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New Photos Reveal Horror Of Hiroshima (GRAPHIC IMAGES)

Sean Malloy, a professor at the University of California Merced, "recently unearthed 10 previously-unpublished photographs illustrating the aftermath on the Hiroshima bombing."

Is It Hump Day Already?

Japan's oft-criticized "scientific" whaling fleet will be extra busy this season as it aims to land up to 1,035 whales in what could be the country's largest whale hunt in modern times. Included in the toll: up to 50 humpback whales, the first time they've been targeted in some 40 years.

Japan rocked by major earthquake, spills radioactive water into Ocean

Meanwhile the Seattle Times AP wire reports "world's most powerful nuclear power plant and causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea - an accident not reported to the public for hours."

Typhoon kills three, heads out to Pacific | The Japan Times Online

A missing man was found dead Sunday, bringing the death toll from Typhoon Man-yi to three as the storm passed south of Tokyo and moved out over the Pacific Ocean. The 79-year-old man who went missing the night before was discovered in a river in Yoshinogawa, Tokushima Prefecture, police and rescue workers said.

My Sister Disappeared | True Stories, Eyewitness News, Citizen Journalism, Free Classifieds

Revelle Balmain was an Australian dancer and model who was about to return to Japan to take up another dance contract. She was due to meet her friend on the evening of November 5th, 1994 but never made it. Her friend last spoke to her by phone at 7:15 p.m. Police interviewed a 31-year-old man who had been with Revelle on the afternoon prior to her disappearance...

Geo-politics and oil: Japanese leader visits the US and Middle East

More than six months after assuming power, Japan s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe finally made his first trip to Washington on April 26. He then travelled on to visit five major oil producers in the Middle East, demonstrating that one of the fundamentals of the US-Japan alliance is energy.

Japan: Drillers target earthquake zone

"The place we are going to has a history of disastrous earthquakes and tsunami every 100 or 200 years; and these have resulted in the deaths of many people," explained Chief Project Scientist Masataka Kino****a, from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Jamstec). "There is a strong need in the Japanese community to know what is going on under the sea floor," he told BBC News.

Nagasaki Mayor shot to death by Yakuza

The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, news agencies reported.

Japan-Australia security declaration strengthens US encirclement of China

A joint security declaration signed by Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 13 is a significant step toward the formation of a triangular US-Japan-Australia grouping directed against China.

Anti - Whaler Nations Give Japan a Warning

'The Japanese whaling program next year envisages killing humpback whales. Humpbacks are one of the most iconic whale species. I know this program is going to generate enormous hostility from round the world,'' he said. New Zealand would voice its opposition to the program with the Japanese at the IWC's next annual meeting, in Alaska in May, he told New Zealand's National Radio.

PwC's troubles in Japan

PricewaterhouseCoopers will have to get used to having next to no presence in the world's second biggest economy after it was forced to close down its Japanese accounting affiliate because it got involved in giant fraud.

Japan's Blue Whale and Minke Whale Hunt Ends

The Japanese say they take only Minke Whales but Blue have been taken too: The country admitted yesterday that this year's hunt - due to kill 945 whales by mid-March - will probably have to be abandoned as a result of a fire that has crippled its fleet's mother ship, the Nisshin Maru, and raised fears of an oil spill into the area's pristine waters

U.S. submarine, Japanese ship collide

Wow - pretty incredible that our submarines can't seem to point radar up! Or is this just our version of Bush-Cheney diplomacy?

Japan, Home of the Cute and Inbred Dog

Japan chases fads: Rampant inbreeding has given Japanese dogs some of the highest rates of genetic defects in the world, sometimes four times higher than in the United States and Europe. There have been dogs with brain disorders so severe that they spent all day running in circles, and others with bones so frail they dissolved in their bodies.

Japan's style of corporate governance: shareholders take a back seat

Investors' gripes in Japan are getting louder. But Japan will never have a system where shareholders are in charge. But we are past the time when one Anglo-American style of corporate governance should fit all. Just ask the people at Toyota which will now overtake General Motors as the world s biggest and most successful car manufacturer.