings, leading journalists to attempt to stalk the marsupials, AFP reports. | The descriptions given by the apparent eyewitnesses seem close enough. For years they spoke of a beige animal with large ears, three to five feet tall, that stood by the roadside and then hops away. ...
