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Japan says no word from China on dumpling poisoning
Japan’s Foreign Ministry denied on Saturday media reports that Beijing had for the first time acknowledged that pesticide-laced dumplings — at the heart of a bilateral row — had probably been contaminated in China.
Japanese media, including NHK public television, said China had told [...]
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Remember your loved one – as a diamond
Diamonds really are forever. Algordanza, a small company based in the mountainous southeast of Switzerland, uses the ashes of dead people to make diamonds as a permanent memento for their nearest and dearest.
And with prices starting at less than 5,000 euros ($7,488), the jewels are not solely the [...]
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Country ordered to pay damages for sailor’s suicide
The Japanese government will have to pay damages to the parents of a sailor who hanged himself after being repeatedly insulted by his superior, in the first such court ruling involving a civil servant, media said.
The Fukuoka High Court in southern Japan ordered 3.5 million yen ($32,000) be paid [...]
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Elderly Japan woman slashes passers-by
A 79-year-old woman slashed two women with a fruit knife near a crowded Tokyo railway station because she wanted police help after running away from a shelter for homeless people, police said on Saturday.
The victims, in their 20s, were only slightly injured in the attack on Friday night in a crowded [...]
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Monkey eludes dragnet at Tokyo train station
Morning train commuters in Tokyo were joined on their way to work by an unusual companion Wednesday: a wild monkey. A security guard spotted the monkey near ticket gates in Shibuya Station, said Norihiru Masui, a spokesman for train operator Tokyu Corp.
The monkey climbed to a perch high atop a departure [...]
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Japan 61-yr-old surrogate mum gives birth
A 61-year-old Japanese woman has given birth to a surrogate child, an obstetrician in central Japan said on Wednesday. She is believed to be the oldest surrogate mother yet recorded in Japan.
The woman became pregnant with an embryo created from the egg of her daughter, who has no uterus, and sperm [...]
Filed in: Health & Wellness
Employee Worked To Death
A Toyota Motor Corp employee died of overwork after logging more than 106 hours of overtime in a month, a judge ruled Friday, reversing a ministry’s earlier decision not to pay compensation to his widow.
The Toyota Labor Standards Inspection office, a local branch of Japan’s labor ministry, [...]
Filed in: Business & Economy
Japan Leech invasion makes residents see red
Long confined to the mountains, Japanese leeches are invading residential areas, causing swelling, itching and general discomfort with their blood-thirsty ways.
Yamabiru, or land leeches, have become a problem in 29 of Japan’s 47 prefectures, according to the Institute for Environmental Culture, [...]
Filed in: Health & Wellness
Japan firm apologizes after toilets smoke, catch fire
Twenty-six smoking toilets, and three more on fire, put a Japanese toilet maker in the hot seat on Monday.
Toto Ltd., known for its high-tech toilets with bidets that have blow-drying, air purification and seat-warming functions, apologized to consumers and offered free checks and repairs after some [...]
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Top furrier says fakes are bad for your skin
Chie Imai, furrier to Japan’s royal family, wants more young women to wear the real thing, for the sake of their skin.
“Fake fur is bad for your health,” Imai told Reuters after showing vividly colored coats made of mink, lynx and other furs in Tokyo this week for the 30th anniversary [...]
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Four-time Tokyo poll loser eyes 16 more runs
An eccentric 78-year-old inventor who was thwarted in his fourth attempt to become governor of Tokyo was undaunted, saying he plans to run 16 more times and will win by outliving his opponents, local media said on Monday.
“I’m going to live to 144, so I’m still only middle-aged. I can [...]
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Porn swap sparks defense leak furore
Posted by Nick on April 6, 2007 · 2 Comments
Three Japanese naval officers who swapped pornography on their computers triggered a scandal over a possible leak of sensitive data linked to Japan’s missile defense system, a newspaper said Thursday.
Police launched a probe last week after a navy officer married to a Chinese woman was found to [...]
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Japan man shoots at condo for blocking out sunlight
A Japanese man angry that a new apartment building put his house in the shade was arrested after shooting about a dozen bullets at it with a competition rifle.
Police said the man apparently fired at the 11-storey building, which was completed last October, from a window on the third floor of his house, [...]
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Name card promises dazzling impression
If you want to shine in a first meeting, a Japanese firm may have the answer — a name card made of gold.
Mitsubishi Materials is selling gold business cards of 99.99 percent purity. Each card costs 10,000 yen (45 pounds).
“There is very little difference between this and the usual business [...]
Filed in: Business & Economy
Japan metal thieves steal kids’ slides, toilet roof
Children’s slides, incense holders from cemeteries and even the roof of a public toilet have disappeared in a spate of metal robberies in Japan prompted by surging steel and copper prices.
Last year, there were about 5,700 such robberies in Japan causing damages worth some 2 billion yen (9 million [...]
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