American Tower's profit increases in third quarter Nov 4, 2008
US, allies order $422m of missiles from Raytheon Co., the world's largest missile maker, won a $422 million order to supply its Standard Missile-2 weapons to the United States and allied nations including Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. The Waltham company will supply the Block IIIA and Block IIIB versions of the missile, which has been the US Navy's primary surface-to-air fleet-defense system for more than 30 years. (Boston Globe)
* COMMUNITY COMPASS: INTERVIEW: Lonely Planet Taiwan author loves his subject Nov 4, 2008
Wavering between moving to Japan, where his sister was working, and Taiwan, Robert chose the latter, and soon after moving here in 1996, he began teaching at a bushiban in Taoyuan, where his talent for writing stories soon gained notice. After teaching for about a year and a half and developing pneumonia from the toxic air in the classroom, Robert moved to Muzha, Taipei. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
LETTERS: NCT, Nov. 3, 2008 Nov 4, 2008
It is still research, and there is no power being produced, but the world research combine (US, EU, Japan, & China) hope to have a prototype working in France in 2035 and actual electric production by the end of the century. The research facility at GA can sustain plasma operation for 5 or 6 seconds which is a quantum improvement and the slope of the curve over the past 20 years exceeds Moores Law. (North County Times)
A way to give your stuff wireless IDs Nov 3, 2008
recently showed a prototype flexible display (OLED displays can be made thin and flexible) at a Japanese trade show ... But it is telling of a technology's flimsiness when an exhibitor has to keep it locked in a display case, as Sony did this fall in Japan. (Boston Globe)
Buddhist temple becomes Place of Peace’ in S.C. Nov 3, 2008
The structure donated by a Japanese family with roots in Greenville s textile past and connections to a university professor symbolizes an evolution for the private liberal arts school ... Believed to be the only temple moved from Japan to the U.S., the so-called Place of Peace was shipped in 2,400 pieces and reassembled by 13 specialized temple artisans from Japan ... Shaner s ties to a Japanese family that moved to Greenville in the 1960s helped bring the temple to campus. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Bernanke's Fed Chasing Down the Global Infection Nov 3, 2008
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The first interest-rate cut in seven years had to be traumatic for Bank of Japan staffers. Not only did it undo years of struggling to lift borrowing costs from zero, but few investors seemed to care. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Oh, Christmas tree: More than 600 people trek up Skalkaho for cutting of Capitol fir Nov 2, 2008
Some ornaments even came from Kumamoto, Japan, a sister state of Montana's. Among the caravan's stops across the country will be a two-day stay in Branson, Mo. (Missoulian, MT)
Location, location, Episode III: Promoting ourselves Nov 2, 2008
The sinking value of the dollar has made it cheaper for filmmakers from India, Japan or Europe to come to the U.S.. As for how Humboldt is doing, Cruse said this week she had six inquiries on locations and met with three filmmakers looking to do different projects. (Daily Triplicate)
US caught in ill winds over North Korea Nov 1, 2008
At this juncture, though, it's not clear when the six parties, China, the US, Japan, Russia and the two Koreans - will hold their next talks, and it's still less clear whether they'll come up with a verification protocol regardless of whether the North is off the US terror list or not ... For US diplomats, the challenge is to get the six-party process moving again despite the rhetoric, which also calls for banning Japan from the process ... North Korea is turned off by Japan's incessant... (Asia Times Online)
Confident Obama: 'I think we're winning right now so maybe I'm doing something right'... Nov 1, 2008
When Hitler and Japan threatened to take that FREEDOM away from us, we fought and died to keep it. Now, a candidate for president is threatning to take FREEDOMS from us and he will have the power of a democratic congress to do it, and we are all in AWE of him. (The Drudge Report)
PAKISTAN QUAKE Nov 1, 2008
The United States and China had pledged $1 million each for rehabilitation work, while Japan and several other countries had also promised help. The World Health Organisation said it was sending two truckloads of essential medicines and supplies. (AlertNet)
Pakistan quake relief efforts focus on bitter winter Nov 1, 2008
Japan and several other countries had also promised help while the World Health Organisation said it was sending two truckloads of essential medicines and supplies. The World Food Programme said it would provide 700 tonnes of dry food rations in initial relief supplies for an estimated 20,000 homeless. (International Herald Tribune)
Inexpensive, fun date ideas? Oct 30, 2008
Japan is a great place ... and i got a couple of trips to tokyo thrown in from my japanese girlfriend at the time and toyko is the bomb ... Japan is a really clean country, but the cleanest place i have ever been to is Singapore (and SO MUCH fun). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Chinese advice for the next U.S. president Oct 30, 2008
The result: the lines lines that once separated Europe, Japan, and the U.S. from the rest of of the world -- boundaries that had had become blurred with the recent emergence of such economic adolescents as Brazil, Russian, China, and India -- are being redrawn ... Japan gets the week started off with a bang. (Salon)
