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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:01 am Post subject:
Japan has been for the first time surpassed by China in the Fortune Global 500 list. China ranked second with 73 companies, followed by Japan with 68 firms.
The list is still dominated by the United States with 132 companies but the US is on the decline. �gAlthough the US still hosts the lion�fs share of Global 500 corporations, no country has lost more companies during the last decade. There are 132 US-headquartered businesses on this year�fs list, down from 197 a decade ago,�h Fortune said.
The number of Chinese companies rose by 12 since the last version of the famous list, while the number of European firms decreased to 161 from 172.
The top 10 is dominated by eight companies from the energy field, from which three are Chinese: Sinopec Group, China National Petroleum and State Grid.
�gDespite financial turmoil in Europe and disasters in Japan, the world�fs largest corporations had record profits and revenues in 2011,�h the authors of the list said. �gTotal profits rose seven per cent, to $US1.6 trillion, roughly equal to the gross domestic product of India.�h
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:44 pm Post subject:
The famous penguin that escaped from a Tokyo sea park and spent nearly three months at large before being recaptured will not be known only by his registration number. He finally got a name of its own.
The announcement was made
Previously called Humboldt penguin No. 337, the bird would be named from now on Sazanami, which in Japanese means �gsmall waves�h.
�gThe penguin came back to the aquarium just as waves ebb and flow, which was another reason for the name,�h the sea life park said in a statement. Sazanami sounds similar to the way �g337�� is pronounced in
The name was picked after a competition in which visitors were asked to make suggestions. About 6,400 suggestion letters were received.
The one-year-old penguin, which was confirmed to be a male, escaped from an enclosure where it lived with 134 other penguins of the same kind. It apparently escalated a sheer rock twice its size.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:33 pm Post subject:
South Korea abandoned a plan to pursuit whaling for �gscientific reasons�h, prompting international appreciation and additional pressure on Japan to quit its similar program.
South Korea scrapped a plan that had been announced two weeks ago at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission. According to the proposal, the hunting was necessary �gfor the proper assessment of whale stocks�h in a region nearby the Korean coast.
The Korean press quoted an official saying that �gthe fisheries ministry was criticised for unilaterally announcing the resumption of whaling without discussing the matter with other ministries or the Prime Minister�fs Office.�h
As a result, the plan was withdrawn, prompting greetings from officials of the Australian government. The Australian Environment Minister, Tony Burke, said Japan should observe that South Korea�fs decision �gis simply greeted with international appreciation and respect.�h
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 4:31 am Post subject:
Glad they withdrew! I was whale watching in Australia 2 years ago, and it made me realize they are beautiful intelligent beings! Hope Japan follows suit.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:24 am Post subject:
Kobe beef, a prestigious meat that used to be sold exclusively in Japan, is available in Hong Kong after its international debut in Macau earlier this year, the Japanese government and the beef's exporter said Wednesday.
The beef, famous for its evenly distributed fatty tissue from cows bred with selected feed along with music and muscle massage sessions, was first exported to Macau in January.
"The Japanese export market continues to improve on the back of the strong and steady recovery from the earthquake (last year)," Tetsuya Ishii, deputy consul general of Japan in Hong Kong, said in announcing the launch of Kobe beef here.
Hiroshi Onomura, director general of the Japan External Trade Organization, said Hong Kong's stricter requirement for beef imports was the reason for the delay.
"The Hong Kong government only accepts import of Kobe beef from one butcher, in Kyushu," Onomura said. "The cows have to be shipped from Kobe to Kyushu for butchering, before exporting to Hong Kong."
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:13 pm Post subject:
Japanese man finds woman living in his closet
A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police have said.
The 57-year-old man living alone - or so he thought - in the western city of Fukuoka installed a security camera and called the police when he saw images of someone walking around his home while he was out.
"We searched the house in the man's presence. We found the woman in the closet," said a local police spokesman.
The woman, named as 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, was found in a flat storage space only just big enough for a person to squeeze into lying down.
She had sneaked a mattress and several plastic bottles into the cubby hole, police said, adding that the women had been arrested.
"She told police that she had nowhere to live," the spokesman said.
"She seems to have lived there for about a year, but not all the time."
It is unclear how she managed to enter the home undetected. Police suspect she might have been closet-hopping, moving from house to house.
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:56 am Post subject:
xploring wrote:
Japanese man finds woman living in his closet
A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police have said.
The 57-year-old man living alone - or so he thought - in the western city of Fukuoka installed a security camera and called the police when he saw images of someone walking around his home while he was out.
"We searched the house in the man's presence. We found the woman in the closet," said a local police spokesman.
The woman, named as 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, was found in a flat storage space only just big enough for a person to squeeze into lying down.
She had sneaked a mattress and several plastic bottles into the cubby hole, police said, adding that the women had been arrested.
"She told police that she had nowhere to live," the spokesman said.
"She seems to have lived there for about a year, but not all the time."
It is unclear how she managed to enter the home undetected. Police suspect she might have been closet-hopping, moving from house to house.
- AFP
I need to find a hook up like that. That's even better than Section 8 housing here in the States.
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:02 pm Post subject:
A Japanese assistant judge of the Osaka District Court was arrested by the police after videotaping a woman�fs skirt on a train in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture using the digital camera on his mobile phone.
Toshiki Hanai, 27 years old, placed his phone under the skirt of a women in her 30s, on Wednesday morning.
Hanai had previously recorded videos of underwear of other several women, the police found. He admitted to the charge of violating local legislation forbidding acts of nuisance.
�gI wanted to know what kind of underwear she was wearing,�h he told the police, according to Kyodo.
The incident took place on a Keihan railway, near Neyagawashi Station.
the tokyo times.
p.s. i used to live in neyagawa! _________________
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:50 pm Post subject:
I guess this guy was too cheap to go to Book-Off.
Man steals over 1,100 library books
Japanese police have arrested a 61-year-old man accused of stealing more than 1,100 library books.
Officials say Mitsuka Suizu was initially arrested in July for taking a few books from the public library in Nagato, in western Japan. When police searched his home in the city of Ube, Suizu admitted to taking 1,170 books over a seven-year period, and stashing them at home, where he lived with his wife and two children.
The estimated value of the paperbacks? More than $25,000.
"He loves books," Nagato police spokesman Yosuke Miyoshi told ABC News. "He didn't just want to read them. He wanted them by his side."
Miyoshi said the volumes, taken from 15 local libraries, ranged from encyclopedias to history books and books about insects.
Suizu was fully employed until his arrest in July, and visited various libraries during his work breaks.
"None of [the libraries] had security gates, so he was able to get by relatively unnoticed," Miyoshi said.
Librarians have identified 896 of those books as their own so far. Miyoshi says police are still trying to track down where the remaining 274 books came from.
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