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If only the ancient Chinese Had Panasonic’s LifeWall, they could have fended off nomadic tribes with HDTV instead of bricks and battlements. But since we live in the future, we can shut out the rest of the world with television that not only stretches...
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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
Here I was thinking that Sony was the dominant electronics company that which is almost invincible in its stature. But the Japanese firm is more akin to a - to quote...
made popular Mar 9 2009
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s economy shrank at an annual 12.7 percent pace last quarter, the most since the 1974 oil shock, as recessions in the U.S. and...
made popular Feb 16 2009
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Ready for some new terminology? Good, try on “3MOS” — Panasonic’s newest sensor adaptation which, judging by machine translated text, is a trio...
made popular Jun 19 2008
Panasonic has plans to release the CN-MP50D in Japan, which is basically a GPS navigation system of the Panasonic Strada Pocket series. Sadly, this is a Japanese...
made popular Jan 28 2008
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In this September 16, 2008, file photo, Fumio Otsubo, president of then Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., speaks during a press event in Tokyo to announce the major Japanese electronics maker will scrap its Japanese brand name “National” and start a...
