Topic: Japan
The Ministry of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year has some welcome news for research, including a new teaching assistant program to employ graduate students, dramatically expanded funding for the space program, and a big increase in support for grants ...
The topic was the safety woes of Toyota, but the hearing at the US Congress could also have been a study in cross-cultural communication as Japanese formality met American bluntness.Toyota chief apologies "There is a huge perception gap," said Weston Konishi, an ...
Embattled Toyota said Tuesday it is voluntarily fixing 1.3 million vehicles in North America for engine oil leaks but denied the campaign is a recall because it did not affect safety.In an email statement received early Tuesday in Tokyo, the company said ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - The top U.S. Marine in the Pacific said on Friday that his forces needed to be based on the southern island of Okinawa for strategic reasons, as Tokyo struggles to resolve a dispute with Washington over relocating a base.The ...
In the wake of the Massachusetts massacre, inquiring minds are wondering " Today we have clarification from President Obama that the house will not accept the senate version straight up, and reconciliation is likely off the table. President Obama signaled on Wednesday ...
Japan may pledge "several hundred million dollars" for Afghan national reconciliation at a January 28 summit in London on promoting stability in the war-torn country, a US senator said Tuesday. "There is a real hope that Japan has a particular interest in ...
If you look at the past 97 blogs I have written, you'll probably see that I haven't said anything about politics and be it far from me to start adding my input on the ever-timely and annoying topic; but I have an ...
Here are some highlights of President Barack Obama's upcoming weeklong trip to AsiaA day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's weeklong trip to Asia: Departs for Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea, through Nov. 19. En route to Tokyo, Japan, stops at Elmendorf ...
If you think "Sony" or "Toyota" when you think of Japan, you might just be as clueless as I've been about "the nation's postwar order, which relied on colossal public works spending," according to the New York Times.. As reporter Martin Fackler ...
Odds-on favourites Chicago went out in the first round of voting on the hosts the 2016 Olympic Games here on Friday.They received the least amount of votes despite President Barack Obama flying over to make a personal appeal earlier on Friday.Rio de ...
