RSS Feed for Japan Today http://www.japantoday.com/feed Mon, 12 May 2008 10:37:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/kanemi-poisoning-incident-victims-to-file-damages-suit Victims of a 1968 mass food poisoning incident caused by contaminated cooking oil made by Kanemi Soko KK decided Sunday to file a damages suit… Mon, 12 May 2008 03:13:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/quakes-rock-hokkaido-miyazaki An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 jolted Nemuro and vicinity on Japan's northeastern Hokkaido island and another tremor with a magnitude of 4.1… Sun, 11 May 2008 16:36:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/narita-airport-to-send-letters-asking-landowners-to-sell-plots Narita International Airport Corp has decided to send letters as early as June to about 1,200 people, who own land the company wants to purchase,… Sun, 11 May 2008 07:24:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/more-than-20-of-school-library-budget-misappropriated More than 20% of the central government's budget of around 20 billion yen provided to municipal governments for the purchase of books for school libraries… Sun, 11 May 2008 03:39:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/govt-picks-windsor-hotel-toyas-nakamura-as-chief-g-8-summit-chef The Foreign Ministry has selected Katsuhiro Nakamura, the executive chef of the Windsor Hotel Toya, the venue for July's Group of Eight summit, as chief… Sat, 10 May 2008 17:53:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/h5n1-bird-flu-detected-in-another-dead-swan-in-hokkaido The deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been detected in a dead swan found Monday beside Lake Saroma in eastern Hokkaido, the Hokkaido prefectural… Sat, 10 May 2008 13:55:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/insecticide-found-mixed-in-canned-coffee-sold-in-tokyo A can of coffee sold from a vending machine in Tokyo has been found to be mixed with insecticide, the health ministry said Friday. A… Sat, 10 May 2008 05:46:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/drugstores-to-remove-sulfur-product-in-response-to-suicide-attempts An industry association for drugstore chains decided Friday to urge its member stores to remove from their shelves a sulfur-containing product believed to have been… Sat, 10 May 2008 04:53:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/us-sounds-out-japan-to-consider-importing-beef-from-cloned-cows The United States has unofficially sounded out Japan about considering importing beef and processed food and dairy products from somatic cell-cloned cows and their offspring… Sat, 10 May 2008 03:50:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/escalator-at-nagoya-subway-suddenly-stops-slightly-injuring-11 An escalator at a Nagoya subway station suddenly stopped and briefly moved in the opposite direction on Friday morning, causing 11 people to sustain minor… Sat, 10 May 2008 03:44:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/kit-developed-to-quickly-diagnose-lethal-bird-flu-virus-in-humans The International Medical Center of Japan said Friday that it has developed a diagnostic kit that can determine in 15 minutes if a person has… Sat, 10 May 2008 00:41:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-to-give-additional-10-million-aid-to-cyclone-hit-myanmar Japan decided Friday to give additional emergency aid of up to $10 million to cyclone hit-Myanmar through U.N. agencies and to offer the dispatch of… Fri, 09 May 2008 11:28:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/gsdf-officer-attempts-suicide-in-front-of-diet-building A 20-year-old Ground Self-Defense Force officer tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself with a dagger in front of the Diet building Thursday evening, police… Fri, 09 May 2008 06:31:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/green-sea-turtle-migrates-over-2000-km-from-guam-to-okinawa A green sea turtle has been found to have migrated more than 2,000 kilometers from around Guam to reach waters around a remote island in… Fri, 09 May 2008 01:51:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/m-67-quake-hits-eastern-japan-regions An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit extensive areas centering on the Kanto region including Tokyo in the early hours of Thursday injuring six… Thu, 08 May 2008 14:49:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/yokosuka-residents-call-for-referendum-on-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier A group of residents in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, filed a request Wednesday with Yokosuka Mayor Ryoichi Kabaya for a local referendum on whether to support… Thu, 08 May 2008 05:57:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-drops-to-31st-in-mothers-index Japan was ranked 31st among 146 nations in an annual survey that helps document the best and worst places to be a mother, a nongovernmental… Thu, 08 May 2008 02:42:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/kawasaki-city-ordered-to-pay-y49-bil-over-land-pollution The Environmental Dispute Coordination Commission ordered the municipal government of Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday to pay some 4.88 billion yen to Tokyu Corp for… Thu, 08 May 2008 02:33:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/sets-of-centenary-coins-for-japanese-migration-to-brazil-on-sale Japan Mint said Wednesday it has started to accept mail orders for a total of 142,000 sets of a 500 yen coin to commemorate the… Thu, 08 May 2008 00:19:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/ueno-zoo-visitors-sign-condolence-book-for-panda More than 10,000 people have signed a book expressing their condolences for the recent death of Ling Ling, a male which was the only giant… Wed, 07 May 2008 15:18:00 +0100