“I deeply regret that I caused concern among so many people,” Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, said at a news confer....
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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, “As....
6 Feb 5:49 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Singer and actress Seiko Matsuda (47) is the next Japanese celebrity to appear in an American television drama. It has been learned that sh....
4 Feb 11:53 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan’s relative poverty rate as of 2007 stood at 15.7 percent, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced last October. This marks....
26 Jan 11:07 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Momoe Yamaguchi (山口 百恵, Yamaguchi Momoe, born January 17, 1959) is a former Japanese singer, actress, and idol whose career lasted ....
18 Jan 5:42 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa vowed Saturday to fight on despite the arrests of his key aides over a political f....
17 Jan 7:49 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan’s population is expected to have declined further in with the number of Japanese babies born in the country in the year estimated t....
3 Jan 2:36 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The towering cliffs of Tojimbo, with their sheer drops into the raging, green Sea of Japan, are a top tourist destination, but Yukio Shige ....
19 Dec 6:40 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Actor Hiroki Matsukata, right, lands a 325-kilogram bluefin tuna last Sunday. (Photo courtesy of the city of Hagi) A giant tuna landed by ac....
29 Nov 9:49 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

In the chaotic world after the Cold War and the September 11 2001 attacks, Japanese author Haruki Murakami says metaphors can be even more p....
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