Japan hangs two more on death row Oct 28, 2008
Japan has hanged two convicted murderers, including one who strangled two schoolgirls with his bare hands ... Last year, Japan executed nine convicted killers ... Japan is one of the few countries in Asia which has stepped up its use of the death penalty, despite international condemnation. (BBC News)
Soldiers, UN retreat as rebels advance in Congo Oct 28, 2008
Shih Tzu Miyako poses for a snapshot during the Kawasaki Halloween 2008 festival in Japan. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi. (Yahoo News)
Salmon Tracked On 2,500 Km Trip, Aids Conservation Oct 28, 2008
"These results have global implications and will be of interest in Chile, Russia, Japan, India, Ireland -- indeed every nation where fish migrate between fresh and salt water," said Victor Gallardo of Chile, a vice chair of the Census of Marine Life group that backs POST.. The two fish were among 1,000 juvenile chinook salmon tagged in the Columbia and Fraser Rivers in 2006. (Planet Ark, United States)
Performers want to show Peking Opera to the world Oct 28, 2008
Mei Lanfang, the famous Dan performer of the 1920s and 1930s, was first to take the opera abroad to Japan, the United States and the former Soviet Union. In the 1980s, Yang Qiuling popularized the opera in the University of Hawaii by singing it in foreign languages. (Xinhuanet, China)
Whatever happened to food versus fuel? Oct 28, 2008
The result: the lines lines that once separated Europe, Japan, and the U.S. from the rest of of the world -- boundaries that had had become blurred with the recent emergence of such economic adolescents as Brazil, Russian, China, and India -- are being redrawn ... In Japan, the 1990s are referred to as "the lost decade" -- a period in which economic growth halted and the Nikkei stock index lost 63 percent of its value ... The reasons for the derailment of the Japanese miracle are. (Salon)
* Sport Briefs Oct 27, 2008
CYCLING Cunego takes Japan Cup Italys Damiano Cunego won the Japan Cup cycling road race yesterday, holding off compatriots Giovanni Visconti and Ivan Basso. Cunego, winner here in 2005, won the 151km race in 4 hours, 4 minutes and 57 seconds. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Avoid another Wasatch Front Oct 27, 2008
Doug wrote on Oct 26, 2008 12:21 PM:" If you were to stand on the highest point of the Country Club golf course and site across this valley, particularly the communities in this valley, you'd see a VERY high degree of value added to the land. It fascinates me when people try to imply that we're a cancer on the land.Furthermore, all one need do when driving to Salt Lake City is look to the mountains and out west at the Salt Lake to see an abundance of open space, "vistas", etc. All we need do... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Japan Returns to Pre-Thriller Era as Nikkei 225 Index Slumps to 1982 Level Oct 27, 2008
Japan Returns to Pre-Thriller Era as Nikkei Slumps to '82 Level ... Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The last time Japan's Nikkei was at today's level, headbands and legwarmers were in, Steven Spielberg's E.T. topped box offices, and Michael Jackson's Thriller was about to be released ... Shares on the Topix index, the broadest gauge of Japan's stock market, trade, the first time the average has been below 1, according to Mizuho Securities Co. That means the companies would be worth more if liquidated. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Buried Antarctic Mountain Range Shouldn't Exist at All Oct 25, 2008
AGAP involves researchers and support personnel from Australia, China, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. It caps the global scientific deployment known as the International Polar Year (IPY), the largest coordinated international scientific effort in 50 years. (Fox News)
Yagyu Shinkage-Ryu Influences Oct 24, 2008
Contributions Made by Some of Japans Fiercest Swordsmen. Sword-style martial arts from Japan have had a great many influences ... Regardless of what Japanese sword style any given person studies, nobody can deny the influence that the Yagyu ideal had on bugeisha of the time, nor that those influences haven t had a major impact today. (Suite101.com)
Ibo's Levine Strikes A Blow For Integrity Oct 24, 2008
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Energy issues play key role in Wyo. US House race Oct 24, 2008
Trauner is skeptical of Lummis's view the United States should handle nuclear waste in part by reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, as is done in France and Japan. "They've got fuel rods stacking up they don't know what to do with. So they haven't really figured it out yet," Trauner said of those countries. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Getting big in Japan Oct 23, 2008
It was 11pm and I was roaming the aisles of a hypermarket-sized Japanese pharmacy, looking for a home pregnancy kit ... In an isolated corner of rural Japan, in a rickety old house nestled among rice paddies and strawberry farms, I had to review my 'inyaka-gaijin' (rice paddy foreigner) status, along with my long-term plans for the rest of my life ... A kind of dissolute, Japanese Graham Green character, also my school supervisor. (iAfrica.com)
Sudan 'could face new Darfur war' Oct 23, 2008
Page last updated at 13:47 GMT, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:47 UK. Sudan 'could face new Darfur war. (BBC News -- Africa)
Huge mountain range shouldn't be there Oct 22, 2008
