September 2011
8 posts
Mobile convenience stores soon to bring services... →
Japan will launch this month the mobile convenience store trucks which will deliver the basic products and services to the hardest tsunami-hit regions of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. Family…
Radioactive cesium may be brought back by Ocean in... →
Radioactive substances from the Fukushima nuclear facility which spilled into the ocean in the aftermath of the March quake and tsunami may reach the Japanese coasts again in 20-30 years,…
Sony’s PlayStation Vita hits Japan on Dec.... →
Japanese electronics maker Sony has announced it will launch on the domestic market its new-generation portable gaming console PlayStation Vita on December 17. Despite the analysts’…
Suzuki dumps Volkswagon →
TOKYO (AP) — Suzuki Motor Corp. said Monday it will abort its alliance with Volkswagen AG following a nearly two-year marriage that never worked. Even at what appeared to be the end of the…
Jealous on your boyfriend? Spy him on his mobile →
A new application for the Android mobile operating system can be secretly installed on somebody else’s phone to track the exact location of the person, a matter that may rise serious privacy…
Japanese babies will live till 86, world’s... →
The babies born in Japan in the past few years will live on average until the age of 86, a new study says, underlining that the country has the highest life expectancy on a global scale. The…
Japan economy shrank more than initial report →
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy contracted the April-June quarter at an annual rate of 2.1 percent, worse than the initial estimate, the government said Friday, underlining the damage from the…
Kan: I felt the “spine-chilling”... →
Former prime minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, said he experienced a “spine-chilling” feeling when he thought that Tokyo might have had to be evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear…
