FCCJ: The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan aggregator

Mainichi Daily News: Akita maintains top spot, Kochi and Osaka fall further in academic ability ranking

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:14:00 +0900

Akita is on top and Osaka and Kochi are slumping once again, according to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, following the announcement of the results of the National Assessment of Academic Ability.

Mainichi Daily News: Lack of international savvy, inflexibility doomed Japan's national baseball team

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:52:00 +0900

Japan's national baseball team, which had gone to the Olympics determined to bring home a gold medal, finished in fourth place.

Mainichi Daily News: 150 photos of post-Great Kanto Earthquake Yokohama found in Tokyo home

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0900

A large collection of photos of the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 in Yokohama have been found in the home of a Tokyo resident.

Mainichi Daily News: Slick new au phone targets middle-aged and elderly customers

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:53:00 +0900

KDDI Corp., the operator of au brand cell phones, has announced the release of the Sharp Urbano, a mobile phone targeting middle-aged and elderly customers that is due to go on sale mid-September.

Mainichi Daily News: Oita Education Board to sack 21 teachers over recruitment scandal

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:09:00 +0900

The Oita Prefectural Board of Education has decided to sack 21 teachers confirmed to have illicitly passed the employment exam for the 2008 academic year, following an investigation into a recruitment scandal.

Mainichi Daily News: The Power of Diversity

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:06:00 +0900

When University of Michigan professor Scott Page was in charge of admissions for the university he did not look only at test scores, but also focused on students' personal backgrounds and experiences.

Mainichi Daily News: Radioactive substance that leaked from U.S. nuclear-powered sub was cobalt

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:31:00 +0900

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Mainichi Daily News: Pension calculation mistake results in 1.19 billion yen in unpaid benefits

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:24:00 +0900

The Social Insurance Agency has announced that nearly 1.19 billion yen in pension benefits went unpaid between April 1999 and July 2008 due to a mistake in calculating pension amounts for people receiving an elderly workers' salary supplement under an employment insurance scheme.

Mainichi Daily News: Alleged abductor of murdered Japanese man says Taliban ordered kidnapping

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:20:00 +0900

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A man under arrest in Afghanistan in connection with the abduction of a Japanese man who was later murdered said that the Taliban ordered the kidnapping, it has been learned.

Mainichi Daily News: Prosecutors drop appeal against doctor's acquittal over Caesarean death

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:11:00 +0900

FUKUSHIMA -- Prosecutors have dropped an appeal against the acquittal of a doctor who was charged over the death of a 29-yer-old woman during a Caesarean section operation.