
Anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat, Yushin Maru 3, collided in icy Antarctic waters in the second major clash this year in increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet.
The speed boat, "
Ady Gil",...
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Toyota will recall 270,000 Prius hybrid vehicles over brake problems in the United States and Japan, a report said Friday, while the beleaguered auto giant launched an investigation into possible problems with the brakes in two more hybrids including the...
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“I deeply regret that I caused concern among so many people,” Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, said at a news conference on Friday. “We will do our utmost to regain the trust of our customers.”
He also pledged that...
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On Thursday, NHK announced that V6's Yoshihiko Inohara (33) will serve as a regular newscaster on the network's new morning show, "Asaichi." The show will air weekdays at 8:15am, starting on March 29.
NHK revealed its plans for a large-scale morning...
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A Chinese activist who has spent more than three months living inside Tokyo's international airport said Tuesday that Chinese officials have given him permission to return home.
Feng Zhenghu has been camping out at Narita International Airport since early November to...
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On Sunday, Yoshiki announced that
X Japan intends to play at this year's
Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for August 6-8 in Chicago. Tentative reports of
X Japan performing there first surfaced last month, but now it appears that the possibility will...
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Singer and actress Seiko Matsuda (47) is the next Japanese celebrity to appear in an American television drama. It has been learned that she will play a Japanese journalist in an upcoming episode of the crime drama “Bones.”
Currently in its...
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The Tokyo government is considering running the Toei Chikatetsu 24 hours a day, due to the increasing number of flights that will be coming into Haneda airport. Currently the subways shut down at 1am city wide. The Toei Subway...
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