Stories tagged "japan"

The United States may soon remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist to try to salvage nuclear talks with Pyongyang but faces resistance from Japan, a source close to the negotiations on said Friday.

Japan's Nikkei share average plunged 9.6% on Friday for its biggest drop since the 1987 stock crash, wiping out $202 bln in market value on growing fears that the financial crisis will spark a global recession.

A restaurant in Japan decides to employ monkeys. Adorableness ensues.

Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs says over 70 percent of Japanese inns and hotels that didn't have foreign guests last year don't want any in the future either.

A RESTAURANT is employing a pair of monkey waiters to keep hungry customers happy

As we all know that Japan is famous for its Animation, Electronic Music, Comic Books, Gadgets and Video Games. One of the Japanese Mobile Company Dwango has

Streetlife, Harajuku, Japan, Fashion

Police in Izu responded to a report of a possible corpse in the woods by dispatching an investigation team: Fifteen officers were dispatched to the scene,

It would seem that Tyco and Gakken have had a glimpse of the future. At the recent CEATEC exhibition they presented a personal Magnetic Levitation (MagLev) transportation system, which uses a magnetic field to make the vehicle hover around 1.2-inches abov

Some of the work of Terunobu Fujimori, an architectural historian in Japan who creates architecture that appears traditional but whose surfaces hint at the uniqueness of his buildings