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- Chestnut wins NY hot dog eating match, 3d in row
(AP)
 AP - Joey Chestnut chomped down a record 68 hot dogs, capturing his third straight July Fourth hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island, an annual showcase for flamboyant hot dogging contestants eager to show they really are what they eat.
- Don't aggravate tensions, US warns N Korea
Salvo...North Korea fired seven Scud missiles (r) into the Sea of Japan. (Reuters: Lee Jae-Won, file photo) The United States has urged North Korea not to 'aggravate tensions' as it slammed Pyongyang's latest missile test, apparently timed for the US
- Japan ancillary exhibit
THE foundation stone was laid yesterday for Japan's first overseas industry pavilion that will complement the country's national pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010. Fourteen Japanese firms have confirmed they will be involved in the 4,000-square-meter
- Chestnut wins NY hot dog eating match, again
(AP)
AP - Joey Chestnut chomped down a record 68 hot dogs, capturing his third straight July Fourth hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island, an annual showcase for flamboyant hot dogging contestants eager to show they really are what they eat.
- Challenges remain as Japan emerges from gloom
By Mure Dickie For the world's second largest economy, better does not mean good. Data released over the past two weeks support hopes that Japan has passed through the harshest stage of its deepest slump since the second world war. Growth in industrial
- Aso fate rides on Tokyo showdown
The election campaign for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly that kicked off Friday is the preliminary battle for the looming Lower House election and could determine the fate of Prime Minister Taro Aso and his Cabinet, analysts said. Voting for the
- Japan hopes for progress on territorial row in G8
Tokyo, July 4 Kyodo - As leaders of the Group of Eight economies gather in Italy on Wednesday to discuss global issues, Japan hopes to use the occasion to seek progress on bilateral concerns, especially over a decades-old territorial dispute between it
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While retaining its time-honored culture, Japan rapidly absorbed Western technology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After its devastating defeat in World War II, Japan recovered to become the second most powerful economy in the world and a staunch ally of the US. While the emperor retains his throne as a symbol of national unity, actual power rests in networks of powerful politicians, bureaucrats, and business executives. The economy experienced a major slowdown in the 1990s following three decades of unprecedented growth.
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AP - John Fallan's trained eye scans rows of iceboxes brimming with tiger fish and shrimp in a Vietnamese supermarket, searching for one pesky fish that threatens the health of seafood lovers.
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