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Saturday 07th November, 05:12 AM JST NAGANO — Miki Ando came in second in the women’s short program at the NHK Trophy, the fourth event of the Grand Prix series, on Friday. Reigning world bronze medalist Ando, who won the...
East Japan Railway Co. will offer discounts of up to 49 percent for New Year's travelers to compete with the 1,000-yen flat-rate expressway tolls. The offer will be the first sweeping discount by JR East for a busy season such...
TOKYO, Nov. 6 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The cumulative number of people infected with influenza, mostly the new H1N1 strain of influenza A, since early July reached an estimated 5.85 million as of last Sunday and is poised to top the 6...
– When Hideki Matsui lifted up the trophy for the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) award, it was a moment felt deeply by Masanori Murakami. Murakami was the first Japanese player brought in t...
Spinal mobility and back extensor strength (BES) are important in determining quality of life (QOL) for elderly people. However, the impact of spinal factors on falls remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to clarify...
AST-120 Also Shown to Reduce Ammonia and Brain Swelling in Rat Model of Cirrhosis BOSTON, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that AST-120 (spherical carbon adsorbent) was shown to reduce the...
"The Lounge Lizards and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in a Japanese brothel," is how acclaimed U.K. DJ and record-label owner Gilles Peterson has described funky jazz sextuplet Soil & "Pimp" Sessions. Formed around 2001 by...
Posted on: Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 18:05 CST CHICAGO, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- PARO Robots U.S. Inc. and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) have announced that order fulfillment and delivery of the therapeutic...
TOKYO — It looks like a scene from Robocop or one of the Terminator movies: A human steps into a sleek robot suit and is miraculously transformed, suddenly capable of astonishing feats of strength. So much of the technology...
Forget the salarymen, Japan’s new ‘herbivore’ generation of males believe that life is far more important than work BY PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON The London Times Yasuo Takeuchi makes an improbable radical. Skinny, wearing jeans,...