"We think also that there's a strong possibility that the mountains are the birthplace of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Over 30 million years ago ice began to grow around the peaks, eventually burying the range and its surrounding lakes. AGAP involves researchers and support personnel from Australia, China, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. It caps the global scientific deployment known as the International Polar Year (IPY), the largest coordinated international... (MSNBC -- Politics)
Japanese teacher helping Chippewa Falls middle school students Oct 22, 2008
Japanese visiting teacher Takeski Yamazaki asks a Chippewa Falls Middle School student her name, so he can write it on a white board in Japanese ... His reasons for participating in the program are to study the American education system and to teach students about Japanese culture ... I will teach other Japanese teachers about education in Wisconsin, Yamazaki said. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
South Korea's Buddhist Temples Offer Austere Respite From Economic Turmoil Oct 22, 2008
South Korea may well be the land of TV soaps and reality shows, but it is also where Seon Buddhism, Korea's answer to Japan's Zen, has remained the purest, or so the Koreans say ... It was partly thanks to the role played by the martial-arts-trained warrior monks during the Japanese invasion of Korea in the late 16th century that Buddhism's status was restored. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Statistical/medical analysis of BSE shows progress against disease, fallacy of overreliance on testing Oct 21, 2008
These were key findings presented by a leading global expert on BSE at a conference for Japan s opinion leaders hosted by the U.S. Meat Export Federation in Tokyo Oct. 15 ... He was joined on the dais by Dr. Masahiko Ariji, a researcher for the AMITA Institute for Sustainable Economics, and a panel of Japanese journalists and health industry experts ... Speaking to an audience of more than 80 Japanese government officials, meat industry representatives, media and opinion leaders, including... (Midwest Bulls Eye, NE)
Japanese team finds 'yeti footprints' in Nepal Oct 21, 2008
In this undated handout combination picture from Yeti Project Japan received on October 20, 2008, what is alleged to be the footprint of a Yeti (left) is measured on the Dhaulagiri mountain northwest of Pokhara and compared to a human footprint (right) ... A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti, which is said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet ... "The footprints were about 20 centimetres long and looked like... (The Age, Australia -- World)
Japan considers bigger role on economic stage Oct 21, 2008
And as the global financial order convulses, some Japanese leaders say they believe their country should take a more active role in economic leadership. While many European leaders cast recriminations and "I told you sos," Japan and much of Asia are considering how to fill some of the voids left behind ... The United States will commit as much as a trillion dollars to bailing out its banks, but the Asians are flush with cash, even as countries like Japan the world's second-largest economy face... (International Herald Tribune)
Food authority accused over GM decisions Oct 21, 2008
- Another Syngenta corn (GE Bt10) approved by the authority despite being banned by the European Union and Japan because no safety assessments have yet been conducted. - A Monsanto canola, still the subject of debate in the European Union and banned outright in Austria, after Monsanto's own testing found increases in liver sizes in rats by up to 16 per cent.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Malaysian travel style Oct 18, 2008
The number one country that Malaysians want to visit but have never been is Japan, followed by Australia and then destinations in Malaysia including Sarawak, Langkawi, KL and Labuan. Top countries that Malaysians would like to holiday in but have not yet been are. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Let’s go play in the snow Oct 17, 2008
The 59th edition of the Warren Miller ski film series Children of Winter has spectacular footage shot in Japan, Austria, British Columbia, Alaska and Iceland. But, I m willing to bet that the cult-like legions of fans at the Corvallis showing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, at LaSells Stewart Center will save the loudest cheers of the night for a long-overdue segment featuring Oregon s Mount Bachelor. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Our mountain range hidden in ice Oct 16, 2008
The intrepid team of scientists, engineers, pilots and support staff from Britain, US, Germany, Japan and China, as well as Australia, will have to work in remote locations at extreme altitudes. They will experience 24 hours of daylight and temperatures as low as minus 40. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Origin of Alps-size Antarctic mountain range unknown Oct 16, 2008
" AGAP, involving researchers and support personnel from Australia, China, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom andUnited States, caps the global scientific deployment known as the International Polar Year (IPY), the largest coordinated international scientific effort in 50 years. The Gamburtsevs were discovered by a Soviet traverse during the last IPY in 1957-58 that was known as the International Geophysical Year. Traveling deep into the Antarctic interior, roughly 394 miles from the South Pole, the... (EurekAlert!)
