Sunday 5th February, 2012

• Many young Japanese men 'turned off by sex'

  The Japan News.Net

  Young Japanese males are apathetic about dating and are disinterested in sex, a new study has said. Once a male chauvinist paradise, Japan is suddenly the home of assertive women and so-called ...

• Brad Penny signs with Japan's Softbank Hawks

  The Globe and Mail

  The Softbank Hawks of Japan's Pacific League have signed former major league pitcher Brad Penny to a one-year contract. Softbank announced the signing of free agent Penny on its website ...

• Japan tops Slovenia to advance to playoffs at Fed Cup

  General Sources

  Polona Hercog 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1 on Sunday as Japan advanced to the Fed Cup World Group playoffs. Morita recovered from a sluggish start in the first set to give Japan an insurmountable 3-0 lead ...

• Japanese midfielder Makoto Hasebe extends contract with Wolfsburg

  People's Daily

  Japanese international and Wolfsburg midfielder Makoto Hasebe extends his running contract until 2014 with the German Bundesliga champion 2009, the club announced on Thursday. Midfielder Hasebe ...

• Four Japanese tourists seriously injured in Australia crash

  People's Daily

  Four tourists were seriously injured early on Thursday in a crash involving a minibus and a truck in Bundaberg, 220 miles north of Brisbane in Australia's Queensland, the Department of ...

• Sony names Maya Diab as middle east brand Ambassador for Alpha NEX

  Mena Report

  Kingston Holdings, has appointed Four Communications, for a region-wide public relations programme to support the group's strong growth in the Middle East and North ...

• Japanese Business Delegations To Visit Bahrain This Year

  Bahrain News Agency

  Manama-Feb 5-(BNA) Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Dr. Essam Abdulla Fakhro received Japanese Ambassador to Bahrain Shigeki Sumi and hailed good political and economic relations. ...

• US, Japan agree to partial Marine transfer from Okinawa

  News on Japan

  TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States and Japan have agreed to tweak a six-year-old agreement on Marines based on the southern island of Okinawa, allowing Washington to deploy forces to the ...

• Japan Inc. Suppliers Cut Jobs

  General Sources

  Sumco Corp., a supplier to Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp., said yesterday it will cut 1,300 jobs. Auto windshield maker Nippon Sheet Glass Co., which sells to Mazda Motor Corp., said it will cut 3,500 ...

• Collecting: Early Japanese Imports Find Admirers

  New York Times

  Mr. Imai, who lives in Southern California, owns a 1971 Datsun 510 wagon and a 1972 Datsun pickup. The vehicles’ peculiar silhouettes, diminutive scale and heavy use of chrome trim are typical ...

• ExxonMobil To Restructure Holdings In Japan

  Oil and Gas Online

  TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExxonMobil and TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K have entered into an agreement which will result in the restructuring of ExxonMobil's holdings in Japan. Under the terms of ...

• US to move 4,700 Marines from Japan to Guam: reports

  West Australian

  TOKYO (AFP) - Tokyo and Washington have agreed to move 4,700 Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam in a bid to revive a stalled plan for the realignment of US forces in Japan, ...

• Japan, US negotiate defence plan

  General Sources

  Senior officials of the foreign and defence ministries of the two countries will meet in Washington on Monday to start full-fledged negotiations on a new realignment plan, according to the ...

• Japan: Australian activists address global anti-nuclear conference

  Green Left Online

  Participants in the January 14-15 anti-nuclear conference in Tokyo. Photo by John Tutty. Five anti-nuclear activists travelled from Australia to attend the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free ...

• Debris from Japan earthquake moves closer to West Coast

  The Seattle Times

  As the one-year anniversary of the devastating March 11, 2011, Japanese earthquake approaches, and debris from the ensuing tsunami moves closer to the West Coast, a group of Oregon agencies, ...

• Sony: can a new CEO save the struggling tech giant?

  News on Japan

  Recently, however, the company has struggled. Led until this week by Welshman Sir Howard Stringer, Sony has battled floods in Japan, a fire at its main warehouse in London, a rising Yen and a ...

• Kobayashi wins chicken wing crown

  News on Japan

  NEW YORK — Multiple hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi has won an annual chicken wing eating contest in Philadelphia, downing a record 337 wings in 30 ...

• Our woods may be home to a 'new ' spider species

  News on Japan

  An apparently new species of spider has been found in our woods, even though the creature has probably been around since long before humans came to ...

• Students' retreat from English

  News on Japan

  Arecent education ministry survey of third-year middle school students nationwide found most students have an ambivalent and contradictory attitude toward English. Of the 3,225 students surveyed, ...

• Sales tax may be raised higher than 10% due to welfare reforms: Noda

  News on Japan

  Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Saturday said the sales tax could be raised higher than the 10 percent rate currently proposed, due to the radical overhaul of the welfare system he is ...

• Immigration cuts lengthy detention for foreigners

  News on Japan

  The number of foreign nationals detained by immigration officials for one year or more has dropped significantly since a more flexible approach was adopted in response to harsh criticism of ...

• American's death in Osaka probed

  News on Japan

  OSAKA — An American resident in Osaka died Saturday after a passer-by found him lying unconscious on a street in the busy Minami area in Chuo Ward earlier in the day, police ...

• Editorial: Japan should take steps toward full-scale restoration of disaster-hit areas

  Mainichi Daily

  The Watari district of Fukushima city is seen in northeast Japan, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/ Greg Baker) Japan should take steps toward full-scale restoration of regions devastated by the ...

• Fukumusume women and others scatter beans at Miyagiken Gokoku-jinja shrine in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 3.

  The Asahi Shimbun

  Women admire the soft light released from traditional "toro," or garden lanterns, in Kasugataisha shrine in Nara on Feb. 3. The lanterns were lit in an event called, ...

• Difficulties exist in restraining TEPCO's rate hike

  The Asahi Shimbun

  The industry ministry has proposed new guidelines that will push electric power companies to cut personnel and advertising expenses before approval is given to increase rates. But there are limits ...

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