Hiroshima marks nuclear anniversary
06 Aug 2009: Hiroshima has marked the 64th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city by backing calls by American President Barack Obama for a nuclear-free world. Tadatoshi Akiba, Hiroshima's mayor, welcomed the commitment at Thursday's ceremony toGoogle Earth maps out discrimination against burakumin caste in Japan
22 May 2009: A handful of innocent-looking antique maps, one offensive word and tens of thousands of offended “untouchables” have plunged Google into an unspoken class war that has raged in Japan for centuries. Despite its ambition to be the cartographer of theIndiana Jones trivialises nuclear threat, says Japan's foreign minister
29 Apr 2009: JAPAN'S foreign minister has taken a swipe at the latest sequel of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones blockbuster series for trivialising the devastation of a nuclear bomb blast. "There was a scene in a hit movie last year in which the famous hero, facing aJapanese man wins recognition for surviving two atom bombs
24 Mar 2009: A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person to be certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of the second world war, officials said today. Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified "hibakusha," or radiation survivor, ofGoverning party faces political extinction
20 Feb 2009: TOKYO: Mounting troubles threaten the brief administration of Japan's unpopular prime minister, Taro Aso. The bigger question is whether time could also be running out for his Liberal Democratic Party and its half-century monopoly on political power inJapan slump fastest in decades
16 Feb 2009: Japan's economy minister has said that the country is facing its worst crisis since World War II after data for the last quarter of 2008 showed the economy shrank by 3.3 per cent. The data released on Monday showed the fastest contraction rate since theJapan's GDP Shrinks 12.7%, Most Since 1974 Oil Shock
16 Feb 2009: Japan's economy shrank at an annual 12.7 percent pace last quarter, the most since the 1974 oil shock, amid an unprecedented collapse in exports and production. Gross domestic product fell for a third straight quarter in the three months ended Dec. 31,Nuclear warships in Japan touch a nerve
15 Feb 2009: YOKOSUKA, Japan - As Masahiko Goto sees it, the USS George Washington is not a ship. It’s a floating nuclear disaster waiting to happen near one of the world’s biggest cities. The recent deployment of the huge aircraft carrier to a port just south ofTactics for hard times as Japanese turn to job-sharing
17 Jan 2009: In the deep south of Japan sits the tiny island of Himeshima. Farmers cultivate delicious prawns, the rare chestnut tiger butterfly flitters around the beach and 2,400 islanders wallow in total job security. It has been so on Himeshima for 40 years andNo sex, thank you ... we're Japanese
30 Mar 2008: Housewife Miyuki Yanagisawa cannot recall the last time she had sex with her husband. She is certain, though, that their physical estrangement can be measured in years, not months. While she shares a room with the couple's two young daughters, herslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
