Okayama City

Winning chef coming to Honolulu Aug. 28

honoluluadvertiser.com     Aug 20, 2008          

Chef Seiya Masahara will be on hand for "The Joy of Sake," 6 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Hawai'i Convention Center. The "Iron Chef" challenger (who beat Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto) oversees Hakkei at Yubara in Japan's Okayama...                    

Japanese woman loses breast in hospital blunder

physorg.com     Aug 19, 2008   12 related          

A hospital in Japan said Tuesday that doctors mistakenly removed a healthy woman's left breast because of a mix-up in samples from tests for breast cancer. The woman, in her 40s, last year went for a mammogram at a hospital in...                    

Imagine if this happened here ...

typepad.com     Aug 19, 2008          

OKAYAMA, Japan - A hospital in the city of Okayama said Tuesday it mistakenly removed the entire left breast from a healthy woman last year as it mixed up the identification number for her test sample with that of a cancer...                    

Cool Japanese websites: Okayama Ichibangai

japanmarketingnews.com     Aug 11, 2008          

This cool japanese website from Okayama Ichibangai (the shopping mall adjacent to Okayama Station in western Japan) employs a delightfully playful map that lets you click on structures to learn about the mall's tenants....                    

Essay winners get trip to Guam

guampdn.com     Jul 31, 2008          

Masako Watanabe/Pacific Daily News/mwatanabe@guamp Winners: Setsuna Tawa, 12, front, and others watch from a tower as a jet takes off from A.B. Won Pat Guam International Airport yesterday. Tawa was among six Japanese students...                    

Tarbosaurus Takes Japan for Lunch [Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)]

scienceblogs.com     Jul 25, 2008          

tags: dinosaurs, Tarbosaurus bataar, paleontology, fossils, Tyrannosaurs rex The newly unveiled fossil skeleton of the juvenile Tarbosaurus bataar in its protective jacket. Discovered in 2006, a near-perfect complete skeleton...                    

Complete Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed

go.com     Jul 24, 2008   68 related          

Young dinosaur skeletons are hard to find in good condition because they often are destroyed by weather decay or because they were torn apart by predators. The latest find would be a major step toward discovering the growth and...                    

Her drive to heal

honoluluadvertiser.com     Jul 23, 2008          

Gloria Tumbaga has vivid childhood memories of homelessness, often living on the beach or out of a car. Raised by a single mother who was a victim of domestic violence, Tumbaga became an orphan at 8, when her mother died of...                    

Crime › Man found stabbed at home in Okayama

japantoday.com     Jul 8, 2008          

Tuesday 08th July, 07:15 AM JST OKAYAMA — A 63-year-old man was found stabbed at his home last Saturday in Okayama City, police said Monday. The body of Narihiro Ishida, 63, was found by a relative in the corridor of his house...                    

Diesel “Okayama Project” Denim Collection

individualsole.com     Jun 11, 2008          

San Francisco’s Diesel has added to their Denim Gallery Collection with two pairs of jeans that will please the most selective denim afficianado. Made with 14oz denim woven on the famed looms of Okayama, Japan and hand dyed....                    

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