Tag: Japanese

Tiger to face Japanese women in charity event

Tiger Woods, who barely qualified for his own charity tournament, announced Monday that he will compete in a charity golf event in Japan on...

Japanese PM mulling visit to India

Japan’s new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is exploring the possibility of visiting India in November as a counterbalance to growing Chinese power in the...

Pakistan seeks Japanese help for establishing VHT plant

Pakistan has sought Japanese help for establishing a Vapour Heat Treatment Plant (VHT) to start commercial trade of fruit to various countries. Japan, which...

Japanese goods worth Rs 37.5m for rain-hit people

The Japanese government has decided to provide through the Japan International Cooperation Agency emergency relief goods such as tents, water purification equipment etc equivalent...

New Japanese PM unveils youthful cabinet

Japan's sixth new leader in five years has named a youthful cabinet lacking the usual political heavyweights, as he attempts to unite a divided...

Five-way race to pick new Japanese leader begins

Five lawmakers from Japan's ruling party on Saturday officially declared themselves candidates to succeed Prime Minister Naoto Kan as party leader and become the...

Arsenal get work permit for Japanese teenager Miyaichi

Japanese teenager Ryo Miyaichi has been granted a work permit to play for Arsenal next season on the grounds of being an "exceptional talent",...

Japanese prime minister vows nuclear-free future

A ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing was Saturday dominated by national soul-searching on atomic power as Japan's prime minister pledged...

Japanese Grand Prix to go ahead as planned

The Japanese MotoGP race planned for October 2 will go ahead as planned, the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) confirmed on Tuesday, after radiation risks...

Japanese ambassador speaks at karate tournament

The Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan, Hiroshi Oe said on Monday that Japan and Pakistan enjoy very cordial bilateral relations and that their bond of...

Japanese output sees 2nd biggest rise in May

Japan's industrial output rose at the second fastest pace on record in May, signalling a continuing recovery for the economy from the impact of...

Japanese ambassador visits Nine Zero

Newly appointed ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, Hiroshi Oe visited political headquarters of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) “Nine Zero.” Deputy Consul General Toshikazu Isomura, Second...

EPZA highlights Japanese concerns

A slew of Japanese investors wanted to invest in Pakistan after the meeting of President Zardari with Japanese Prime Minister in February, but they...

Kan to step down as PM by August

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan will step down by August if not earlier due to growing calls from the opposition and within his own...

Hara-kiri – a 3D film on Japanese ritual suicide

Anyone expecting a 3D film on Japanese ritual suicide by the director of such ultra-gory fare as "Ichi the Killer" to have guts and...

Don’t stigmatise nuclear evacuees: Japanese govt

TOKYO - The Japanese government on Tuesday urged "heartless" people, local authorities and businesses not to discriminate against evacuees from the area around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The call came after some evacuation centres demanded radiation-free certificates from people who lived near the plant, and following reports that hotels have turned them away and their children have been bullied.
"I cannot stress enough how regrettable it is that some heartless people

First radiation readings obtained from inside Japanese Reactor Buildings

TOKYO - Japanese nuclear regulators said that robots have obtained the first radiation readings from inside the stricken Fukushima power plant's tsunami-damaged reactor buildings.
The officials at Japan's nuclear safety agency said Monday that readings from inside the plant's number one and number three reactors show repair crews can go inside the buildings, but only for short periods of time.
The finding improves the chances that the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns