How A Last-Minute Decision Led To The Nuking Of Nagasaki
Businessinsider.com: Days after Hiroshima, a deadlier atomic bomb was bound for an armaments factory in Kokura – until bad weather forced a change of plan. In an extract from his new […]
Japan report finds Hong Kong women have overtaken Japanese as longest living
Japanese women are no longer the world’s longest living, their longevity pushed down in part by last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, according to a government report Thursday. The top of the global life expectancy rankings now belongs to Hong Kong women. Read more
Woman, 73, sets new Everest record
A 73-year-old Japanese woman has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world’s highest mountain. Read more
Fiji strongman snubbed by Japan
Source: channelnewsasia.com TOKYO — Japan has not invited Fijian strongman Voreqe Bainimarama to a major Pacific leaders’ forum next week, the foreign ministry said Friday, amid concerns his reforms have […]
Japan’s women are increasingly taking the future into their own hands
Sara Blakely’s story is inspirational. The 41-year-old Floridian began her working life as a door-to-door fax-machine salesperson. Then one day she looked in the mirror — but not at her face. She realized that she needed underwear that didn’t show lines and held in her wobbly bits. This led to […]
An Arabian knight: A Japanese scholar’s fascination with the Middle East forged enduring Saudi-Japanese relations
By KHALID ALTOWELLI, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM Published: May 3, 2012 21:20 Updated: May 4, 2012 13:35 Ninety-five-year-old Takashi Hayashi of Japan can’t remember when the Middle East and all things Arab didn’t […]
China, Russia Prepare for Naval Exercises
China will send 16 naval ships and two submarines to its first joint naval exercise with Russia, slated to start this weekend in the Yellow Sea, the Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday. The drill, which Russian authorities said will involve warships cruising near Japanese waters, has rattled the […]
Swiss treks across Japan to boot radiation fears
A Swiss man who walked from Hokkaido to Kagoshima Prefecture on foot in five months to dispel fears of radiation in the country among people overseas is receiving worldwide attention. Thomas Kohler, 44, worked at a travel agency in Zurich before the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power […]
Japan will intercept N Korean rocket if necessary
Japan says it will shoot down a North Korean rocket if necessary, as new satellite images appeared to show preparations for the launch next month. Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka issued the order to intercept the rocket if it threatened Japan’s territory. Pyongyang says it will launch a satellite on […]
109-year-old fine following appendectomy Kyodo
OSAKA — A 109-year-old woman in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, has undergone a successful appendectomy, likely becoming the oldest patient to have such surgery in Japan, the attending physician said Tuesday. Read more
Japan turns to technology to meet needs of growing elderly population
With the most rapidly aging population in the world and a growing number of people living to be more than 100 years old, firms in Japan have come up with some innovative products and services to cater to the needs of the elderly. On September 15 — national Respect for […]
For the Love of Islam: The Service of Humanity to Serve Allah
prayforjapan-film.org: The represent the best of living Islam. The love of humanity as taught by the Holy Prophet of Islam (may blessings of Allah be upon him). Not only do they […]
Online road maps eyed for disasters
Three major automakers plan to join an initiative to create online road traffic maps in preparation for future disasters, according to a nonprofit organization. In the Great East Japan Earthquake last year, widespread confusion resulted after road networks were seriously disrupted. ITS Japan, an NPO that promotes research and development […]
Japan envoy thanks Filipino nurses in Fukushima
Filipino nurses have stayed put in Fukushima, Japan, site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, to help their elderly patients. In a speech marking the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Toshinao Urabe on Sunday gave thanks to the Philippines […]
Japan marks one year since quake and tsunami disaster
With moments of silence and prayers, Japan has begun marking one year since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the nation, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. At dawn in the devastated northeastern coastal town of Rikuzentakata, dozens of people from across […]
Japan widens hunt for escaped penguin
Staff at Tokyo Sea Life Park said they believed the penguin was alive and well and somewhere in the Japanese capital after receiving reports it had successfully fed itself. Read more
German vessel sets out to explore quake-struck seafloor off Japan
One year after the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Japanese oceanographers and geologists are teaming up with German scientists to uncover any traces that the the magnitude-9 quake might have left on the sea floor. The scientists will search for geomorphological evidence of what exactly happened on 11 March last […]
Cooking becomes popular among male retirees
Kitchen no longer the domain of women as guys start to slice, dice Kyodo Men from the generation that worked hard to turn Japan into an economic powerhouse are increasingly turning to cooking classes as a retirement activity, even though housework was considered strictly women’s work back in their day. […]
How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan
TOKYO — Your daily life changes when the environment around you changes. Many people who go abroad find their daily routine changing to adapt to the environment, sometimes without being aware of the change. The website MADAME RiRi, which covers offbeat and interesting topics in Japan and around the world, […]