Kobe

Name in the News - Eri

Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old high school student, is going to be the first woman to play alongside the men in Japanese professional baseball. She will be playing for the Kobe 9 Cruise when the Kansai Independent Baseball League...

China eel mislabeled as domestic nets eight seafood execs' arrests

KOBE (Kyodo) Police arrested eight people Saturday in connection with the false-labeling of grilled eel farmed in China that were passed off as being Japanese-raised. Arrested were Akihiro Nakatani, 44, president of...

Worlds apart, yet related by tradition

FLYING POPE: 127 Haiku, by Ban'ya Natsuishi, translations by Ban'ya Natsuishi and Jim Kacian. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net, 2008, 139 pp., $20 (paper) Ostensibly these two books of poetry seem to have little in common, beyond...

Letter for Kobe Bryant

To: Kobe Bryant and team mates, Please keep your heart, mind, intellect, and your soul even to your smallest acts into game you going play. Kobe your Excellence is not an acts but it is your habits. The things you do the most...

COLLABORATION - CO-CREATION

WINNERS: Academic Division: United Nations University Corporate Division: Dell for Communities and Conversations AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE: B3 Communications for Raytheon and Qumu Cisco Systems IBM Corporation Tier One Public...

National › Nurse to sue for labor insurance benefits over 2005 railway disaster

Saturday 15th November, 05:30 AM JST KOBE — A nurse who treated victims in the 2005 railway disaster in Hyogo Prefecture plans to sue the state, demanding that she be eligible for labor accident insurance benefits for...

Crime › Doshisha Univ student gets suspended term over marijuana possession

Thursday 13th November, 11:51 AM JST KOBE — The Kobe District Court on Thursday handed a six-month jail sentence, suspended for three years, to a female student at Doshisha University for marijuana possession. Chino Nishida,...

Politics › Hyogo governor apologizes for remarks on Tokyo quake

Thursday 13th November, 04:27 AM JST KOBE — Hyogo Gov Toshizo Ido apologized Wednesday for his remark Tuesday that a major earthquake in the Tokyo area would provide a ‘‘chance’’ for the economy in western Japan, including his...

Drunken woman cleared of bar tab

KOBE (Kyodo) The Kobe District Court has acquitted a 36-year-old woman accused of ordering 10 bottles of champagne worth ¥180,000 at a Kobe bar without enough money to pay for them, on grounds that because she was seriously...

Jurrasic Mouse

Des scientifiques japonais ont clonés une souris à partir des cellules d'une autre souris....morte. Jurrasic Mouse A mouse has been cloned for the first time from a frozen, but absolutely dead, mouse – raising hopes, or fears,...

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