Sunday 28 April 2013

Dreamliner conducts first Japan flight since grounding over batteries

A Dreamliner carrying Boeing and All Nippon Airways execs lands safely at Haneda airport to assure Japanese travelers that its new batteries are safe.

Takeda loses cancer suit over Actos

Takeda Pharmaceutical is told to pay $6.5 million to a man who sued Asia's largest drugmaker for failing to warn that its Actos diabetes drug ...

LDP’s pick heads for victory in Upper House by-election in Yamaguchi

Exit polls show former Shimonoseki Mayor Kiyoshi Ejima clinching a by-election in Yamaguchi Prefecture, tying the LDP with the DPJ in the House of Councilors.

Crown Prince, Princess depart for Netherlands

Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako leave for the Netherlands to attend the coronation of the new Dutch king in her first official overseas ...

Struggling Hollywood yields to China’s growing film clout

Coming soon to a theater near you: China's Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of ...

Politicians roll up sleeves at Net event

Political parties over the weekend competed for the support of heavy Internet users at an event hosted by an online video-sharing site in the runup ...

Nuclear arms card for Japan

The Foreign Ministry has been conducting clandestine studies about the potential development of nuclear weapons in Japan, and the U.S. is nervous about it.

24-hour transportation in Tokyo

Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose is thinking of allowing some bus routes to run 24 hours a day and extending subway operating hours to avoid the ...

China’s stealth wars of acquisition

China is waging stealth wars — without firing a shot — to change the status quo of the South and East China seas, its border ...

Bilingual beauty, straight and permed

Beauty must be a bilingual thing. At least that's the impression one gets from looking at signs outside hairdressers, beauty parlors and similar types of ...

World’s fastest land animal in race to survive

The cheetah, the world's fastest land animal, survived mass extinction during the last ice age 10,000 years ago. But it has taken just the last few ...

Balentien powers Swallows to sweep of Giants

Wladimir Balentien took hero's honors for the second night in a row, redeeming himself after a fatal fielding miscue with a go-ahead two-run homer in ...