| Tibetans weigh limited number of options |
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| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:11:00 PST |
| HONG KONG — The latest round of talks between representatives of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government predictably failed to make progress, and now hundreds of Tibetans are gathering in Dharamsala, India for a weeklong crisis meeting to discuss the way forward.
Since the two sides had a totally different understanding of the nature of the talks, it was not surprising that they could not reach an agreement. Read the full story |
| Drunk driving deadly serious |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:12:00 PST |
| Recent traffic incidents show that some people are not aware of the serious nature of drunk driving. While the use of marijuana among university students has been in the public limelight recently, drunk driving — an infinitely more common problem with far deadlier results — should be the subject of equally serious discussion.
On the night of Nov. 17, a superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Department was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture. He was so drunk that he was unsteady on his feet. As a man who spent most of his career in traffic safety, including a stint at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as head of a section to promote traffic safety... Read the full story |
| Aso to talk with Bush at APEC |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:13:00 PST |
| WASHINGTON (Kyodo) U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Prime Minister Taro Aso in Lima on Saturday on the sidelines of the weekend summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the White House said Wednesday.
It will be the first formal meeting between Bush and Aso, who became prime minister in late September. Read the full story |
| Masuda defends 'hawkish' classes |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:14:00 PST |
| The Defense Ministry will continue to provide a balanced education at its Joint Staff College, but will not immediately respond to criticism that some of its lecturers are known to hold nationalistic views, Vice Defense Minister Kohei Masuda said Thursday.
Sessions at an Upper House committee last week revealed that sacked Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Toshio Tamogami, ousted for justifying Japan's wartime aggression in an essay, had launched lecture courses on wartime history during his stint as head of the JSC. Read the full story |
| Maglev slated for early 2010s start |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:15:00 PST |
| NAGOYA (Kyodo) Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) hopes to start building a magnetic levitation train system linking Tokyo and Nagoya by the first half of the 2010s to meet its plan to launch the service in 2025, the carrier's president said.
"Given that it will take at least 10 years (for the train system) to be completed, we need to get started (on construction) as soon as possible," JR Tokai President Masayuki Matsumoto said Wednesday. Read the full story |
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