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  • Shogun 2: Reader Q&A Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 4:43PMShogun II: Total War (PC) The Creative Assembly answers questions submitted by IGN's readers!
  • Daily Dose: 09/07/10 Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 4:37PMBay »CA Nisei College Diploma Project seeking Nikkei CCSF students San Francisco – The California Nisei College Diploma Project is seeking to locate Japanese immigrant, or Nikkei students whose studies at the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) were halted due to the signing of...
  • Despite the big spender image, Japanese actually love to save Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 3:59PMThere's this image that the Japanese are drop-dead, go-all-out kaimono-chūdokusho (買い物中毒症, shopaholics), despite whatever the latest dreary news bulletin on the global recession says. While that may be true, it's also a fact of our collective lives that the Japanese hate spending, with every fiber of our being. Call it the Japan paradox, or just plain perverse, but while many of us won't blink ...
  • MARKETING Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 1:44PMRETAILING: IPOs, private equity are in for apparel retailers Look at making the most when the economy is booming.
  • San Diego/Del Mar Partner Added as Co-Chair of Firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 1:10PMhttp://www.sheppardmullin.com () ?Stephen S. Korniczky has joined the San Diego/Del Mar office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property practice group. Korniczky will also co-chair the firm's 70-attorney IP practice group with current...
  • Mark Hurd: From king of H-P to Oracle samurai Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 1:10PMAs he begins a new job at Oracle, Hurd will join a technology giant known for fierce competition, and for typically not letting scandals, including those sexual in nature, distract it from trying to beat up on rivals.
  • Top Patent Litigator Steve Korniczky Joins Sheppard Mullin Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 12:31PMSan Diego/Del Mar Partner Added as Co-Chair of Firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group
  • Cultural fair promotes campus diversity Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 12:28PMOutfitted in a checkered robe and yielding a guitar with punk prowess tantamount to Steven Tyler, junior Ryo Hyawaka performed a Japanese peace song titled "RyuKyu Aika" to a crowd of international students, Omaha natives and a generous mix of minorities.
  • Top Patent Litigator Steve Korniczky Joins Sheppard Mullin Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 12:25PMSAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - 09/07/10) - Stephen S. Korniczky has joined the San Diego/Del Mar office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property practice group. Korniczky will also co-chair the firm's 70-attorney IP practice group with current co-chairs Daniel N. Yannuzzi and Carlo F. Van den Bosch. Korniczky most recently practiced at Paul ...
  • Saipan Awaodori Team back on Saipan Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 9:04AMMembers of the Saipan Awaodori Team returned home to Saipan last Sept. 2 after their weeklong stay in Japan for the Awaodori Festival. The young dancers were all smiles as they hugged their families who came to get them at the airport Thursday afternoon along with some staff of PDM Promoters.
  • Japanese teahouse for two Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 7:31AMThe home of Bonnie and Jim Bell was once your typical Berkeley Arts and Crafts abode. But over the past eight years, the couple has introduced a Japanese sensibility to the architecture and landscaping of the house - transforming it into a beautiful standout... Arts and crafts - Japanese people - House - Japan - Asia
  • Artist bends and folds books for new creation Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 6:38AMJacqueline Rush Lee's lifelong love of books has fueled her inspiration as a fine artist. Books not only serve as the medium for her work, but the art she creates with them leads both her audience and herself to explore themes of transformation.
  • August 13 through 19 Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 3:59AMArgazzi Art: 22 Millerton Rd., Lakeville. “New Works by Katherine Bowling, Kevin Bean, Kathy Moss and Anne Siems”: Through August. For information: 860-435-8222.
  • Days of Infamy: Connecting the dots between Dec. 7 and Sept. 11 Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:50PMBook review: "Cultures of War," by John W. Dower. Norton/New Press, $29.95.
  • Touring Berlin's famous toilets Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:09PMFor tourists tired of traditional sightseeing tours, one Berlin tour guide is offering something altogether different: a tour of Berlin's public conveniences.
  • Food & Wine's Taste Of Beverly Hills Culminates Sunday Night With 'A BBQ In The Hills' Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 10:56PMExpect the unexpected as local top chefs and restaurants express their interpretation of what BBQ is all about. Demonstrations will be held by Chefs Celestino and Giacomino Drago at 7:30 p.m. and Chef Kerry Simon at 8:45pm.
  • ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 5/9 Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 10:26PMThe second International Puppetry Festival was held at the Hanoi Opera House on September 4, attracting the participation of 17 Vietnamese and foreign art troupes.
  • PAX 2010: Shogun 2: Total War preview Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 9:22PMWe get a first-hand glimpse at the vastly upgraded scale of Creative Assembly's highly anticipated sequel, Shogun 2: Total War.
  • Threats keep dolphin protest out of Japan village Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 10:31AM(AP:TOKYO) The star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group.
  • Murakami's Planned Show at Versailles Riles Right-Wing Critics Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 9:17AMThe Coordination de la Défense de Versailles (CDV) doesn’t pull any punches when expressing its opposition to the upcoming exhibition of Japanese Pop artist Takashi Murakami at the Château of Versailles. Having been formed to press (unsuccessfully) for the cancellation of a Jeff Koons show in the palace in 2008, the organization now condemns what it calls "the veritable ‘murder’ of our heritage ...
  • UVU sends archaeology class, marketers to Peru Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:37AMWith a charge from President Matthew Holland for students to be engaged in their learning, anthropology and archaeology students from Utah Valley University and their teacher are heeding the call. The
  • Vietnam's Complicated Relationship with the US Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:23AM35 years after the war, Vietnam has to come to terms with the US, and the US has to come to terms with Vietnam
  • Threats keep dolphin protest out of Japan village Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:17AMThe star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the c
  • Threats keep dolphin protest out of Japan village Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:38AMThe star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group.... Japan - Cove - Academy Award - Asia - Documentary film
  • ‘Ground Zero’ mosque is not a question of religion Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:33AMThe spread of misinformation concerning the proposed “mosque” two blocks from the World Trade Center is extremely concerning. What is being proposed is not a mosque. It is a community center.
  • Threats keep dolphin protest out of Japan village Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:20AMThe star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from...
  • CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: "India and Africa": Coltrane Tribute by Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:06AMFor the last dozen years, percussionist-composer Anthony Brown's innovative Asian American Orchestra has reinvented classics of American music by composers Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and George Gershwin from a Pacific Rim perspective by mixing instruments of European and American vintage with those of various Asian cultures. Now, with the September 28 release of India and ...
  • Taco rice omelet had humble start in Onna Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 6:59AMThere are plenty of shops and restaurants across Okinawa that loudly tout their omutaco, or taco rice omelet, but only one –Kijimunaa originally from Onna Village—can lay claim to being the original.
  • Website aims to help Guam's World War II survivors Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:08PMRegina Reyes, 95, remembers making corn titiyas, or flatbread, and selling it by the side of the road for 50 cents to survive during the Japanese occupation of Guam during World War II.
  • National News More>> Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:59PMObama: End of combat mission in Iraq not a time for victory lap; still work to be done. More>>
  • Website aims to help Guam's World War II survivors Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:59PMRegina Reyes, 95, remembers making corn titiyas, or flatbread, and selling it by the side of the road for 50 cents to survive during the Japanese occupation of Guam during World War II. World War II - Guam - Website - History - Twentieth Century
  • Long-form journalism lives on online Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:31PMWith the help of Twitter and sites such as Long Form and The Awl, longer articles are finding a new lease of life as people take the time to find and read them Everybody's got it in for the web this summer. It's getting the blame for everything from destroying our businesses to destroying our brains . Rupert Murdoch is still trying to see if newspapers such as the Times can leave the open web ...
  • Latvia's mushroom mania aims for world audience - Feature Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:12PMRiga - Some Latvians are more than happy to bid farewell to one of the finest summers on record and welcome the autumn rains that herald the start of the mushrooming season.
  • Learning a foreign language: Now you're talking Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:09PMWhen it comes to learning languages in the UK, we are notoriously apathetic – but it is never too late to start. As Jeremy Hazlehurst says, it could be a great way to boost your career Arsenal, Lyon, Milan and Celtic played at the Emirates Cup football tournament in London this month. After the games, as always, the players milled about in the corridors, mingling with the journalists. It can be ...
  • True believers in Osborne's budget cuts may harm their career prospects Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:01PMIf the recovery strengthens, the markets will not care if dire threats to public spending peter out Tory ministers boasting about how eager they are to please George Osborne by cutting their budgets risk forgetting the mercurial cabinet career of John Moore. Blond, handsome and a Thatcherite true believer, he was tipped for the very top, but fell to Earth in 1989 after a series of keen-to-please ...
