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London, July 4 : The Walkman used to be the perfect companion for whole generation of music lovers, and now the clunky portable cassette player by Sony has been named the best musical invention of the last 50 years, by a leading magazine.

. Auriga Leader has 328 solar panels to provide 40 kilowatts, about 10% of the ship's power while sitting idling in dock. This amount of energy is the equivalent to the power used by ten average home...

SEOUL, July 5 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING WITH QUOTES FROM U.S. OFFICIAL) North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles, all believed to be short- or intermediate-range types, toward the Sea of Ja...

Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone suggesting that despite the long lines that greeted the iPhone 3G last summer, the device was a big flop in Japan.

Tokyo, July 4: External Affairs Minister S. M Krishna, who is on a four-day visit to Japan, on Saturday inaugurated the new chancery building of the Indian Embassy in Tokyo.

A group of Japanese citizens are putting together their effort to build a memorial monument for a Korean poet, who was well-known for his "resistance poems" against the forceful Japanese occupation of...

The Tokyo-based group attributed the steep decline to consumers' tendency to live more economically in the recession, and a recent revision to the Moneylending Control Act making it more difficult for...

SINGAPORE, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Chikahira Naoko's last second free throws helped Japan defeat China 33-32 to win the title of the girl 's 3-on-3 basketball at the 2009 Asian Youth Games here on Saturday...

TOKYO, July 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: ADDING NIGHT GAMES) Linescores of Saturday's games in Japanese baseball: Central League At Yokohama Stadium Hiroshima 021 021 010 - 7 11 0 Yokohama 000 045 40x ...

TOKYO, July 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Tokyo Tower was lit up in five colors Saturday night to demonstrate the Japanese capital's hopes to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. It was colored in strips from ...

TOKYO, July 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: ADDING BOTTOM 2 GRAFS WITH MORE REACTIONS) The Japanese government lodged a protest with North Korea through diplomatic channels in Beijing over its launching o...

YOKOHAMA, July 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Colombian Navy's sail-training ship Gloria arrived at Yokohama port Saturday on the occasion of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the port's opening....

OSAKA, July 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A large-scale antibody test will be conducted on the new H1N1 influenza, ahead of an anticipated second wave of the new flu later this year, at an Osaka Prefecture sc...

TOKYO, July 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japan's men slumped to a 25-23, 23-25, 31-29, 28-26 defeat in the first game of a two-match series against Bulgaria in the World League on Saturday. Japan shored up i...

TOKYO: Major countries should support the dollar as the key international currency, although emerging nations may discuss a new global reserve currency on the sidelines of the G8 summit next week, a J...

Japan's Nashimoto Masaki claimed the gold medal in the boys' 100m finals, while Lee Sunae from South Korea won the girls' 100m finals at the first Asian Youth Games on Friday. In the boys' 100m finals...

ROME — A restaurant in Rome which presented a Japanese tourist with a bill for 695 euros (nearly 100,000 yen) after a meal with his fiancee has been closed down by the authorities, Il Messagger...

Tokyo, July 3 : India and Japan on Friday agreed to cooperate on pressing global issues of climate change, disarmament and non-proliferation while moving ahead in negotiations to stitch a comprehensiv...

Tokyo, July 3 : India and Japan on Friday agreed to take steps to fast track work on the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) and the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project.

Tokyo, Jul 03 : India and Japan today said they were making progress on a 'high quality and mutually beneficial' Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and stressed the need to conclude i...

TOKYO -- Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, an official said Frida...

Japanese Emperor Akihito (left) and Empress Michiko (centre right) are escorted by Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon (centre left) and Minister of International Trade Bev Oda (right) as they...

A station attendant measures her smile level with "Smile Scan." (Photo courtesy of Keihin Electric Express Railway Co.) Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. has introduced a "Smile Scan" system to eval...

Amano won the required two-third majority of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) governing board members expressing a preference, with 23 votes and one abstention in the 35-nation meeting, defea...

TOKYO — Six of Japan’s major automakers will resume plant operations on weekends to manufacture hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars amid nascent signs of an improvement in car demand th...