Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Tohoku Electric, Tepco in nuclear compensation talks

Tohoku Electric begins talks with Tokyo Electric on compensation for dropping electricity sales in Fukushima Prefecture.

H7N9 defense measures prepared

To prepare for an H7N9 bird flu outbreak, governors will be authorized to "strongly advise" that suspected carriers be hospitalized or banned from work, the ...

Israeli military says Syria used chemical weapons

A senior Israeli military official says it is "quite clear" Syria has used chemical agents, which U.S. President Barack Obama has called a "red line" ...

Kyoto team finds faster way to turn iPS cells into muscle fibers

A Japanese research team has found a more efficient way to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells into mature myocytes, or muscle cells, it said ...

Probe finds no ties between Boston suspect, militants

New details emerged Tuesday from U.S. officials and family members about how the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have been swayed by a radical, ...

China quake response goes high-tech

The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China's full range of ...

Reassessing Thatcher’s legacy

Now that her funeral is over, let's begin a dispassionate assessment of why politicians of all parties remain enthralled by the legacy of Margaret Thatcher.

Why people stay scared after tragedies

After a tragedy such as the one last week in Boston, people develop a heightened sense of risk. Often that response is far greater than ...

Fewer babies no cause for panic

Regarding the April 17 editorial, "Japan's depopulation time bomb": So much fuss has been made in the news media about the declining birthrate that it ...

In front and behind closed temple doors

While largely beneath the contemporary-art radar, painting for Japanese temples by the stars of the postwar art world is a relatively common activity, though largely ...

The first lady of Japanese jazz comes home

For Japanese jazz musicians these days, going to the United States to further mastery of the genre is a much-pursued rite of passage. This route ...

A postmortem on how promoters let a Blur gig in Japan slip away

The Tokyo Rocks festival, which had been scheduled for May 11 and 12, was an ambitious attempt to bring big-name overseas artists such as Blur, ...

On the mechanics of anime illustration

The 1970s was an important decade for the development of Japanese pop-cultural icons. Kindergarten children back then would likely have been introduced to the characters ...

Bayern routs Barca in first leg

For once, Barcelona was on the wrong end of the kind of drubbing it so often inflicts on others. And with Bayern Munich in this ...

Reds rally past Guangzhou

Captain Yuki Abe went from zero to hero as Urawa Reds kept alive their chances of progressing to the round of 16 in the Asian ...

Nogami flirts with no-hitter as Lions maul Marines

Ryoma Nogami flirted with a no hitter Wednesday, dominating all night with a slow curveball and a nearly untouchable slider as the Seibu Lions pounded ...

Ardija not prepared to fade from memory after day in sun

Omiya Ardija took center stage last Saturday after setting a new J. League record for consecutive unbeaten games, but the unheralded Saitama side can expect ...

Isles reach playoffs despite loss to ‘Canes

The Carolina Hurricanes got the victory. The New York Islanders still came away with something even more significant. The Islanders clinched an Eastern Conference playoff spot ...