Archive for July, 2008
The Hiroshima District Court on Thursday ruled it illegal that the state rejected healthcare benefits to two Japanese, who survived the 1945 atomic bombings and later moved to Brazil, because they did not visit Japan to apply for the benefits.
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Japan’s population grew slightly for the first time in three years in the year to March 31, coming to 127,066,178, up by 12,707 from the previous year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Thursday.
Weathernews Inc said Thursday it will launch a joint service with SK Telecom Co, South Korea’s largest mobile phone operator, on Sept 1, allowing users in Japan and South Korea to exchange weather and tourism information on a cell phone website.
The latest installment in the popular ‘‘Indiana Jones’’ movie series has puzzled some viewers and critics in Japan as it includes a segment showing a nuclear bomb test which they say could give young people the wrong impression about the dangers of radiation and the destructive power of nuclear weapons.
Asia Media Co of China, the first mainland Chinese company that went public in Japan last year, is highly likely to be delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after the company’s auditor refused to certify the Chinese company’s annual financial statements filed with authorities on Thursday.
Japan became the world’s No. 2 country in terms of patent application filing in 2006, giving up its first place to the United States for the first time in about 40 years, the World Intellectual Property Organization said in a report released Thursday.
Don’t expect a sequel for Sony Japan Studios’ quirky PSP and PSN puzzle title echochrome, two of the creative folk behind the game told Eurogamer today.
The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday that the May 22 fire on the aircraft carrier George Washington, scheduled for deployment in Japan shortly, is likely to have been caused by unauthorized smoking that ignited improperly stored combustible materials.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Wednesday launched a no-tie, no-jacket energy-saving initiative based on Japan’s ‘‘Cool Biz’’ casual attire campaign, a U.N. official said.
U.S. President George W Bush said Wednesday he has ordered that recognition of South Korea’s ownership of a pair of rocky islets that Seoul controls but Japan also claims as its own be reinstated in a U.S. federal naming agency’s database.