A striker finally scoring his first league goal 15 games into a season wouldn't normally be greeted with murmurs of excitement, but then Naohiro Takahara's track record has earned him the benefit of the doubt. Takahara, a player with 57 caps and 23 international goals to his name in a career spent at clubs in Japan, Argentina and Germany, scored Reds' second in Saturday's 2-0 win over Vissel Kobe,...
KOBE (AP) Japan's first female professional baseball player struggled with her control in recording her first loss. Eri Yoshida, a 17-year-old who throws a sidearm knuckleball, took the mound in the ninth inning with the score tied 2-2. Read the full story
Aunt of H1N1 patient becomes 15th case By Desmond Wong, Channel NewsAsia SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH )has confirmed another H1N1 case, bringing the total to 15 cases so far. The latest case is a 39-year-old Indonesian woman who is the aunt of an earlier case. She went to Changi Airport to fetch her niece who returned from New York via Frankfurt on Monday. When the niece developed symptoms...
KOBE (Kyodo) J. League club Vissel Kobe are in negotiations to re-sign Japan striker Yoshito Okubo from German champions VfL Wolfsburg, team official Masahiro Wada revealed Saturday. "We have heard the player himself say he wants to come back and for Kobe, adding Okubo would be a major boost to the squad," said Wada. "All that's left is to see if we can reach an agreement on a transfer...
A news photo pretty much sums up how things are in Osaka/Kobe: The number of confirmed H1N1 flu cases in the Kansai area had reached 90 at the time of this posting and was expected to rise as test results were still not in for many other suspected cases. Quite a lot of the [...]
Japan has confirmed its first domestic case of H1N1 flu, a high school student in Kobe: A high school student from Kobe, western Japan, tested positive for swine flu after coming down with fever, Shinsuke Izumi, assistant manager at Kobe city’s crisis management center, said by phone. Test results show two more students from the same [...]
Video of a man in Kobe who converted a storage area under some stairs into a parking space: According to the narrator, the man first measured the parking space, and then bought a car that fit into it. — Akihabara News - Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) dannychoo.com - Your portal to Japan (Subscribe) Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan (Subscribe)
OSAKA (AP) Japan's first female professional baseball player made her debut Friday, striking out one batter in the ninth inning. Eri Yoshida, a 17-year-old who throws a sidearm knuckleball, took the mound during Kobe 9 Cruise's 5-0 season-opening win over the Osaka Gold Villicanes in the newly formed Kansai Independent League. Read the full story
Asics, one of the most trusted running shoe brands in the world, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. Founded in Kobe, Japan in 1949, the shoe maker was originally known as Onitsuka Tiger before it merged with GTO and JELENK in 1977 to become Asics. Had I realized my favorite running shoes were actually Japanese, I might have packed a pair next to my Yukata, tea ceremony set, and wasabi-flavored...
# 2737 By way of the Bird Flu Information Corner - a joint endeavor between Kobe University , Japan and Institute of Tropical Disease , Airlangga University , Indonesia - we get two Indonesian media reports tonight regarding an investigation into suspicious deaths that occurred in Bogor, Indonesia two weeks ago. Bogor is a small town located about 40 km south of Jakarta. Based on the two articles below,...
# 2726 From the Bird Flu Information Corner - a weblog collaboration between Kobe University, Japan and Institute of Tropical Disease, Airlangga University, Indonesia - we get this updated summary chart of Human H5N1 Bird Flu infections in Indonesia since 2005. Indonesia case summary update (Komnas Flu burung, 2009) January 30, 2009 Avian influenza human infection cases up to 2009 update issued by...
A medical team in Japan Saturday recorded the country's first successful combined heart-lung transplant operation, hospital officials said. The patient is a man in his 30s who received the donor organs of another man, also in his 30s, who had been certified as brain dead at a hospital in Kobe.
Kobe Kobelco Steelers picked up the fourth and final spot in the Microsoft Cup when they beat Yamaha Jubilo 23-10 in the Japan Rugby Top League on Sunday.
The first combined heart and lung transplant in Japan began Saturday evening at Osaka University Hospital, the Tokyo-based Japan Organ Transplant Network said. The organs were provided by a man in his 30s declared brain dead Friday at Hyogo Emergency Medical Center in Kobe, where he was being treated for head injuries. They will be transplanted into a man, also in his 30s, at Osaka University Hospital...
Kobe Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar and Duffy’s Sports Grill, both of Florida, have opted to incorporate iControl technology into their existing restaurant POS systems in their chain restaurants. In the hospitality industry a point of sale system is a necessity, and technological advancement enhances these systems regularly. A recent development is the iControl feature interfaced with POSitouch...
Kobe Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar of Florida has partnered with Pinnacle Hospitality Systems to implement turnkey business and customer service methods. The chain restaurant has opted to incorporate POSitouch point of sale solutions into their locations including Altamonte Springs, Longwood, Kirkman Road, International Drive, Lake Buena Vista, Kissimmee, Clearwater and Tampa Florida. Kobe Steakhouse...
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