Davidson motorcycle that washed up on the shores of western Canada more than a year after it was swept away by the devastating tsunami will be preserved in a Harley museum in the US. The 2004 FXSTB Softail Night Train motorcycle will be permanently (...)
Roman wrestling champion Katsuya Kitamura has been banned for two years after testing positive for a muscle-building anabolic steroid, the Japan Wrestling Federation said Monday. Kitamura, 25, tested positive for drostanolone in two tests after (...)
damaged nuclear plant Monday after gray smoke rose from one of its reactor units, the latest of persistent troubles in stabilizing the radiation-leaking complex.
Smoke rising from the spent fuel storage pool of the plant's Unit 3 prompted the (...)
media
TOKYO, Ramadan 26, 1431/Sept 5,2010, SPA -- A Japanese journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan in April has been freed, Reuters quoted media reports as saying on Sunday.
Kosuke Tsuneoka, a 41-year-old freelance journalist, was at Japan's embassy (...)
General Award Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Translation Dr. Said bin Fayez Alsaeed highlighted the role of translation and its importance in the renaissance of any scientific knowledge.
In (...)
Protests flared in Tokyo Saturday as Oscar-winning dolphin hunting documentary “The Cove” was screened at cinemas despite outrage among people who complain the film is anti-Japanese.
About 30 protesters, mostly right-wingers, briefly skirmished (...)
actress famous in Asia for her sweet, girl-next-door image was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for using illegal stimulants in the latest celebrity drugs case in Japan.
The court handed down an 18-month jail term, suspended for three (...)
Consortiums hoping to win the contracts for the Two Holy Mosques train project have been given three months to prepare their technical and financial bids for the first stage.
The Railways Corporation issued its conditions to selected groups on (...)
Japan and China agreed Sunday to bolster cooperation between the countries' investigative authorities to solve food poisoning cases involving Chinese-made dumplings as soon as possible, a Japanese government official said, according to Kyodo.
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Tubayyeb stressed the need for more investments in both upstream and downstream projects. He said that while the company appreciates its current business in Japan, other potential areas of cooperation and development should be explored, particularly (...)
Aziz in 2005.
During a visit to the Kingdom in 2003, Former Japanese Foreign minister Yohi Kono termed Japan's diplomacy of as a mission in encouraging dialogues with the Islamic World, bringing about water resources development and engaging in (...)
orbiting body with "a lovely,
round shape" should be called a planet.
"It was purely a scientific affair," Watanabe said.
Some critics called for delaying the decision for up to three
years, claiming the panel jumped the gun. Binzel replied (...)
BASED ARAB ISLAMIC INSTITUTE PROGRAM TO TEACH ARABIC WERE PRAISED.
THE TWO SIDES STATED THAT FAIR AND COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO THE ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT WILL CONSIDERABLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE STABILITY AND PROSPERITY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND REMOVE THE (...)
SAUDI FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION
TOKYO, APRIL 5, SPA -- CROWN PRINCE SULTAN BIN ABDULAZIZ, THE DEPUTY PREMIER, DEFENSE AND AVIATION MINISTER AND INSPECTOR GENERAL, RECEIVED HERE TODAY CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE JAPANESE-SAUDI FRIENDSHIP (...)
biggest consumer of energy after the United States, and Japan is the third.
Japan estimated natural gas reserves in the disputed area at as high as 200 billion cubic metres in a 1999 survey, the equivalent of around two and a half years of domestic (...)
June quarter, its third straight quarter of
expansion. At an annual pace, that's up 1.1 percent.
The dollar bought 109.06 yen on the Tokyo foreign exchange
market at 5 p.m. (0800 GMT) Tuesday, down 0.48 yen from
late Monday and also below the (...)
two diplomats, two journalists and a young tourist who was beheaded - have been killed in Iraq since the start of the U.S.-led war.
While no troops have been killed or injured, the Japanese base in Samawah was also been the target recently for (...)