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After being in Japan for a while, you get to know a place by its festivals. See a gaggle of folk in a TV clip freezing their extremities off while gawping at vast, whimsical sculptures carved from snow and ice, and you...
Saturday 21st November, 10:01 AM JST TOKYO — Actress-turned-film producer Takiko Mizunoe died of old age Monday in Kanagawa Prefecture, sources close to her said Saturday. She was 94. Born in Otaru, Hokkaido, Mizunoe joined an...
Saturday 21st November, 10:19 AM JST SAPPORO — Two women sustained minor injuries after a man slashed them with a kitchen knife in Sapporo’s Atsubetsu Ward on Friday evening, police said. According to police, 30-year-old...
BY KOTA TAKEDA AND TATSUYUKI KOBORI THE ASAHI SHIMBUN For needle-shy patients who dread few things as much as a shot in the arm, there is reason to relax. Nasal spray vaccine is already used in the United States, while research...
“Hatta Yoichi” (八田與一) is a Japanese animated film about a Japanese engineer who was responsible for the development of irrigation systems in southern Taiwan. Sponge Bear comments on an article discussing how Taiwan's President...
Notes from Abroad observes that Australian peacekeepers armed with automatic rifles are a common sight in East Timor Recent Articles also in East Asia Recent Links also in East Asia Angry Chinese blogger writes on an...
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Take a quaint European-looking restaurant in a quiet Hokkaido town in the dead of winter. Add quirky regulars who are treated to nightly disquisitions, philosophical and otherwise, by the avuncular... Read more . . .
Recently, Square Enix confirmed the release date for Final Fantasy XIII, its upcoming Japanese role playing game blockbuster, for the markets in North America and Europe. The title is set to arrive on March 9, 2010 for those...
Authors: Midori Kawamura, Terumasa Fudei, Yoshio Abe, Katsutaka Sasaki A subnanometer thick organic molecule layer was prepared on a SiO_{2}/Si substrate using 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPTMS) possessing a thiol moiety...
