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Third-year university student Saki Fujii flips through a meticulously kept diary of her six-month job hunt and eyes the busy week of interviews ahead - another step on the treadmill for one of Japan's would-be ...
US bows to EU, Japan in 'zeroing' trade row
WASHINGTON ' The United States on Monday said it has bowed to demands from the European Union and Japan to end its controversial 'zeroing' antidumping practice. | US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a stat...
US reaches deal to avoid Japan, EU trade sanctions
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday it has struck a deal sparing US exporters from hundreds of millions of dollars in European and Japanese trade retaliation in a dispute ove...
Samsung surges ahead as Japanese trio falter
| Japan's biggest makers of TVs, phones, and chips say they'll lose about US$19 billion ($22.8 billion) this year - about three-quarters of what Samsung will spend on research to lengthen the lead over its comp...
US ends 9-year spat with EU, Japan over dumping
| GENEVA — The United States has ended a nine-year spat with the European Union and Japan over the way Washington imposes anti-dumping charges on foreign goods. | U.S. trade officials say under a deal signed ...
Prototype headphones detect which ear they are in
Prototype headphones which can tell which ear they are in have been developed by Japanese researchers. | The earphones use proximity sensors to detect if they are in the right or left ear in order to play the c...
US bows to EU, Japan in 'zeroing' trade row
| AFP - The United States on Monday said it has bowed to demands from the European Union and Japan to end its controversial "zeroing" antidumping practice. | US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a statement...
Nice Art: Rokuro Taniuchi
| Rokuro Taniushi is a Japanese illustrator of the 50’s on who has been called “the kawaii Norman Rockwell of Japan” for painting some 1300 covers for the influential weekly magazine Shukan Sh...
There is More to Transit Than Just Trains; There Has To Be Something at the Destination.
| /CC BY 2.0 | Tyler Brûlé founded Wallpaper* and Monocle, and has been in a lot of cities and on a lot of trains. He makes a very good point in The Financial Times that just building a transit line isn't eno...
IOC Awards Broadcast Rights in Japan for 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games
| The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the Japan Consortium the broadcast rights in Japan for the XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014) in Sochi, Russia, and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (2016) in Rio...
Living on the edge: Bungalow stuck on seventh storey of college building in impressive art ...
| It’s a fascinating piece of architecture that is leaving stunned observers wondering how on earth a bungalow has crash landed on top of a university building. | Do Ho Suh, of Seoul, South Korea, designe...
Intriguing matchups on tap as season nears
| Now that football has played its big game, baseball fans have dozens and dozens of big games to look forward to during a 2012 season that will reflect major changes made this winter. | With the Super Bowl dec...
Twitter hits a peak of 12K tweets per second during Super Bowl
| Twitter users sent 12,233 tweets per second at the end of last night’s big game. | The Super Bowl halftime show featuring Madonna saw 10,245 tweets per second. | Just one month ago, the service saw 9,42...
United States ends 9-year spat with European Union, Japan over anti-dumping measures
| GENEVA - The United States has ended a nine-year spat with the European Union and Japan over the way Washington imposes anti-dumping charges on foreign goods. | U.S. trade officials say under a deal signed Mo...
Spain Needs $466 Million in Carbon Credits to Meet Kyoto Limit
| Spain may need to buy at least 355 million euros ($466 million) of carbon emissions permits to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, Agriculture Minister Miguel Arias-Canete said. | The country will ...
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