Nagano, Okinawa keep lead in average life spans of Japanese Dec 18, 2007
Men in Akita Prefecture have the second-shortest life span followed by Iwate, Kochi and Kagoshima prefectures, while women in Tochigi Prefecture have the second-shortest life span followed by Akita, Osaka and Ibaraki prefectures. In Shiga and Okayama prefectures, in western Japan, male residents saw the greatest gain in life span by 1. (News on Japan, Japan)
Official: Cubs sign Fukudome Dec 13, 2007
A native of Kagoshima, Japan, Kosuke Fukudome (pronounced KOH-skay foo-koo-DOUGH-may) has spent his entire nine-year pro career with the Chunichi Dragons, where he batted. 305 with a. (Chicago Cubs, TheInsiders.com)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Off the port bow: boom towns Nov 27, 2007
Itineraries include Japanese ports, such as Kagoshima, Hiroshima or Kobe, as well as a stop in Taiwan and a day or two in Shanghai, a city that seems to make a great leap forward every day. Even if you have visited these cities before, a new look will prove they are even more remarkable than you remembered. (Globe and Mail)
Earth's pictures taken by Japan's lunar explorer Nov 14, 2007
Japan launched an H-2A rocket carrying the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, the country's first lunar probe satellite, on Sept. 14 from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Kagoshima Prefecture. (Photo: people. (Xinhuanet, China)
Japan plans unmanned lunar mission Oct 10, 2007
TOKYO, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan launched an H-2A rocket carrying the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, the country's first lunar probe satellite, on Friday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Kagoshima Prefecture. The rocket, which is named "Kaguya" after Japanese ancient fable, lifted off as scheduled at 10:31 a.m. from the center on the Pacific off Japan's southern Kyushu Island. (Xinhuanet, China)
Japan Successfully Launches Lunar Explorer "Kaguya" Oct 9, 2007
The H-2A launch vehicle No. 13 carrying the Kaguya lifted off at 10:31 a.m. (1:31 a.m. GMT) from the Tanegashima Space Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. The Kaguya, the world's biggest lunar explorer since the Apollo program, which ended in 1972, is the second such satellite for Japan after small-sized MUSES-A, or "Hiten," launched in 1990 by a predecessor of JAXA.. (JCN Network, Japan)
Booze party led to Navy firing Sep 23, 2007
John J. Pinckney Jr. was relieved after a Navy inquiry revealed how he encouraged other officers and sailors even those on watch duty to drink during and after the Nov. 2 reception aboard the Halsey for dignitaries in Kagoshima, Japan ... On the evening of the Halsey's arrival in Kagoshima, Pinckney hosted a two-hour reception for 30 crew members and 40 guests on the ship's fantail. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Japan Launches Much-Delayed Lunar Orbiter Sep 16, 2007
A trusted source of newsand information since 1942. " Sakamoto says mapping the entire surface of the moon could be used to create an Internet resource, like a "Google Moon". He says data collected by Kaguya should help scientists' efforts to eventually set up a solar power station on the moon. Japan's space agency has touted the Kaguya mission as the largest lunar mission since Apollo, costing at least $280 million. This is not Japan's first mission to the moon. In 1990, it launched a small... (Voice of America)
Japan launches first lunar probe Sep 14, 2007
Japan launched an H-2A rocket carrying the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, the country's first lunar probe satellite, on Friday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Kagoshima Prefecture ... TOKYO, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan launched an H-2A rocket carrying the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, the country's first lunar probe satellite, on Friday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Kagoshima Prefecture ... Japan launched an H-2A rocket carrying the Selenological... (Xinhuanet, China)
Rubicon Japan settles $293m purchase Sep 7, 2007
Rubicon said with the addition of the properties, in Kagoshima, Chiba, Saitama and Fukushima, it now owns 22 properties in Japan, with a total value of $1. 21 billion. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
Riverside teacher to be honored guest in Japan Aug 23, 2007
