Road named after nation's first finance minister bi13671174 KUALA LUMPUR: Mention Jalan Bandar, and many old- timers even today, point you the right direction. But Jalan Bandar no longer on the map of the nation's capital

First solo exhibition by Japanese artist Kaoruko opens at the Mike Weiss Gallery bi13671174 KAORUKO, Aroma Exersize, 2010, 85 x 122 inches, Acrylic, screen printing and sumi on canvas. Photo: Courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery. NEW YORK, N.Y.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents first solo exhibition by Japanese artist KAORUKO. Aromako, a play on words combining the artist?s and visual theme of the work, explores the complexity of the modern Japanese woman terms of her relationship ..

NTT Docomo unveils real-time speech translation app for phones bi13671174 NTT Docomo, Japan?s leading cell phone carrier, has unveiled real-time speech-to-speech translation service that works both person and over the phone. Introduced back June, the service a combination of several cloud-based services, including speech recognition (as seen Siri), automated translation, and text-to-speech conversion of the translated results. Demonstrations on ..

Nick Clegg's mother Hermance nearly starved to death Japanese prison camp bi13671174 Hermance Clegg, 74, was just six-years-old hwne family were sent to 'Hell on Earth' the Dutch East Indies. She was held her mother and two sisters her father another camp nearby

MarketWatch First Take: Even Japanese scandals now carry Greek name bi13671174 It?s fitting that even when the Japanese are accused of fiddling the books, it?s a Greek , writes Steve Goldstein

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A lost gem found confirms who was the father of Japanese filmmaking bi13671174 In July 1959, Japan's leading film magazine, Kinema Junpo, published a list of what hailed as "The best 10 Japanese films of all time." This list included works by such acknowledged masters as Mikio Naruse, as well as the young but by then amply acclaimed Akira Kurosawa. Yasujiro Ozu's "I Was Born But " came third; Kenji Mizoguchi's "Sisters of the Gion," second. But the work ..

UBC to honour Japanese-Canadian students sent to internment camps bi13671174 At 18 years old, Mitts Sumiya had engineering degree and hopes of becoming a nuclear physicist cruelly torn from when he was shut out of the University of British Columbia and shipped to a Second World War internment camp the province's hinterland

The B-class-food boom reveals true Japanese cuisine bi13671174 Two weeks ago, an advisory panel to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recommended apply to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for recognition of Japanese cuisine as an intangible cultural asset. The panel made suggestion after UNESCO granted the same status to French and Mediterranean cooking. The chefs and restaurant owners who make up ..

Local Japanese-American WWII vets glad to finally be acknowledged by U.S. gov bi13671174 The Japanese call ?gaman? ? a national virtue that roughly translates as ?patience? or ?endurance.??Whatever comes your way, you do the best you can,? how 86-year-old Army veteran Enoch Kanaya puts it. It a quality that Kanaya and generation of Japanese-Americans have long relied upon.Deeply distrusted and subjected to heartbreaking abuse by fellow citizens following the ..

Local Japanese-American WWII vets enjoy overdue thank-you bi13671174 The Japanese call ?gaman? ? a national virtue that roughly translates as ?patience? or ?endurance.??Whatever comes your way, you do the best you can,? how 86-year-old Army veteran Enoch Kanaya puts it. It a quality that Kanaya and generation of Japanese-Americans have long relied upon.Deeply distrusted and subjected to heartbreaking abuse by fellow citizens following the ..

No Cheering Allowed for Japanese at North Korean Soccer Showdown bi13671174 The Japanese national soccer team faces North Korea Tuesday night, a World Cup qualifier played the DPRK for the first time 1989 ? and 150 Japanese fans be there to cheer on team, quietly. Japan and North Korea have no..

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