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Just a year into her marriage, Emi Yoshida realized she might not survive it. Her violent, drug-addict husband had tried to strangle her, then beat her unconscious outside their Tokyo home. When she came to, he was threatening...
BZ Engineering Briefings has announced that profiles of 55 of the world’s leading pump manufacturers are now available for purchase online. The profiles, which are drawn from the 2009 Edition of the Pump Industry Briefing, are...
By Hana Kusumoto and Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Saturday, November 7, 2009 TOKYO — A U.S. military security contractor was killed last week in a drunken-driving crash in northern Japan, local Japanese...
Tetsuhito Fukushimaa, Xiaodong Tanb, Yunwen Luoc, Hideyuki Kandaa aDepartment of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima City, Japan; bSchool of Public Health, Wuhan...
Struggling Japan Airlines Corp. said Thursday it will cut 61 weekly round-trip passenger flights on 10 international routes and three cargo flights on one route from December to January to help improve business performance. The...
Friday 06th November, 09:07 AM JST FUKUSHIMA — Police on Thursday arrested a 68-year-old man after he stood on the road and flashed a female plainclothes police officer who was riding in an unmarked patrol car in Nihonmatsu...
By BETTINA WASSENER Nov 04 2009 , HONG KONG The World Bank on Wednesday became the latest major institution to raise its forecast for growth in China — a reflection of that country’s rapid rebound this year — though it...
The Japanese government has announced on Monday that it will award Joe Hisaishi, the composer internationally known for his work on most of the films from Studio Ghibli, with a Medal of Honour. The full name of Hisaishi's award...
The US dollar remained under pressure this morning after the release of the ISM Non-manufacturing index which came in at 50.6 just below expectations and ahead of this morning’s policy decision from the Federal Reserve which is...
Downside risks to Japan's economy are diminishing now that emerging economies look set to post higher growth, Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa said Wednesday. "Based on a high possibility that emerging countries and those...