Hutcheson and her team will be going to Kagoshima. The JFMF Program is sponsored by the Government of Japan and was launched in 1997 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Government Fulbright Program, which has enabled more than 6,000 Japanese citizens to study in the U.S. on Fulbright fellowships for graduate education and research. (The Town Crier, AR)
* Typhoon Usagi injures 18, forces thousands to flee Aug 4, 2007
An elderly woman was seriously injured in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu. "A sudden wind blew away the 81-year-old woman, breaking her left thigh," a municipal official said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Typhoon Usagi hits southern Japan Aug 3, 2007
Among the injured was an 81-year-old woman in the southern prefecture of Kagoshima who was blown over and broke her thigh, a local official said. A postman was injured after wind overturned his van, another official said. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Kyushu Braces for Approach of Typhoon Usagi Later Today; Flights Canceled Aug 2, 2007
The eye of Usagi, the fifth named storm of this year's western Pacific cyclone season, was 108 kilometers (65 miles) east of Kagoshima on Kyushu at 11 a.m. Tokyo time today, according to the latest advisory on Japan's Meteorological Agency Web site. The typhoon, with sustained winds of 156 kilometers per hour and gusts to 221 kilometers an hour, is ``extremely strong,'' the Japan weather agency said. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Hey, tourists, how do you like it here? Jul 28, 2007
Ryoko Ikemoto, Kagoshima, Japan By Toby Hatchett features@seacoastonline ... Ryoto Ikemoto,Kagoshima, Japan. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Typhoon lashes Japan coast Jul 16, 2007
An 11-year-old boy and a 76-year-old man drowned in separate incidents in Kyushu's Kagoshima prefecture, local officials said. In the southwestern prefecture of Tokushima, a 79-year-old man also drowned. (SBS - World News Australia)
* Southern islands of Japan pounded by Typhoon Manyi Jul 16, 2007
An 11-year-old boy and a 76-year-old man drowned in separate incidents in Kyushu's Kagoshima prefecture on Saturday, local officials said. "You are not safe here ... Many residents are elderly and we want them to evacuate by helping each other," Kagoshima University geologist Ryusuke Imura said while helping clear up after a landslide. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Man-yi spares Sasebo, gets weaker on the way to Tokyo Jul 16, 2007
Man-yi made landfall near Kagoshima at 2 p.m. Saturday, packing 98 mph sustained winds and 120 mph gusts as it crashed ashore ... Forecasts called for Man-yi to dump 27 inches of rain in Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures and 20 inches elsewhere on Kyushu into Sunday, the Asahi Shimbun reported ... Evacuation was ordered for 8,587 homes in Miyazaki, 5,882 in Kagoshima, 120 in Kumamoto, 197 in Oita and 245 in Koichi prefectures. (Stars and Stripes)
Japan typhoon Man-yi kills three Jul 16, 2007
The storm's victims were an 11-year-old boy and a man in his 70s who drowned in separate incidents in Kyushu's Kagoshima prefecture on Saturday. On Sunday, rescuers found the body of a 79-year-old farmer who was swept into a river in the prefecture of Tokushima on Shikoku island. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Typhoon Man-Yi leaves 3 dead, scores injured Jul 15, 2007
Man-Yi, the season's fourth typhoon, landed on the Osumi peninsula in Kyushu's Kagoshima prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time yesterday, the agency said. Two people died in Kagoshima yesterday, according to a Kyodo News report. (News on Japan, Japan)
Powerful typhoon lashes Japan coast Jul 15, 2007
An 11-year-old boy and a 76-year-old man drowned in separate incidents as the typhoon made landfall and wreaked havoc on Kyushu's Kagoshima prefecture yesterday, municipal officials said. A 79-year-old man was also drowned in a river in the southwestern prefecture of Tokushima. (The Age)
Typhoon Man-Yi Injures 34 in Japan Jul 14, 2007
A 63-year-old woman suffered fractures after she was knocked over by the wind early Saturday in Kyushu's Kagoshima prefecture (state), local official Akihiro Waki said ... Over 5,500 people evacuated across Okinawa and Kagoshima on Saturday, officials said. (Fox News)
Typhoon lashes southern Japan, kills one Jul 14, 2007
