Japan News latest RSS headlines - Japan Herald.comProvides the latest RSS feeds for Japan News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home pageFour-fifiths of smokers yet to apply for cigarette ID card- June 27, 2008 Only 22 percent of smokers have obtained taspo, the age verification IC cards needed to buy cigarettes from vending machines, possibly because of cumbersome application procedures, the Tobacco Institu...http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/15815684/ Japan firm scraps ad after racial controversy- June 27, 2008 TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese mobile phone firm has halted an advertisement depicting a monkey as a political candidate after bloggers said the commercial was a racial slur against U.S. Democratic pres...http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/15812587/ Delisting of North a blow to Japan- June 27, 2008 Japanese government officials tried hard not to show their disappointment Thursday at an announcement by Washington that it was removing North Korea from its list of states that sponsor terrorism. ...http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/15811805/ Eel trader paid 10 million Yen for silence- June 27, 2008 KOBE--An Osaka trader at the center of an eel mislabeling racket allegedly paid 10 million yen in hush money to an official of a seafood wholesaler here also embroiled in the scandal. Officials ...http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/15811804/ TEPCO eyes drastic hike in charges- June 27, 2008 Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to review its rate structure in September and hike charges for electricity in January or later, officials said on Thursday. The rate review will result in a "consi...http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/15811803/ Man blamed in Aum attack pens book- June 27, 2008 MATSUMOTO, Nagano Prefecture--Yoshiyuki Kono, wrongly accused of an act of terrorism 14 years ago today, has published a book about his ordeal and his love for his wife, who has been in a coma since t...http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/15811802/ Nomura faces order over insider trading- June 27, 2008 The Financial Services Agency will issue a business improvement order to Nomura Securities Co. over the suspected insider trading by a former employee at the nation&039;s largest brokerage, sources said. ...http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c4f2dd8ca8c78044/id/15811801/ |