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ALOS. Photo courtesy of global.jaxa.jp New Japan satellite to survey disasters, rain forests Japan is scheduled to launch a new mapping satellite on Saturday that will be used to survey damage from natural disasters and changes affecting rain forests.
21 May 2014
Photo courtesy of listofimages.com Japan court orders military night flights at base suspended A court Wednesday ordered Japan's military to suspend night flights from one base in the first such ruling over noise caused by fighter planes.
21 May 2014
©Reuters/Toru Hanai Fukushima water decontamination system down The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday it had again suspended a trouble-plagued system used to clean radiation-tainted water.
21 May 2014
Japan's Hitachi unveils joking robot Japanese scientists unveiled a robot with a sense of humour Tuesday, and claimed it was capable of knowing when its jokes had fallen flat.
20 May 2014
Ex-Beatle McCartney cancels Japan tour over illness Former Beatle Paul McCartney has cancelled his Japan tour due to illness, organisers said Tuesday, days after apologising to fans for missing a pair of weekend concerts.
20 May 2014
Photo courtesy of thebridge.jp Yahoo Japan cancels $3.2 bn plan to buy eAccess Internet giant Yahoo Japan said Monday it had cancelled plans to buy domestic telecom company eAccess from its parent SoftBank Corp. in a deal that was valued at about $3.2 billion.
20 May 2014
©Reuters/Yuya Shino Japan budget carrier cancels flights due to pilot shortage Japanese low cost carrier Vanilla Air said Friday it will cancel scores of flights in June because it does not have enough pilots to fly them.
16 May 2014
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. ©Reuters/Tim Wimborne Massive PNG gas project loads first shipment Australian energy firm Santos said Friday the first exports from its huge US$19 billion gas project in Papua New Guinea will soon depart for Japan, four years after the joint venture was given the go-ahead.
16 May 2014
Photo courtesy of  kirov-v-mire.ru 9 days of Japanese Dolls exhibition in Astana Japanese Dolls exhibition will take place at the First President Museum in Astana starting from May 21st.
14 May 2014
©Reuters/Yuriko Nakao Tokyo to ban sales of incest comic to minors The Tokyo government is to ban sales to children of a manga comic that depicts incestuous relationships, an official said Tuesday, the first time expanded rules on sexual content have been invoked.
14 May 2014
©Reuters/Kyodo Japan bus-jacker 'wanted to see parents' A middle-aged man who allegedly hijacked a bus because he wanted to visit his parents was arrested in Japan, police said Monday, after he let the driver go to the toilet.
12 May 2014
Naomi Kawase. ©Reuters/Eric Gaillard Naomi Kawase: 'masterpiece' worth the Palme D'Or Naomi Kawase, the first Japanese director to be a member of the Cannes jury, returns to competition this year with a film she has dubbed her "masterpiece".
11 May 2014
Former Beatle Paul McCartney. ©Reuters/Mario Anzuoni McCartney returns to Tokyo venue for first time since 1966 Paul McCartney is to play Tokyo's Nippon Budokan Hall this month, marking his first return to the venue since appearing there with The Beatles in 1966.
10 May 2014
Legendary sumo wrestler to develop sumo in Almaty Asashoryu Akinori, winner of 25 Emperor Cups, is planning to develop sumo wrestling in Almaty.
09 May 2014
Big quake rattles Tokyo, 17 injured A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook buildings in Tokyo early Monday, lightly injuring 17 people, but officials stressed there was no risk of a tsunami.
05 May 2014
©Reuters/Kacper Pempel France suspends pig imports from North America, Japan France has suspended imports of live pigs from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan to try to prevent the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus entering the country, the French agriculture ministry announced.
03 May 2014
Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. ©Reuters/Yuya Shino Japan to deny visas to 23 Russians over Ukraine crisis Japan said Tuesday it would deny visas to 23 Russian nationals as part of its additional sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
29 April 2014
Japan kicks off first whale hunt since UN court ruling A Japanese whaling fleet is set to leave port Saturday in the first hunt since the UN's top court last month ordered Tokyo to stop killing whales in the Antarctic.
26 April 2014
Obama lands in Seoul as N. Korea nuclear test fears grow Barack Obama arrived in Seoul Friday to growing signs North Korea was defiantly readying another nuclear test, and with South Koreans in a state of national mourning over the sinking of a ferry full of schoolchildren.
25 April 2014
The Spirit of Tengri The Spirit of Tengri: taste of world ethnic music in Almaty 2nd The Spirit of Tengri festival will take place in Almaty on June 7th.
24 April 2014
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