, contradicting longstanding denials by the Japanese leader.
The admission came after the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, under prodding from an opposition lawmaker, released documents showing that 300 Australian, British and Dutch prisoners of war worked at a mine owned by Aso Mining during the last four months of the war.
At a parliamentary session on Thursday, Foreign Ministry and health officials acknowledged the validity of the documents, Read the rest of this entry »
TAKAMATSU, JAPAN — The Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital in Takamatsu is believed to have mistakenly implanted a woman with the in vitro-fertilized ovum of another patient in September, the prefectural government has announced.
The Takamatsu woman, in her 20s, who received the egg was receiving fertility treatments at the hospital and was expecting to be implanted with her own fertilized egg.
She became pregnant as a result of the procedure Read the rest of this entry »
A 21-year old Japanese woman is shopping desperately for bananas in her local supermarket but, sadly, bananas are hard to find these days in Japan.
This is because Japan is the origination spot for the new Morning Banana Diet, which is sweeping Japanese women by storm. The young woman in the supermarket, who is urgently seeking out any bananas that may remain on the shelves, weighs only 100 pounds. So why does she need to diet at all? Shouldn’t Read the rest of this entry »
“If I dissolved the lower house immediately, would that be an effective economic policy?”
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso last week. “Politics would halt for two months.”
Japan’s people, given their sour mood of late, would actually like to see the end of politics, or at least politics as they have known it. Aso’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled the country for all but 11 months since 1955, is on the verge of losing control of the lower Read the rest of this entry »
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A 21-year old Japanese woman is shopping desperately for bananas in her local supermarket but, sadly, bananas are hard to find these days in Japan.
This is because Japan is the origination spot for the new Morning Banana Diet, which is sweeping Japanese women by storm. The young woman in the supermarket, who is urgently seeking out any bananas that may remain on the shelves, weighs only 100 pounds. So why does she need to diet at all? Shouldn’t Read the rest of this entry »
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Novartis AG said Wednesday it has received approval in Japan to market four drugs to treat asthma, cancer, hypertension and blindness.
The Swiss pharmaceuticals company said the approvals covered omalizumab, known as Xolair, for treating severe bronchial asthma in adult patients; nilotinib, or Tasigna, to treat certain forms of Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, a rare form of cancer; a new Read the rest of this entry »
, contradicting longstanding denials by the Japanese leader.
The admission came after the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, under prodding from an opposition lawmaker, released documents showing that 300 Australian, British and Dutch prisoners of war worked at a mine owned by Aso Mining during the last four months of the war.
At a parliamentary session on Thursday, Foreign Ministry and health officials acknowledged the validity of the documents, Read the rest of this entry »
December 12, 2008 11:57 p.m. EST
Tokyo, Japan (AHN) – Japanese tankers will continue to refuel and provide water to U.S. Navy ships patrolling the Indian Ocean for another year after the country’s parliament enacted Friday a controversial anti-terrorism law.
The Diet’s lower house, controlled by conservative Prime Minister Taro Aso’s Liberal Democratic Party, overrode an earlier junking of the refueling bill by the opposition-dominated upper Read the rest of this entry »
TOKYO, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) — Japan’s current extraordinary Diet session will be extended for 25 days to Dec. 25 under the present plan, a senior lawmaker of the New Komeito party indicated Wednesday.
According to Japanese Constitution, the more powerful House of Representatives can hold a revote to pass a bill if the upper house, which is controlled by opposition parties, rejects it or holds no vote within 60 days of receiving the bill.
On the financial Read the rest of this entry »