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Australia warns Japan over legal action against whaling
Sydney - Australia will take legal action against Japan if it continues whaling in the Southern Ocean after November, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday. The pledge came after Rudd was criticized for not honouring a campaign promise before the Nov...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

New Zealander who boarded Japanese whaler says he's happy to stay
Wellington - Anti-whaling protestor Peter Bethune, who climbed onto the Japanese ship Shonan Maru II on Monday in Antarctic waters, is happy to stay onboard and be taken to Japan, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Friday. Bethune, a Ne...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Japanese slider disqualified, Britain's Williams leads
Whistler, Canada - Japan's Nozomi Komuro was disqualified before the start of Thursday's Olympic women's skeleton competition because her sled did not have an official sticker. The control sticker was found to be missing in a standard check 35 minute...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Sports ]

Japanese inflation falls in January
Tokyo - Japan's key consumer price index (CPI) fell 1.3 per cent in January year on year, making it the 11th consecutive month of decline, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Friday. The CPI, which excludes volatile fresh food pr...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Osaka's vibrant Korea Town attracts Japanese visitors - Feature
Osaka, Japan - Long in the shadow of Osaka's high-rise, high-tech buildings, the city's Korea Town now appears to be one of the few vibrant places in Japan's economic downturn. The once-isolated community in a drab quarter of the largest city in west...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

New Zealander who boarded Japanese whaler accused of piracy
Wellington - A New Zealander who secretly climbed aboard a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic at night is likely to be taken to Japan to face a court, a spokesman for Tokyo's Institute of Cetacean Research said on Tuesday. The Japanese accused Pe...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Report: Toyota to recall 2010 Prius over brakes in Japan and US
Tokyo - Toyota Motor Corp is to recall more than 270,000 of its 2010 Prius hybrid cars after increasing complaints of braking problems, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported Monday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Toyota decided it need...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Cars (General) ]

Bank of Japan keeps key interest rate unchanged
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan decided Thursday to hold its key interest rate steady at 0.1 per cent by unanimous vote as expected and kept its overall assessment of the Japanese economy. At a two-day policy meeting, the BoJ's evaluation remained unchange...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Honda to recall 437,763 vehicles over faulty air bags
Tokyo - Honda Motor Co said Wednesday it would recall 437,763 vehicles globally over a problem with the driver's airbag inflator. Honda had recalled a total of about 514,000 vehicles for the same problem in 2008 and 2009. Japan's second-largest autom...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Cars (General) ]

Japanese husbands get help to express their love - Feature
Tokyo - For many Japanese men, it is still hard to say I love you to their wife, upcoming Valentine's Day or no. But help is now at hand from the Japan Aisaika - or devoted husband - organization (JAO), with products and events to encourage tradi...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Homes (General) ]

Australians prefer foreign-made cars
Sydney - Imports from Japan, South Korea and now Thailand have overtaken sales of Australian-made cars, figures from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries released Sunday showed. The three local carmakers - Toyota Motor Corp, GM Holden Ltd and...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Cars (General) ]

Japan's exports surge in January, Asian demand rises - Update
Tokyo - Asian demand helped Japan's exports surge 40.9 per cent in January from a year earlier to 4.9 trillion yen (54.37 billion dollars), the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. It was the second straight monthly increase as shipments of vehicles, aut...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Japan's exports surge 40 per cent in January, Asian demand rises
Tokyo - Asian demand helped Japan's exports surge 40.9 per cent in January from a year earlier to 4.9 trillion yen (54.37 billion dollars), the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. It was the second straight monthly increase as shipments of vehicles, aut...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Whales waylay Australia's good relations with Japan
Sydney - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's surprise threat to take legal action to stop Japan killing whales in Antarctica has drained goodwill from the first visit to Australia by Tokyo's new top diplomat. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, in the job for ju...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Activists doubt Australia's threats against Japanese whaling
Sydney - Conservation group Sea Shepherd on Sunday scorned Australia's warning that it would take legal action if Japan continues whaling in the Southern Ocean after November. The promise was given last week by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is smart...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Japan says its whaling complies with international accord - Summary
Tokyo - Japan is conducting its whaling in the Antarctic Ocean under an international agreement, a government spokesman claimed Monday. I believe research whaling is what we have conducted with approval and under an agreement in the international co...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Japan says its whaling complies with international accord
Tokyo - Japan is conducting its whaling in the Antarctic Ocean under an international agreement, a government spokesman claimed Monday. I believe research whaling is what we have conducted with approval and under an agreement in the international co...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

New Zealand not keen on taking Japan to court over whaling
Wellington- New Zealand is not keen on backing Australia in taking international legal action against Japan to stop whaling in the Antarctic, Prime Minister John Key indicated on Monday. Any court case is likely to take a long time to resolve, he t...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Philippines sells 1.1-billion-dollar Samurai bonds
Manila - The Philippines Tuesday sold 10-year Samurai bonds worth 1.1 billion dollars to help plug a budget deficit that reached 6.3 billion dollars last year, the government said. The yen-denominated bonds were 95-per-cent guaranteed by the Japan ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Japan's exports surge in January, Asian demand rises - Summary
Tokyo - Asian demand helped Japan's exports surge 40.9 per cent in January from a year earlier to 4.9 trillion yen (54.37 billion dollars), the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. It was the second straight monthly increase as shipments of vehicles in J...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Strong quake hits Japan's Okinawa island - Summary
Tokyo - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck the southern Japanese island of Okinawa early Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. A local police official told the Kyodo News Agency that authorities had recei...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Quake hits Japan's Okinawa island - 2nd Update
Tokyo - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck Okinawa Prefecture, about 1,500 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, early Saturday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. A local police official told Kyodo News Agency that they had...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

7.0 magnitude earthquake hits off Japan's coast - Update
Washington - The US government has reported that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan. The earthquake occurred at 2031 GMT Friday and was centred 81 kilometres east of Japan's southern island of Okinawa, the US Geological Surv...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

Japanese inflation falls; industrial output up in January - Summary
Tokyo - Japan's key consumer price index fell 1.3 per cent in January from a year earlier to its lowest level in about 17 years, the government said Friday, adding to concerns that enduring deflation could hamper a recovery of the world's second-larg...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Japanese stocks rise sharply as more monetary easing expected
Tokyo - Stocks in Tokyo climbed more than 2 per cent in Friday morning trading as the Nikkei business daily reported the Bank of Japan (BoJ) would likely consider more monetary easing through April. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average gained 209.9...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]



 
 

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