Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a week-long visit to Japan, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama returned here today, a day ahead of his trip to Arunachal Pradesh.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Tokyo - Thousands of people rallied on the island of Okinawa in southern Japan on Sunday to demand the relocation of a US military base which they say has been a burden on the island. The protests, which organizers say drew about 21,000 people, occur...
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW DELHI: Maritime security challenges, including anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean Region, will figure during Defence Minister A.K. Antony’s three-day visit to Japan, beginning on Sunday. Mr. Antony, who left for Tokyo ...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
With Japan Fashion Week shows now running concurrently with the Tokyo International Film Festival, it was hard sometimes not to liken the collections to films. Theatre Products had "A Passage to India" theme in its collection of traditional Indian embroidery and linen fused with European lace and modern commercialism (one model cradled a giant bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin).
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
NAGANO — Miki Ando continued her resurgence by capturing her second Grand Prix title of the season on Saturday night at Big Hat. Ando, who went three years without a GP victory, has now won two in the past 15 days. Her win here assured her of a spot in next month's Grand Prix Final in Tokyo and appears certain to make her a lock for a spot on Japan's team for next year's Vancouver Olympics.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's something special about places on the outer limits of great nations or continents; a sort of liberated and reflective space, away from it all, yet still connected to it. Think Alaska, Vancouver Island, the Koh Chang islands in Thailand, Xining in far western China or the pearl of Sri Lanka hanging off the neckace of India. On Ishigaki in the Yaeyama Island group, some 400 km southwest of Okinawa,...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
For six flurried days from Oct. 19, Tokyo's ritzy Midtown complex area hosted a flock of excited fashionistas for the ninth biannual Japan Fashion Week. But this time around, the designers, models and critics must have been feeling some opening-night jitters after a tumultuous year for the designer fashion industry.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
It comes as no great surprise to see so many international designers turning to Japan for artistic inspiration, because it's well known that the fashion pack often come to the Far East for fresh ideas. Take Raf Simons. His latest collection for Jil Sander, shown in Milan, used an image of Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) as a main styling point, and he adorned several shirts with some...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | yesterday
MCOT English News (from Thai News Agency) : Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Friday that Japan will provide over 500 billion yen in official development assistance to five Mekong countries in Southeast Asia over the next three years. Hatoyama made the commitment at the first summit meeting involving the leaders of Japan and the five Mekong-region countries -- Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan urged Myanmar Saturday to release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi before next year's election, adding it was ready to provide more aid if democratization in the country advanced.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former world champions Miki Ando and Brian Joubert claimed gold in the women's and men's events respectively at the NHK Trophy figure skating Grand Prix here on Saturday. Japan's 2007 world champion Ando earned a spot in the Grand Prix final in Tokyo in early December after she claimed her second Grand Prix victory of the season after the Cup of Russia last month. Ando finished second in both the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Tokyo - US President Barack Obama wants to begin a visit to Japan a day later than planned so he could take part in a memorial service for 13 people killed in a shooting rampage at a US military base, news reports said. Obama requested that the start...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
US President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Japan next week by one day, according to a Japanese foreign ministry official, following a deadly shooting at a military base in Texas. Japanese national broadcaster NHK and Jiji Press reported that Washington had asked Tokyo to reschedule the two-day visit to allow Obama to attend a memorial service for the 13 people killed in Thursday's shooting....
TOKYOMANGO (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
For $150, you can now get this cute, boxy toy projector called the Toyjector. It's two cubic inches and weighs just four ounces, so it's super portable, but it really is just a toy — it projects 300x224 images and...
Weird Asia News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The systemic fear of H1N1, known more colloquially as “swine flu,” has seized the world by the haunches, prompting the United Nations to create “World Hand Washing Day” in an attempt to convey the importance of proper hygiene to prevent the virus’s spread. Set in Tokyo, Japan, a group of kindergartners mimed hand washing instructions in [...] Related posts:Flip Hole: Japan...
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