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In 1967, the late Kohei Miyazaki published a book called ‘‘Maboroshi no Yamataikoku’’ (phantom state) about an ancient realm in Japan during the Yayoi period (around 400 BC-300 AD), which set off a national controversy over whether Yamataikoku was located in Kyushu.
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The ‘‘rather rosy’’ start for Japan in 2008, as a senior Foreign Ministry official described it recently, with the handshakes and applause over commitments to climate change and African development in key summits hosted here had soon lost momentum with Japan’s domestic political chaos and the global economic crisis.
Japan on Wednesday urged Israel to immediately halt airstrikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Tokyo Tower stood for a dream of the future, but that dream is gone. Tokyo Tower offers no more dreams, just as Japan has no more dreams.
At the age of 30, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a Tokyo designer to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen monasteries in Japan and head temple of the Soto sect of Buddhism.
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. may change its corporate structure to a holding company as early as 2010 to expand its life insurance and asset management businesses, Nikkei English News reported, without citing anyone.
A bullet train on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line was delayed for about 20 minutes Wednesday, affecting some 1,100 passengers, after two men tried to open its doors by hand immediately after its departure from Hiroshima Station, West Japan Railway Co said.
Japan defender Atsuto Uchida is set to commit his future to Kashima Antlers and sign a new deal that will keep him with the J-League champions until the summer of 2013, it was learned Wednesday.
Japan’s largest online shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc said Tuesday it expects to report about 65.64 billion yen in appraisal losses for the year ending Dec 31, mainly from its stake in Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc.
A visitor looks at a minivan at Nissan’s headquarters in Tokyo. FILE/TARO FUJIMOTO The number of cars owned by Japanese people in 2007 was around 79 million, which was less than the number for 2006. For the car industry in Japan, it was the first year since World War II in which car ownership declined, weekly magazine Shukan Asahi (Dec 22) reports.