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US President Barack Obama addressed the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2009 inspiring the world leaders to engineer “a new era of engagement based on mutual interest and mutual respect”. Candidly, he acknowledged that the US has fallen...
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With the recovery tenuous, deflation afflicting all levels of commerce and the country at risk of sovereign debt crisis, it seemed an odd time for Japan’s biggest and...
made popular Nov 19 2009
In Japan, being thin isn’t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It’s the law.
So before the fat police could throw her in pudgy purgatory, Miki...
made popular Nov 11 2009
A JAPANESE man has sued a hospital, arguing it unnecessarily gave him an artificial rectum after misdiagnosing him as suffering rectal cancer, a hospital official...
made popular Oct 23 2009
In the best traditions of “Wolf Creek”, a movie inspired with unsolved criminal mystery of the sixties, a Northern Territory tourist destination once again...
made popular Oct 1 2009
Taiji reveals its Janus face as soon as you emerge from the road tunnel on
the town’s periphery. Bottlenoses leap out of the water in unison at the aqua park, where...
made popular Sep 26 2009
In the country with the lowest birth rate in the world, the newly empowered Democratic Party of Japan has proposed a solution: pay to procreate.
As part of the...
made popular Sep 17 2009
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama promised economic revival and strong US ties, hours after taking office.
In a news conference, he vowed to deliver a...
made popular Sep 16 2009
Yukio Hatoyama, the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, has caused alarm in Washington after publishing an article blaming the US for the ills of capitalism, the...
made popular Sep 12 2009
Reporting from Hyakuri, Japan - Crouched in his lush green rice fields on this agricultural plain northeast of Tokyo, Masaru Umezawa works the land as his father and...
made popular Sep 10 2009
Japan’s next prime minister might be nicknamed “the alien,” but it’s his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another...
made popular Sep 3 2009
apan’s newly empowered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in elections, sending...
made popular Aug 31 2009
The new chief executive of one of Japan’s larger companies sat up late into the night recently puzzling over the accounts. He simply could not work out why there...
made popular Aug 8 2009
Japan announced Thursday it would freeze assets of North Koreans in compliance with new UN sanctions for their links to Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, an official...
made popular Jul 23 2009
Japan’s love hotels are attracting interest from more than just couples looking for a place to spend a few private hours.
Investors are also interested; this...
made popular Jul 16 2009
apan’s ruling party defeated a no-confidence motion Tuesday against the prime minister’s Cabinet, but an increasingly bold opposition used the occasion to...
made popular Jul 14 2009
Is any UN legislation in place as Russia is going to dig up Helium on the Moon in 2015 and Japan has found Uranium recently?
made popular Jul 1 2009
Japanese unemployment rose to its highest in almost six years in May, raising concerns over the recovery of the world’s second-largest economy.
The unemployment...
made popular Jun 30 2009
The stigma attached to walking down the aisle even very late into a pregnancy is evaporating in Japan, with dekichatta-kon weddings accounting for almost one third of...
made popular Jun 22 2009
Japan’s Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS) has decided not to allow the sale of rape games in the country. The decision came after protest from American...
made popular Jun 8 2009
Japan’s sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world’s most endangered fish.
A...
made popular Jun 3 2009
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Mr.Singh has a a lot of love for the Americans especially American presidents.The love affair started with Mr.Bush and it continues with Obama and I feel that Mr.Singh...
made popular Jul 14 2009
World leaders wrapped up the G8 summit in L’Aquila last night, saying that it could be the last meeting of its kind.
President Obama joined Silvio Berlusconi, the...
made popular Jul 11 2009
Italy and France have been accused of reneging on promises to increase aid to African nations.
Anti-poverty group One, set up by rock star Bono, said Italy had...
made popular Jun 11 2009
Editorial writers around the world have called the recent Russia-Georgia war a watershed in how Russia views the world and the world views Russia. Moscow’s...
made popular Sep 29 2008
A Catholic growing up in a patriarchal society that still, to this day, smells the heavy wafts of religious colonialism, would have been made to believe that “the...
made popular Aug 10 2008
The annual meetings of world leaders, the so-called G8 summits, are often criticized for raising high expectations, but delivering few practical results. Adding to...
made popular Jul 14 2008
As many of you know, I write about events in Zimbabwe every day on my respective pages, and some days I am astonished at the basic cruelty that happens in that country,...
made popular Jul 9 2008
The G8 leaders agreed Tuesday in Japan to support a 50% reduction in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However, developing nations including China and India...
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The Group of Eight leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global...
made popular Jul 9 2008
The recent transformation in global political order has changed many things. One of them is that the world is no more moved by a few countries like G-7/8. The rise of...
made popular Jul 8 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - None of the G8 countries have come close to fulfilling their pledges to fight climate change with the United States, Canada and Russia lagging...
made popular Jul 3 2008
Nigeria’s nuclear programme is causing concern in G-8 countries. Although Nigeria’s nuclear programme is purely for power generation, the G8 nations are...
made popular Jun 30 2008
Energy ministers are meeting in Japan a day after a record one-day jump in the crude oil price, to $139 a barrel.
made popular Jun 8 2008
Everyone is aware in this world about the association of eight countries those are the world’s rich and powerful nations as Group Eight. At the summit another...
made popular Jun 9 2007
The Indian Prime Minister is very soft spoken and soft hearted man. Despite of China’s claim on Arunachal Pradesh on many occasions, he still believes that China...
made popular Jun 8 2007
The issue of climate change is going to be the most debatable topic in the agenda of the G-8 summit. India is all set to present the views on this issue and ready to...
made popular Jun 6 2007
Schizophrenia prevails over global warming issue that most expectedly will rock the G8 summit in Germany with US inducting new plans while keeping the vital German...
made popular Jun 5 2007
The Gleneagles Hotel was the plush backdrop for the 31st summit of the world’s industrialized democracies in 2005. Mr. Tony Blair had set the priority of...
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