High school sports editor and general assignment sports reporter for the Tucson Citizen. E-mail him at ggrammer@tucsoncitizen.com Santa Rita football coach Jeff Scurran will, for the second season, lead a team of high school seniors to Japan for an ...
9 Jan 2009
Tokyo, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa assured Friday that the world´s second strongest economy is worsening because of the global crisis, provoking a fall of exports, production and consuming in Japan. Nakagawa ...
9 Jan 2009
The trade ministry plans talks over the coming months with buyout firms and state funds from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait to outline proposed changes to its tax regime, said a senior ministry official working on the matter ...
9 Jan 2009
Japan will dispatch two or three officials to one of NATO‘s provincial reconstruction teams led by Lithuania in the central Afghan district of Chaghcharan, the ministry said in a statement. "It is important for Japan to perform a due role as a ...
9 Jan 2009
YOKOHAMA, Japan—The Yokohama BayStars of Japan's Central League have signed former major leaguer Dan Johnson to a one-year contract worth $1.2 million. The 29-year-old made his major league debut with the Oakland Athletics in 2005, then was claimed ...
9 Jan 2009
NARA, Japan (AP)--Masayuki Miura's restaurant is radically out of step with modern Japanese tastes. No Australian beef hamburgers, no mountains of fried Brazilian chicken, no imported steaks. Not a Chinese cabbage in sight. Instead, Miura and his ...
9 Jan 2009
One out of every four companies in Japan has cut jobs or plans to do so due to the economic downturn, according to a survey released Thursday by Teikoku Databank credit research agency. Of the 10,731 firms that responded to the survey, 2,890, or 26.9 percent, said they have already cut their workforce or are considering job reductions in the foreseeable future. Read the full story ...
9 Jan 2009
EXETER, England — Steve Perryman is as London as you can get — born in London, grew up in London, played soccer in London (Tottenham Hotspur). But now, he lives in Exeter in the southwest of England and dreams of Japan. "I want to go back because of the respect of the fans, the media and especially the players," he said. Read the full story
9 Jan 2009
Japan added left-handed pitcher Minoru Iwata to its 34-man provisional squad for the World Baseball Classic.
9 Jan 2009
YOKOHAMA, Japan - Former major leaguer Dan Johnson has signed a one-year, US$1.2 million contract with the Yokohama BayStars of Japan's Central League.
9 Jan 2009
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) -- The Yokohama BayStars of Japan's Central League have signed former major leaguer Dan Johnson to a one-year contract worth $1.2 million.
9 Jan 2009
The Yokohama BayStars of Japan's Central League have signed former major leaguer Dan Johnson to a one-year contract worth $1.2 million. The 29-year-old made his major league debut with the Oakland Athletics in 2005, then was claimed on waivers by the Tampa...
9 Jan 2009
Japanese vinyl fans don't have a reason to complain in the last few months. Following powerhouses Sony and Denon, it's now Tokyo-based Exemode's ...
9 Jan 2009
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9 Jan 2009
I apologize for just the link, but this note on Japan is worth a look on production and deflation figures. Posted by rdan at 5:00 AM. |. Comments | Trackback. Subscribe to:. Contributors:. Posts are contributed by cactus, divorced one ...
9 Jan 2009
Japanese shares edged down Friday in lackluster trade as investors turned cautious ahead of US jobs data that’s likely to…
9 Jan 2009
The world recession has hit Japan just as it has hit other parts of the world, and many are worried about their future. In an entry that attracted a great deal of sympathy from readers, blogger koheko reflects on the impact of the ...
9 Jan 2009
Unsurprisingly, Japan has the densest robot population, with 295 industrial automatons per every 10000 workers. Perhaps a little more eyebrow-raising is Singapore's place on the list, which beat out South Korea by five robots per 10K ...
8 Jan 2009