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A British medical journal has retracted a clinical study submitted by a team of Japanese researchers, after another study group questioned the credibility of its results. The paper, published in The ...
Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger. Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, was there to help with vaccination activities, using her experience as a... Read more . . .
BY YUSUKE KANNO AND SEIICHIRO UTANO THE ASAHI SHIMBUN The Yanba Dam in Naganohara, northwestern Gunma Prefecture, has become a typical example of a public works project that no longer matches the times. Question: The cost of...
Japan's Scientists Fight Proposed Budget Cuts Nothing rouses a research community like a threat to its funding, as could be seen this week here in Japan after a task force recommended deep cuts (subs req) in the Ministry of...
By Miho Yoshikawa TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Japanese buyers accepted premiums of $115-$120 per tonne for delivery in October-December, as sellers profited from worries about low stockpiles at Japanese ports and tightly held...
TOKYO, Nov. 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The U.S. dollar slipped to a six-week low in the upper 88 yen range Friday in Tokyo as Japanese exporters sold the dollar ahead of a three-day weekend in Japan, while other market participants...
Skip It The Movie: Attack Girls' Swim Team vs. the Undead sounds like it is a zany, off kilter Japanese zombie movie. Hiding under this inviting exterior, though, is a soft core porn film with a limp zombie framework thrown up...
TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Japanese copper wire and cable shipments amounted to an estimated 61,000 tonnes in October, down 14.3 percent from a year earlier, an industry body said on Friday. They were up from 57,984 tonnes in...
First there were the "enjo kosai" Internet sites where underage girls hook up with adult males in exchange for money. Now there's a new type of Web site that unites girls running away from home with men offering a place to stay...
In a moment of morbid humor that’s been lost with each subsequent retelling, earth scientist and professional doom-monger Bill McGuire once described Tokyo as “the city waiting to die.” “There are few cities in the world as...
