Staff writer Worn out spending precious weekends cleaning the house? Then it may be time to turn to Jeff Campbell, who claims to be "America's home care expert." "Life is faster and busier, and the pace of the world is different than it used to be," ...
Staff writer MIYAZAKI -- With the cloning of sheep and cows in the news these days, Kazutoshi Kobayashi's "Jurassic Park" dream may not be so far-fetched. His dream: Resurrecting the woolly mammoth. Born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, 58-year-old Kobayashi in 1981 founded Field Co., which engages in ...
Reclamation project splits locals, power elite> Staff writer KAGOSHIMA — A resident of the city whose skyline is dominated by Sakurajima — one of four active volcanoes in Japan — has mixed feelings about the prefecture's plan to reclaim part of the Kinko Bay waterfront district ...
Staff writer A new law to solve troubles caused by Aum Shinrikyo should be legislated in the next extraordinary Diet session, newly appointed Justice Minister Hideo Usui said recently. The Justice Ministry is scheduled to submit to the extraordinary Diet session, to begin in early November, ...
Staff writer A project involving communication professionals and students in Japan and China will focus on advertising and how effective it becomes in market expansion. For China, which officially began its shift from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one in 1979, the demand for ...
Staff writer Choi Sun Ae feels she can finally take a step out of her deep despair, and not only because her legal rights are being restored. "Of course I'm glad that my status as a permanent resident of Japan is being restored," said Choi, 39, ...
Staff writer Protecting sources is one of the most important principles in journalism, one that a writers group believes is threatened by the proposed wiretapping law. The Upper House Judicial Affairs Committee began deliberations last week on a controversial package of bills to allow law enforcement ...
Staff writer On the final night of their spring vacation in Bangkok, Nao Yamamoto, 25, and a friend almost had their passports stolen at their hotel. A man claiming to be a receptionist called their room and asked for their passport numbers, saying it was necessary ...
A package of bills allowing investigators to wiretap private communications resulted from pressure from the global community calling on Japan to provide a legal framework to help efforts to crack down on international organized crime. The bills, however, were hastily passed without much public debate ...
Staff writer When Japanese look at recently published maps for high school classroom use, they may be in for a surprise -- textbook publishers and mapmakers have been changing names of locations to more closely match the pronunciations of local residents. For example, the katakana equivalent ...