A 11-year-old boy died after he was swept along by a fast-moving river while trying to pick up a ball, a police official in southern Kagoshima prefecture said ... NHK said several houses and a post office collapsed under a landslide in Kagoshima, while strong winds and landslides damaged dozens of homes in other areas. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Typhoon Heads for Japan, Threatening Heavy Rain Jul 13, 2007
Heavy rain warnings were issued for Okinawa and Kagoshima on Kyushu, along with an area in central Japan. The storm is currently predicted to come close to Kyushu on Saturday before weakening and heading northeast, brushing by Tokyo sometime on Sunday. (Planet Ark, United States)
Flooding In Japan Causes Mass Evacuations Jul 7, 2007
Media reports said train services in Kumamoto, as well as neighboring Nagasaki and Kagoshima prefectures, were halted or largely delayed. The Meteorological Agency warned of further landslides and flooding in southern Japan through the weekend. (CBS News)
With a boost from the Internet, Shinto makes comeback in Japan May 17, 2007
Troupes of dancers from a nearby neighborhood and from Kagoshima, in the south of Japan, performed in the same courtyard. On a rainy midweek day came a steady stream of visitors, some to pray, others to sightsee and some to do both. (Washington Times)
The Hyakugo Bank and Nihon Unisys Introduce BankVision, the World's First Full Banking System for Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) and SQL Server(TM) May 7, 2007
Nihon Unisys, in turn, will continue to expand the functionality of BankVision in order to meet the needs of client banks by sharing the knowledge gained from this project with banks that are planning to adopt the system, including Kiyo Bank, Chikuho Bank, Bank of Saga, Eighteenth Bank, and Kagoshima Bank ... The consortium currently comprises 9 banks: Akita Bank, Yamanashi Chuo Bank, Hyakugo Bank, Kiyo Bank, Chikuho Bank, Bank of Saga, Eighteenth Bank, Oita Bank and Kagoshima Bank. (BusinessWire)
Japan's way of judicial killing Apr 8, 2007
Critics of police methods have been heartened by the acquittal last month in Kagoshima District Court of 12 people accused of vote-buying in 2003 prefectural elections ... The Kagoshima police chief who presided over the investigation, Katsuji Inaba, has since been promoted to a senior position in the Kanto National Police Agency, suggesting there seems little real momentum to reform the criminal justice system in Japan. (News on Japan, Japan)
Japan embraces American managers Mar 12, 2007
" Families are another consideration. Hillman says he keeps returning to Japan because his two children, 10 and 13, enjoy attending an international school in Sapporo, where the Fighters are based. Valentine's wife, Mary, spends part of the season in Japan but also returns home to Connecticut, where she raises collies as show dogs. Different mentality Like all managers, Valentine, working in Kagoshima, is most comfortable in uniform and on the field. The Japanese players have a lot to do with... (USA Today -- Sports)
Japan's fourth spy satellite in orbit Feb 25, 2007
An H-IIA rocket carrying two satellites blasts skyward from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Saturday ... Both satellites were placed in orbit about 20 minutes after the 1:40 p.m. launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said. (The Japan Times)
Japan successfully launches H-2A radar satellite Feb 25, 2007
The launch of the radar satellite, which is the second one of the second pair of the four-satellite scheme, was initially scheduled for Feb. 15, but was postponed twice due to bad weather conditions around the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Kagoshima prefecture. The first pair, consists of a radar satellite and an optical one, was launched successfully in March 2003, followed by a failed launch of a second set due to rocket problems later that year. (Xinhuanet, China)
What's it like to be a journalist on the road? Feb 24, 2007
KAGOSHIMA I was interested in watching Yuu Darvish pitch in the Nippon Ham Fighters intrasquad game yesterday, just because I had heard he's a good pitcher with a chance to get a lot better. But sitting on the plane from Okinawa to Kagoshima, I looked over at Kaz's Japanese newspaper and saw a color photo of Darvish taking up three-quarters of the front page of Sports Nippon, a national sports daily. (News on Japan, Japan)
