| |   Kashima beats Kobe to stay top in the J-League
| (AP) - KASHIMA, Japan - Takuya Nozawa scored twice as Kashima Antlers defeated Vissel Kobe 3-0 to maintain top spot in the J-League on Saturday. | Nozawa's header in the eighth minute gave Vissel a 1-0 lead a...
Let's Ease Up On China About the Yuan
| "A currency, to be perfect, should be absolutely invariable in value." David Ricardo, in Proposals for an Economical and Sound Currency, 1816, sec. ii. | A past Wall Street Journal headline tells the tal...
Kyodo news summary -4-+
TOKYO, July 31 (AP) - (Kyodo)—---------- Most A-bomb survivors dissatisfied with Japan's disarmament work | OSAKA - Nearly nine out of 10 atomic bomb survivors who visited New York on the occasion of a U.N...
Honda can go big, too
| Honda is well known for its fuel-efficient cars. But the Japan-based automaker also sells America's second most popular sport-utility vehicle that can accommodate at least seven people. | The sizable Honda Pi...
Rescue Robot Invented In Japan
| Japanese emergency services are planning on trying out a small tank-like rescue robot that can search rubble for survivors and deliver water, food or cellphones into the disaster zones. | Eiji Koyanagi, a rob...
Golf: Sun Chlorella Classic 3rd-round results+
OTARU, Japan, July 31 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Leading scores Saturday after the third round of the Sun Chlorella Classic at Otaru Country Club (7,471 yards, par 72) in Hokkaido (Japanese unless noted): Tadahiro Tak...
Most A-bomb survivors dissatisfied with Japan's disarmament work+
OSAKA, July 31 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Nearly nine out of 10 atomic bomb survivors who visited New York on the occasion of a U.N. conference in May reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty expressed dissatisf...
New Korea For Shamed World Cup Coach
| North Korea's football coach has reportedly been punished for the team's poor performance at the World Cup by being forced to work as a builder. | Kim Jong-Hun received the shameful sentence after he and his ...
China closer to becoming second-largest economy
| A senior Beijing official's reference to China as the "world's second-largest economy" has sparked excited speculation that Asia's new powerhouse may have already reached a long-looming milestone by surpassin...
50-year-old sprinter Ottey is oldest at Euros
| The Associated Press Share | thefresnobee_994:/2010/07/31/2024973/50-year-old-sprinter-ottey-is.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | Similar stories: | 50-year-old to compete...
China overtakes Japan as No 2 economy: FX chief
| BEIJING – China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. | Migrant labourer...
JAL to spend $2.8 bn to procure 65 aircraft: Report
TOKYO: Japan Airlines plans to spend 241.5 billion yen ($2.8 billion) in the next five years to procure 65 aircraft as it rejigs its fleet toward smaller, more fuel-efficient airplanes, Jiji news agency reporte...
Indonesian batik maestro who revived Japanese-influenced batik dies+
JAKARTA, July 31 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Indonesian batik master Iwan Tirta, who revived Japanese- influenced "hokokai batik," died Saturday morning from various illnesses. He was 75. | His assistant Tisna confirme...
Not for the Faint of Heart
| IF YOU like your fashion chicly understated and subtly elegant, Korean fashion will absolutely freak you out. Exaggerated, starkly colorful and styled to an inch of its life, it's all about 'the cult of cute ...
Jarmila Groth in sight of first WTA final
| AUSTRALIAN Jarmila Groth is eyeing her first WTA final after defeating defending champion Vera Dushevina of Russia 7-5 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Istanbul Cup. | Third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova al...
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