By William Pesek A question is cropping up more and more on the streets of Tokyo: male or female? It's not an exaggeration to point out that many young Japanesemen are looking a bit ladylike. The phenomenon is an obsession on television talk shows, and it...
The Group of Eight major nations likely will urge the international community to take an integrated, whole-country approach to achieve the U.N. goals of eliminating poverty in African countries at a summit meeting that will open in Italy on Wednesday, according to the...
TOYAMA--Hidenobu Ha-shimoto and his wife, the only residents of a mountainous community here, will soon rely on old-fashioned technology for their energy needs: a water wheel. They are in the vanguard of an experiment that could transform life in remote rural...
The brouhaha over the president of Japan Post Holdings Co. that led to the resignation of a Cabinet minister ended in typical conservative Japanesebusinessfashion Monday when the re-appointment of Yoshifumi Nishikawa was approved at a shareholders' meeting. Prime...
Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE WASHINGTON (Map) - WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with...
I first came to Japan more than 35 years. At that time I was a private in the U.S. Army, stationed at Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture. This was my first real experience in a foreign country--before then I'd been on a few drunken-wild car trips from New York north to...
Japan Post Holdings Co. President Yoshifumi Nishikawa submitted a report Wednesday to Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Tsutomu Sato outlining his plans to improve operations at the state-owned company. The report was issued at the behest of the ministry over...
Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - PepsiCo Inc. (PEP, News) on Wednesday said it struck a deal to buy 20 percent of Japan's largest snack company, with which it will produce and sell snacks and other foods in the Asian nation. PepsiCo, the parent of Frito-Lay snacks and...