Tokyo Detention Center Execution Chamber Revealed to Public

The Execution Chamber at the Tokyo Detention Center in the Katsushika Ward Has Been Shown to the Media for the First Time The media was allowed access to the execution chamber for the first time on August 27 and the visit was documented in The Mainichi Daily News. This...

Greenpeace Activists Junichi and Toru: Whale Meat Scandal

Greenpeace activists Junichi and Toru, also known as the Tokyo Two, are on trial for the embezzlement of whale meat valued at about $500.  This is a criminal trial which has involved raids on the Greenpeace...

Sea Shepherd Captain Peter Bethune Now Prisoner in Japan

Sea Shepherd Captain Peter Bethune is now a prisoner in Japan.  He was transported to Japan on the Shonan Maru 2 after a daring move in which he boarded the whaling ship last February to make a citizen's...

Toyota Drivers Complain Cars Still Speed Up Despite Pedal Fix

U.S. Government Receives Over 60 Complaints About Toyota Cars Still Speeding Up Over 60 complaints have been filed to the U.S. government from Toyota drivers who say they are still experiencing their cars speeding up even after the accelerator pedal fix offered by Toyota. ...

Toyota Incentives March 2010: New Toyota Rebates

Toyota is offering aggressive incentives for buyers staring March 2010. The New Toyota rebates and incentives include zero percent financing and free maintenance for two years on some makes and models of Toyota...

"Detergent Suicides" Growing Trend - Deadly to Rescuers

A new wave of suicide, that has the potential to take out any attempted rescuers has made it's way to Wake County, North Carolina.  Now Police and firefighters  are trying to get the word out....

Tokyo Two J. Sato, T. Suzuki to Stand Trial Feb. 15

The two Greenpeace activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, also known as the Tokyo Two, that exposed corruption in the Japanese whaling industry are to go on trial charged with theft and trespass.  According...

Permanent residence may be granted the right to vote in Japan.

By, Uwe Paschen. To give or not to give permanent residence the right to vote in Japan, this is the question many ask them self these days.  Japan may give permanent residence the right to vote at the local...

Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda Apologizes; No Prius Recall Yet

Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda held a press conference during which he apologized for the massive Toyota recall. Akio Toyoda said, "Please believe me: we always put customers first". However, the Toyota CEO did not...

Lexus Recall? Toyota Lexus Brake Problem

Toyota is investigating its Lexus cars to see if they have the same brake problems as the Toyota Prius vehicles. The Lexus 250h, the Lexus hybrid car, shares the same brake system as the Toyota Prius. "Toyota...

Japan Airlines Bankruptcy: 'Business as Usual' for Oneworld

Japan Airlines has filed for bankruptcy. Japan Airlines (JAL) will continue to fly as it uses 900 billion yen ($9.9 billion) of public funds to stay afloat. Oneworld, the codeshare conglomerate which includes JAL,...

Groping on Tokyo Trains: Growing Groper Problem & Amazing Stats

Japanese railway gropers or "chikan" are still an increasing problem despite police attempts to decrease the occurrences of groping.  In the past decade reports of men groping women on busy Japanese trains have...

Travels to Asia with Obama

Jon Favreau Checks in from Tokyo (Video) Part of my YouTube subscription,  "Travels with the President" (if upload is still malfunctioning:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaUfKa9VuI8)

Mr. Obama to meet with Mr. Hatoyama in Tokyo today.

By, Uwe Paschen. In Japan not only the weather seems cooler this days, on its political front it seems even chilling, at least as far as relation with the U.S. are concerned.  This Thursday the 12s of November...

Could Japan become a beacon for the World to follow?

By, Uwe Paschen. Is Japan’s change to be a beacon for a World to follow or merely an Isolated move by one bold Nation defying a super power? Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Party (DPJ) won a historic...

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