Strong 61 earthquake strikes off Japan coast
Posted by admin on May 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment
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Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million IDs stolen
Posted by admin on May 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOKYO: Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal.
“We don’t know if the file (of 22 million user IDs) was leaked or not, but we can’t deny the possibility given the volume of traffic between our server and external” terminals, the company said in a statement...
Six bodies found after fire on ship in Japan
Posted by admin on May 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOKYO: Six bodies, suspected to be those of Russian crew members, were found aboard a cargo ship that caught fire Thursday while anchored in a Japanese port, a coastguard and news reports said.
Fire took hold of the 497-tonne Cambodian-registered freighter, Taigan, which has been in the port of Wakkanai in northern Japan since Tuesday, said an official at the local coastguard office.
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Dollar slips in Asia after Bank of Japan stays pat
Posted by admin on Apr 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOKYO: The dollar sank against the yen in Asia on Friday after the Bank of Japan held off new easing measures at its first policy meeting since this month’s huge stimulus.
The dollar bought 98.73 yen in afternoon trade, from 99.29 yen in New York late Thursday, while the euro firmed to $1.3042 from $1.3009 but fell to 128.82 yen from 129.22 yen.
Wrapping up its latest meeting, the Bank of Japan said its policy board...
70 earthquake hits northern Japan
Posted by admin on Apr 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOKYO: 7.0 earthquake hits northern Japan, no risk of tsunami: Japanese agency
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NATO head lauds Japan cooperation pledge
Posted by admin on Apr 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOKYO: NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen Monday welcomed an agreement due to be signed with Tokyo pledging Japan’s continued cooperation in the fight against “emerging security challenges”.
Secretary General Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, said he would be meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later in the day to issue a joint declaration on closer NATO-Japan partnership.
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US fully committed to defending Japan Kerry
Posted by admin on Apr 14, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOKYO: Washington is “fully committed” to protecting Japan, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday, days after Pyongyang threatened the Japanese capital would be “consumed in nuclear flames”.
“The United States is fully committed to the defence of Japan,” Kerry told a joint press conference with Fumio Kishida, Japan’s Foreign Minister, in Tokyo. (AFP)
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Strong 60magnitude quake hits western Japan govt
Posted by admin on Apr 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOKYO: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit western Japan early Saturday but there was no risk of a tsunami, the country’s meteorological agency reported.
The quake struck at 5:33 am (2033 GMT on Friday) near Awaji island in the Seto Inland Sea southwest of the city of Kobe at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), the agency said.
The US Geological Survey also measured the tremor at 6.0 but at...
Magnitude6 undersea quake off Japan
Posted by admin on Apr 02, 2013 | Leave a Comment
NEW YORK: A magnitude-6.0 undersea earthquake hit off eastern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. No tsunami alert was issued.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake, which the USGS said happened at 4:53 am on Tuesday local time (1853 GMT yesterday).
The USGS said the quake hit some 107 kilometres (66 miles) east of Miyako, Japan, and some 327 kilometres (526 miles) northeast of Tokyo.
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Pakistani mango exporters urged to explore Japan markets
Posted by admin on Mar 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOKYO: Stressing the need for jacking up exports of fruit, Ambassador of Pakistan to Japan, Farukh Amil, said that Pakistani mangoes with their irresistible taste would certainly attract the Japanese market, Geo News reported.
Speaking to a delegation of Sindh Mango Growers from Pakistan and the Japanese importers here, he hoped that Pakistani mangoes would be marketed in Japan, meeting all the Japanese standards, this...
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