News on Tokyo

Green Tea Does Not Prevent Breast Cancer

2010-11-03T15:45:31Z

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See the Best of Tokyo in Just One Day - A Guide For Reluctant Disney Fans

2010-11-03T01:12:42Z

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Japan's Obama town ecstatic over presidential mention

2010-04-16T09:09:55Z

US President Barack Obama charmed his Tokyo audience on Saturday with references to green tea ice cream, Japanese traditional hospitality and, of course, the small town that bears his name.

"I could not come here without sending my greetings and my gratitude to the citizens of Obama, Japan," said the president to the delight of the western Japa...

Green Tea Good for the Gut

2010-10-26T23:07:09Z

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Green tea linked to less stomach cancer in women

2010-04-16T10:08:09Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As if you needed another reason to drink green tea: Japanese women, but not Japanese men, who regularly drink 5 or more cups daily appear about 20 percent less likely to develop stomach cancer, study findings hint.

Researchers have studied green tea in cancer prevention because they suspect that the drink's antioxidants may protect against the deadly disease. In particular, it may include ...

Japan New Year

2010-12-31T05:01:02Z

Women chat as they offer this year's last prayers at a temple in China town in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

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Japan World Markets

2010-12-30T01:01:25Z

Traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange react during the afternoon trading in Tokyo at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Most Asian stock markets traded in narrow ranges Thursday as fewer investors participated in the market ahead of the New Year holiday while Japan's Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, after their classes were canceled following a knife attack at the station Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. An unemployed Japanese man with a knife attacked students and other passengers waiting on two public buses outside the station Friday in a rampage that...

CORRECTION Japan Stabbings

2010-12-16T20:01:54Z

RETRANSMISSION WITHOUT REPETITIVE PART OF THE CAPTION AND ADD BACKGROUND - Police officers investigate the bus stop where a knife attack took place in Toride, Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. An unemployed Japanese man with a knife attacked grade school students aboard a bus Friday in a rampage that left 13 people injured, police said. Police arrested

Singapore Myanmar Lee

2010-12-15T00:32:05Z

FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file photo, Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew speaks during the 16th International Conference on The Future of Asia, organized by Japanese newspaper company Nikk...