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Electric signals passed through insulator in method that could save 80 percent energy

In a world first, a team of Japanese researchers has succeeded in transmitting electric signals through insulators using magnetism -- a technology which could spell energy savings of 80 percent in integrated circuit chips.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM

Flower grower opens business bringing orchids back from the dead

KOFU -- An orchid grower here will launch Japan's first "flower resurrection" service in April, which will bring customers' dead orchids back into bloom.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 9:58 AM

Three teens busted for lifting items from set of pop group AKB48 TV drama

Three teenagers have been arrested for stealing a signboard and other equipments from the set of a TV drama featuring popular all-girl J-pop group AKB48, police said on Thursday.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 9:34 AM

Attorney beats powerful interests, tradition to become bar ass. federation president

Lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya, 63, has been elected the next president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA).

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 9:24 AM

8th annual U.N. symposium commemorating Int'l Women's Day calls for greater progress

An entire century after International Women's Day was established, 35 years after it gained official United Nations sponsorship, and 33 years after the U.N.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 8:21 AM

Japanese researchers create intestine from stem cells

In an apparent world first, Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing intestine from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which can develop into various types of cells in the body.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 7:56 AM

Excluding North Korean schools from new free tuition structure irrational

A battle over whether to exclude North Korean schools in Japan from the high school tuition-free measures currently being debated in the Diet has erupted within the government.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 7:42 AM

Tokyo ward mayor to take paternity leave in Japan first

A Tokyo ward mayor plans to take two weeks' paternal leave following the birth of his first child -- a rare move in a country where only 1.23 percent of fathers take the legally guaranteed time off.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 7:38 AM

MDN to launch subscriptions on Sony Reader

The Mainichi Newspapers Co.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 6:50 AM

9 rare crested ibises killed in animal attack at breeding center

The Ministry of the Environment has announced nine Japanese crested ibises were killed at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Niigata Prefecture's Sado Island after being attacked by at least one marten.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 6:35 AM

Futenma relocation to inland Camp Schwab site would take 10 years, gov't predicts

A plan to relocate the U.S.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 6:30 AM

Senior LDP lawmakers call for heads of party leadership

Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano warned that the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will suffer a setback in this summer's House of Councillors election unless the party replaces its leadership.

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 6:30 AM

Mar. 11, 2010 - Haiku in English

orphanage windowplastic flowers bloomin the snow--Victor Gendrano (Lakewood, CA, USA)

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 2:00 AM

1,000-year old tree in front of Kamakura shrine knocked down by strong winds

KAMAKURA, Kangagawa -- A 1,000-year-old giant ginkgo tree in front of the main hall of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine here has been knocked down, apparently by strong winds.

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 10:39 AM

Ex-civil servant Maiko Itai crowned Miss Universe Japan

A 25-year-old former civil servant was crowned with this year's Miss Universe Japan on Tuesday.

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 10:30 AM

65 years after the Great Tokyo Air Raid, the bereaved still remember

On March 10, 65 years after the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945, an association of families left bereaved by the attack also marked their 10-year anniversary since the group's founding.

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM

Mainichi reporter vindicated as Foreign Ministry admits secret Okinawa payments to U.S.

Japan secretly agreed to give the United States some $4 million to pay for the restoration of U.S.

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM

Successive cabinets knew of secret Japan-U.S. nuclear pact, secret papers reveal

Successive Japanese Cabinets up to at least 1989 had full knowledge of the secret 1960 agreement between Japan and the United States allowing nuclear-armed U.S.

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 9:14 AM

New book tells story of Korean victims of Tokyo air raids for first time

As Wednesday marks the 65th anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raids, which claimed the lives of some 100,000 civilians, the first book about the Korean victims of the bombing has been published.

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 8:33 AM

Sony announces launch of Bravia 3D TV set for June

Sony announced that a range of 3D models will be added to its Bravia line of LCD TVs on June 10.

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 7:58 AM