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Museum honors great inventions (Asahi) Optics to support unbridled bandwidth demand (CIOL) USA: The mood at the 34th ECOC, notwithstanding the worsening crisis of the US financial markets, was calm and quiet, as captured succinctly by Rod Alferness, chief scientist, Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, in his plenary address: "Optimism is appropriate, but caution is judicious." IPhone Gets First Major Corporate Customer in Japan - PC World IPhone Gets First Major Corporate Customer in Japan PC World - 6 hours ago Unlike other nations the use of smartphones in the Japan market is still low. A proprietary second-generation cellular technology left companies like ... Tectonic fragment linked to Tokyo's quake peril: scientists (AFP) Oishiku Henkan (yummy converter) makes your food image yummier Oishiku Henkan (lit. Yummy Converter) is a web service which adjust automatically a color balance of an uploaded JPEG image of food to make the food image look yummier. It’s a very simple service, but the result is quite impressive. I tried with a picture of my own, and it has improved very much. Note: uploaded images [...] Tomorrow?s Rainbow: 86-year old Japanese nun writes cell phone novel Novels and poetry written, bought and read on cell phones are nothing unusual in mobile phone-crazy Japan. Now it came to light that Jakucho Setouchi, a 86-year old Buddhist nun has written a long-running cell phone novel series (keitai shousetsu in Japanese) without disclosing her real name for several months. Setouchi is an accomplished writer and currently [...] Joggers live longer--even if they're overweight (Yomiuri) New Shinkansen nearing test runs (Asahi) Pterosaurs 'flightless' theory (Press Association) Why Japanese men have fewer heart attacks (UPI)

(AFP/File) - An elderly Chinese woman watches over her grandchild at a hospital in Wuhan, central China. Chinese authorities have promised not to export dairy products until their safety is guaranteed as a scare spreads over tainted Chinese milk, a Japanese official has said.(AFP/File)

DAILY REPORTS

Oct 06 Museum honors great inventions (Asahi) Oct 06 Tectonic fragment linked to Tokyo's quake peril: scientists (AFP) Oct 05 Joggers live longer--even if they're overweight (Yomiuri) Oct 04 New Shinkansen nearing test runs (Asahi) Oct 03 Pterosaurs 'flightless' theory (Press Association) Oct 03 Why Japanese men have fewer heart attacks (UPI) Oct 03 Japanese among Ig Nobel winners for study on maze-solving amoeboid (Kyodo) Oct 03 Todai farm grew rice with mercury (Asahi) Oct 02 Japan gets blame for bluefin overfishing (ABC News) Sep 30 Seeds of 1,690 species of plants on verge of extinction will be frozen and preserved (Mainichi) Sep 30 Inpex Plans to Use Bacteria at Depleted Oil Wells to Produce Natural Gas (Bloomberg) Sep 30 Electrically flipped magnets point to better memory (New Scientist) Sep 29 Japan experts identify daytime sleepiness gene (Reuters) Sep 29 Japan, France to jointly develop satellite parts (Yomiuri) Sep 28 Tokyo U. plans competition to accurately detect quakes (Yomiuri) Sep 27 Triumph unveils solar power bra (just-style.com) Sep 27 Unicycling robot to meet micro cars at Japan's Ceatec (New York Times) Sep 26 Japanese babies sleep shortest at 11.6 hours a day, N.Z. longest (Kyodo) Sep 25 Japan unveils wearable airbag for elderly (livenews.com.au) Sep 25 10 artificially bred crested ibises released into wild in Japan (Kyodo) Sep 25 Nishida honored for 'pivotal findings' on chimps (Asahi) Sep 23 Robot development takes a homeward turn (Japan Times) Sep 22 Anteater on the run from aquarium (Asahi) Sep 22 Kawasaki to build Japan's fastest train (gizmag.com) Sep 22 Japan hopes to turn sci-fi into reality with elevator to the stars (Times Online) Sep 22 1st dogs said born from frozen ova (Yomiuri) Sep 20 Japan lifts thalidomide ban for cancer treatment (telegraph.co.uk) Sep 19 Police take legal action against 66 Net posters (Yomiuri) Sep 17 Japanese whale whisperer teaches beluga to 'talk' (Reuters) Sep 17 Spacesuits, isolation capsules unnecessary for influenza patients (Asahi) Sep 15 Ibises to finally return to Sado (Asahi) Sep 15 Japanese-born giant panda has twins (AFP) Sep 15 Scientist Wins Prize for Statin Breakthrough (Washington Post) Sep 13 Japan university gets patent for stem cell breakthrough (TODAYOnline) Sep 13 Japan Is Future Internet Ready (webpronews.com) Sep 11 Utility to sue Hitachi over reactor (Asahi) Sep 08 METI to expand solar power subsidies (Yomiuri) Sep 08 Algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitors (Boston.com) Sep 03 12,750 heatstroke victims taken to hospital in July (Yomiuri) Sep 02 Elephants no Dumbo at sums: Japanese researcher (AFP) Sep 01 Whales shedding blubber, Japan study says (AFP) Sep 01 Japan's hi-tech toilets (telegraph.co.uk) Sep 01 New nerve cells needed for smelling, memory: study (Reuters) Aug 31 Why is Japan lagging in solar-energy field? (Japan Times) Aug 30 Geothermal energy promising / Radiation therapy facility shows potential for meeting energy needs (Yomiuri) Aug 28 Japan celebrates birth of panda (AFP) Aug 25 Storm deaths put pressure on weather agency (Asahi) Aug 25 Ministry to study plan to bury CO2 (Yomiuri) Aug 25 Japanese create stem cells from wisdom teeth (AFP) Aug 22 Study: Magnetic water devices have no effect (Yomiuri)