Expedition set for 'ghost peaks' Oct 15, 2008
The group comprises scientists, engineers, pilots and support staff from the UK, the US, Germany, Australia, China and Japan. It's rather like being an archaeologist and opening up a tomb in a pyramid and finding an astronaut sitting inside. (BBC News)
Challenge To Discover Antarcticas Hidden World Oct 15, 2008
15, 2008) Later this month teams of scientists, engineers, pilots and support staff from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), USA, Germany, Australia, China and Japan will join forces for one of the most scientifically, technically ambitious and physically demanding Antarctic projects yet to be undertaken ... US, Chinese and Japanese teams will study the deeper structure under the Gamburtsev subglacial mountains using seismology. (Science Daily)
Free fall deepens recession fears Oct 11, 2008
He also will meet with finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada tomorrow ... Japan's benchmark Nikkei average plunged nearly 10 percent, Australia markets slid more than 7 percent and South Korea stocks were down about 8 percent ... Japan is set to propose to the world's leading industrialized nations that a joint fund be set up to give emergency loans to nations hit by the growing financial... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Full Text Of The Debate Oct 8, 2008
And one of the things I want to do is make sure that we're providing incentives so that you can buy a fuel efficient car that's made right here in the United States of America, not in Japan or South Korea, making sure that you are able to weatherize your home or make your business more fuel efficient ... The Japanese, the British, the French do it. (CBS News)
JOGMEC Finds Minerals in Andes Oct 8, 2008
Tokyo, Oct 8, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. said Wednesday it has found a mineral belt, including copper and gold, in the Andes mountains on the border of Chile and Argentina ... A division of Japan Corporate News Network KK. ... 2001-2008 The Japan Corporate News Network (JCN) K.K.. (JCN Network, Japan)
Oldest Footprints on Earth Possibly Found Oct 7, 2008
Space exploration goes global as U.S., Europe, Russia, China, Japan, even India plan moon shots. AP Wires. (Fox News)
MILITARY: Camp offers weekend getaway for Marine Corps wives Oct 7, 2008
Duran's husband has been deployed five times since their daughter was born: once to Japan, once to Egypt and three times to Iraq, where he was injured by shrapnel when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb and then again when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his campsite. "It's been hard, very hard," she said. (North County Times)
Kyrgyzstan earthquake 'kills 58' Oct 6, 2008
Downturn stirs Japan suicide fears ... How do you stop Japanese suicides ... Japan downturn stirs fears of new wave of suicides. (BBC News)
* Taiwan News Quick Take Oct 5, 2008
TRAVEL Japan still requires visas. The National Immigration Agency (NIA) on Friday reminded those who want to study in Japan to seek a student visa before going there or face the possibility of being refused entry ... Immigration officials said that Japan waived its visitor visa requirements for Taiwanese nationals two years ago, and some local residents have mistaken this to mean that they can enter and leave Japan freely. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Newt: Palin Should Just Be Palin Oct 3, 2008
"The fact is, if we didn't have so much leftwing litigation, so much leftwing regulation, we ought to be able to drill. We won the entire second world war in three years and eight months. The entire war. We beat Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Japan in three years and eight months, and now we're told it takes ten years to drill? That tells you about government, not about drilling.". To read an excerpt of "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy... (CBS News -- Early Show)
Bay Area Vista Oct 3, 2008
Continuing its annual tradition, Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival will host its 41st parade in Japantown ... Performers from Japan and California have come together to give the community a taste of Japans culture with floats, Taiko drummers, beautiful kimono clad dance groups and many others ... Where: San Francisco Japantown. (NBC 11, CA)
Honda shows off new Insight hybrid at Paris auto show Oct 3, 2008
It will be manufactured at Honda's Suzuka, Japan, factory. The small, five-passenger hatchback is named after Honda's original Insight hybrid a radical two-seater that went on sale in the U.S. in December 1999, the first time a major automaker sold a gasoline-electric hybrid in America. (USA Today -- Autos)
60 days until our ArtWalk extravaganza Sep 25, 2008