  • Original Navajo Code Talker still tells his story Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:55PMALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Tourists hurry inside a shop here to buy books about the famed Navajo Code Talkers, warriors who used their native language as their primary weapon.
  • The Frozen Zoo aiming to bring endangered species back from the brink Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:53PMSan Diego Zoo began collecting skin samples from rare animals in 1972 in the hope they might be used to protect these endangered species in the future. A breakthrough in stem-cell technology means that day is getting closer The inside of a metal box filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to -173C (-280F) is hardly the ideal habitat for a large African mammal. But, as a test tube is fished out of ...
  • Original Navajo Code Talker still tells his story Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:52PMPosted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:36 pm | Updated: 9:39 pm, Tue Aug 31, 2010. ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Tourists hurry inside a shop here to buy books about the famed Navajo Code Talkers, warriors who used their native language as their primary weapon.
  • Don't tell the protesters, but the RBS HQ is opening to the public Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 5:07AMFOR the protesters who staged a week-long demo on its front lawn, the Royal Bank of Scotland's Gogarburn headquarters was decidedly off limits.
  • Shalom, Middlebury Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:29AMDuring the summer, the calm, woodsy Middlebury College campus in Vermont is like many other liberal arts campuses in the summer. It is a bit more desolate than usual, but because of the nice weather, the students seem happier.
  • Glory, Hulic, JX Holdings, Kura, Nippon Shokubai, Takeda: Equity Preview Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:24AMThe following companies may have unusual price changes in Japanese trading tomorrow. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close. The information in each item was released after markets shut, unless stated otherwise.
  • National Day celebration captures 1Malaysia essence Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:09AMKUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday 31 August 2010 (Bernama) -- Despite being held indoor, this year's 53rd National Day celebration managed to capture the essence of 1Malaysia and the government's determination to transform the country, leaders said.
  • Japan welcomes Zaccheroni as new football coach Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 2:13AMAlberto Zaccheroni´s appointment as Japan coach was welcomed by local media who said Tuesday his attack-minded style could help the Blue Samurai build on progress made at the last World Cup.
  • Japan welcomes Zaccheroni as new football coach Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 2:11AMTOKYO (AFP) - Alberto Zaccheroni's appointment as Japan coach was welcomed by local media who said Tuesday his attack-minded style could help the Blue Samurai build on progress made at the last World Cup.
  • Ecumenical Youth Exchange Program inspires youths to take up missions (Taiwan Church N Ecumenical Yo) Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 1:09AMTaiwan Church News 3052 Edition August 23~29, 2010 Ecumenical Youth Exchange Program inspires youths to take up missions Reported by Sam Lee Written by Lydia Ma PCT held its annual Ecumenical Youth Exchange Program (EYEP) during mid-August this year and hosted youths from Japan and Canada simultaneously.
  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: Osborne, Tesco, Airlines... Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 12:46AMLONDON (SHARECAST) - George Osborne is planning to cut staff numbers at the Treasury by about one-quarter and scale back his department’s role as he attempts to lead by example in the search for sweeping spending cuts across Whitehall.
  • Foot fetish Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 12:43AMCaitlin Burke, 26, was in the elevator when she texted her friend to let him know she was on her way up for the party he and his roommate were hosting. “Cool. Take your shoes off at the door,” Burke’s pal responded. “I freaked out,” Burke says. “I was...
  • Re-visiting a simulated palace of the Baekje Kingdom Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 10:59PMIf history has taught us anything, it is that conquerors are remembered, forever etched into the record books while the fallen are easily forgotten. The demise of the Baekje Kingdom carries with it .....
  • 'Stealth Jihad' Conveys Paranoia Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 7:07AMHere is the latest semantic assault from the party that brought you “Islamo-facism” (circa 2005) and “Axis of Evil” (2002). The term “stealth jihad” is suddenly voguish among politically ambitious right wingers who see President Obama’s approach to terrorism as insufficient.
  • Japan, Vietnam show culture at annual festival Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 5:00AMA spirited exhibition of Japanese and Vietnamese cultural performances was held at the eighth annual Vietnam-Japan Cultural Festival in Hoi An last Saturday, August 21.