An aerial view shows the close up of U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald W. Reagan's bow section as it sails into the Sasebo Port, western Japan, Saturday, Feb. 24 2007. The newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier made a port call at Sasebo U.S. naval base Saturday. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) Saturday, February 24, 20:39 Japan successfully launches satellites to complete spy system Feb 24, 2007
The Japanese government successfully launched an H-2A rocket to carry a second radar satellite and an experimental third optical satellite into space Saturday from a launch site in Kagoshima Prefecture to complete its spy system for full global coverage ... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency had originally intended to launch the rocket on Feb. 15, but postponed it three times due to thunder and poor weather conditions at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima prefecture. (News on Japan, Japan)
Japan delays spy satellite launch due to bad weather Feb 22, 2007
The Aerospace Exploration Agency said on Wednesday that it is has decided to postpone the launch of an H-2A rocket to send a intelligence-gathering or spy satellite into space from Thursday to Saturday due to poor weather around the launch site in southern Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture. The radar satellite is the second one of the second pair of spy satellites in Japan's plan of building a global information gathering system. (People's Daily Online, China)
JAL flights delayed after passenger threatens crew member Feb 21, 2007
(Kyodo) _ A male passenger on a Japan Airlines flight brandished what appeared to be a knife at a cabin crew member Tuesday evening when he deplaned at Kagoshima Airport and then ran off, triggering a security alert that caused the cancellation of one flight and delays to a few others, airline officials said ... The man was on flight JL3736, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 service from Amami-Oshima Airport in Kagoshima Prefecture, with 146 passengers and crew members, the officials said. (News on Japan, Japan)
Damaged Japanese Whaling Ship May Resume Hunting Near Coast of Antartica Feb 20, 2007
The 27-year-old from Kagoshima Prefecture was found on the Nisshin Maru's second deck ``close to where the fire began,'' it said. To contact the reporter on this story: Emma O'Brien in Wellington at. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
A H-2A 10 rocket carrying a spy satellite lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture in September 2006. Japan has delayed the launch of its latest spy satellite, which would give Tokyo the ability to eavesdrop anywhere in the world each day and better monitor North Korea . It is the last of four spy satellites that Japan decided to put into orbit in 1998 after it was shocked by North Korea firing a missile over Japan's main island.(AFP/Jiji Press/File) [full report Feb 16, 2007
The liftoff of the H-2A rocket carrying the satellite was delayed for the second straight day due to the weather at the base in southern Kagoshima Prefecture, a space agency spokesman said. A new time was not immediately set. (News on Japan, Japan)
Dazzle Impresses With Its Ambience; Food Fails to Sparkle: Tokyo Dining Feb 8, 2007
Dazzle has dozens from New Zealand's 42 Below to Japanese vodka from Kagoshima made from sweet potatoes. Masa suggested the house cocktail, a Dazzling, made with champagne, vodka and crushed strawberries. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Tokyo: A capital in bloom Jan 31, 2007
In Kagoshima, on the island of Kyushu, women with shovels "bury" you in hot volcanic sand. Ibusuki Hakusuikan () costs 20,000 (84). (News on Japan, Japan)
Japan to list Mt. Fuji for World Heritage candidates Jan 29, 2007
Currently, Japan has 10 sites registered as World Cultural Heritage sites including Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, Hiroshima Peace Memorial and others, as well as three as World Natural Heritage sites -- the Shirakami-Sanchi mountain range in Aomori and Akita prefectures, Yakushima island in Kagoshima prefecture and the Shiretoko area in Hokkaido. Editor: Yao Runping. (Xinhuanet, China)
MASAKI: Japan Cultural Looter? Jan 23, 2007
Historic monuments of Kyoto and Nara are among the Japanese properties on UNESCO's World Heritage List, along with such sites as Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture, Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture and shrines and temples in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture and Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) in Hiroshima Prefecture. . (Zmag.org)