His acrylic paintings are in private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan, and he has been featured in a number of art magazines. An illustrator since 1977, Curry has accumulated hundreds of awards, has had five one-man shows and has illustrated three children s books. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
Transcript: Sen. Obama, Part 2 Sep 25, 2008
We can invest in more fuel-efficient cars, making sure they're built here in the U.S., instead of in China and Japan. We can make our buildings more energy efficient. (CBS News -- 60 minutes)
Japanese banks hunting again for overseas deals Sep 25, 2008
TOKYO (AP) - Back in the 1980s, when Japan found itself flush with unprecedented wealth, it splurged on flashy overpriced trophies like Rockefeller Center and the Pebble Beach Golf Links. It was a dizzying shopping spree that left little but a bad case of buyer's remorse as Japan's asset bubble burst and markets crashed in the early 1990s ... But in 2008, Japan Inc. is making a comeback. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Report: Japan won't create bailout body Sep 22, 2008
Japan won't create its own bailout body in response to a proposal by the U.S. government to buy up bad debts at American financial institutions, Kyodo News reported Monday. Japanese Vice Finance Minister Kazuyuki Sugimoto said the exposure of Japanese financial institutions to the U.S. bad loan crisis has been relatively limited ... Estimates vary on the exposure of major Japanese banks to Lehman Brothers, which filed for bankruptcy last week. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Russia's Lost Jewish Capital Sep 21, 2008
Send news tip to FOXNews. Scholar Claims to Find 1,000-Year-Old Jewish Capital. (Fox News)
Hayes supports oil industry Sep 20, 2008
Ron Murray Sr wrote on Sep 16, 2008 9:03 PM:" Dana, I remember back when Reagan was President the Japanese Trade Ambassador said the American Workers were Lazy and UnEducated. And no one from the Government or American Industry protested that statement.And the Toyota Corolla is the top selling car in the US even though it has been proven that the Chevy Malibu has a higher quality rating. And when you buy a Japanese car the money goes to Japan. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me for Americans to... (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
Behind the global crisis in the financial sector Sep 19, 2008
This gave the Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Canada and Swiss Central Bank access to dollars to dole out in their markets through short-term loans. (The Bank of Canada set up a swap arrangement with the Fed, but said it didn't actually need to use it at this time. (Globe and Mail)
LETTER: Ask important questions in this election Sep 18, 2008
Mike P wrote on Sep 15, 2008 9:14 PM:" Who funded and maintains that little plumbing job up there in Alaska? If not for that herculean pipe laying effort, would oil have bothered to be as heavily invested there? It is an empoverished place, for the most part. Oil was there, and companies wanted a hand out to pipe it, rather than valdeze it. Building the pipeline drove alaskas population to its current modest numbers. No pipeline, no bases. No pork, its right back to shacks in the wilderness,... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
WASH POST: Drudge-ology 101... Sep 18, 2008
5 miles per gallon in two decades, both china and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon. Not true. (The Drudge Report)
High-tech travel gear Sep 17, 2008
Case in point: Last month, while traveling from northern Japan to the French Alps, Neville employed a custom collection of gadgets and tech toys to stay occupied and at peace through a whirlwind of trains, taxis, concourses, transfers and jet flights. "I call it my sleep kit," he says of the products, which includes a noise-canceling headset. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Trip to China offers students new perspectives Sep 17, 2008
At the Sept. 4 school board meeting, Hannon was asked to develop a proposal that would outline procedures to make the trip to China an annual affair, similar to one students take to Misato, Japan. Hannon said he has been welcomed back by Chinese officials, but the board wanted a clear explanation about how the trips will be funded. (Winona Daily News, MN)
An age of enlightenment Sep 16, 2008
"I was married for 30 years, but he lived in Japan," she explains. "I lived with many other men.". (Globe and Mail)
Chinese dairy blamed for delayed baby milk warning Sep 14, 2008
TOKYO - Japan was searching Sunday for an unidentified foreign submarine detected in its territorial waters earlier in the day, the Defense Ministry said. HEALTH NEWS. (News Central Portal Site, CA)
Taiwan Braces for Floods, Mudslides as Typhoon Sinlaku Hits for Third Day Sep 14, 2008
Updated: New York, Sep 14 03:19 London, Sep 14 08:19 Tokyo, Sep 14 16:19. Taiwan's Moon Festival Begins Amid Floods, Power Cuts (Update1). (Bloomberg -- Japan)
