http://mdn.mainichi.jp/ All the stories published by the Mainichi Daily News, the number one source of news on Japan in English. en The copyright of the materials belongs to the Mainichi Newspapers Co. unless stated otherwise. 2009-11-23T05:09:23+09:00 The Mainichi Newspapers The Mainichi Newspapers http://mdn.mainichi.jp/ http://mdn.mainichi.jp/image/header/LogoMDN.gif http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/Dem1xsqmgmc/20091121p2a00m0na007000c.html Amid the ever intensifying competition for survival, college cafeterias are undergoing major changes in an attempt to attract more students, with some offering a conveyor-belt fresh sushi bar or an open-air Italian restaurant. 2009-11-22T16:00:00+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091121p2a00m0na007000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/6Z3P34u3UoM/20091121p2a00m0na004000c.html MAEBASHI -- A popular Japanese-Brazilian married pop duo will return to Brazil at the end of this month after a five-year career in professional music in Japan, aiming at breaking into the music industry in their homeland. 2009-11-22T14:00:00+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/arts/news/20091121p2a00m0na004000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/wMo7toYZCuw/20091121p2a00m0na017000c.html A 29-year-old amateur poet has won the Mainichi's Senryu contest, after her entries received accolades for their witty expressions about human emotions. 2009-11-22T12:00:00+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/arts/archive/news/2009/11/20091121p2a00m0na017000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/f5bsA2mPdHI/20091121p2a00m0na025000c.html The administration of U.S. 2009-11-22T10:00:00+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/column/news/20091121p2a00m0na025000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/qJwQMV9MqL4/20091121p2a00m0na009000c.html Nissan's new Fuga luxury sedan went on sale across Japan earlier this week. 2009-11-22T08:00:00+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/business/news/20091121p2a00m0na009000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/23RH-mjQ59U/20091121p2a00m0na024000c.html A British medical journal has retracted a clinical study submitted by a team of Japanese researchers, after another study group questioned the credibility of its results. 2009-11-21T19:00:26+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091121p2a00m0na024000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/6HfyUXpk6ts/20091121p2a00m0na020000c.html YOMITAN, Okinawa -- A U.S. 2009-11-21T18:30:53+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091121p2a00m0na020000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/w0bTJwD6zSo/20091121p2a00m0na019000c.html High-ranking Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology officials exchanged views Friday on the promotion of media arts with former members of the six-person preparatory committee for the cancelled "anime museum." 2009-11-21T18:18:30+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091121p2a00m0na019000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/uYNgPmPHkl8/20091121p2a00m0na018000c.html URUMA, Okinawa -- Five junior high school students have been arrested for allegedly beating a classmate to death, police said on Friday. 2009-11-21T17:46:30+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091121p2a00m0na018000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/1CMahi2zGGo/20091121p2a00m0na015000c.html Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano has revealed that the former Aso administration received 250 million yen in secret state funds immediately after it suffered a humiliating defeat in the House of Representatives election in August. 2009-11-21T16:01:16+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091121p2a00m0na015000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/8KhjTIYt0tQ/20091121p2a00m0na013000c.html Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Friday repeated yet again that the Futenma base relocation issue will be settled by the end of the year, with signs pointing to an agreement based on the original plan worked out by the previous government. 2009-11-21T15:16:51+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091121p2a00m0na013000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/huc4DUo-GU8/20091121p2a00m0na011000c.html Hiroshi Maruya, an honorary director of Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima, was diagnosed with bladder cancer in April this year. 2009-11-21T14:39:35+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/hibakusha/archive/news/2009/20091121p2a00m0na011000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/lFDz2cNusrE/20091121p2a00m0na002000c.html Faults with credit card readers at convenience store chain Lawson have left customers out of pocket to the tune of 1.47 million yen, the company admitted Friday. 2009-11-21T13:04:29+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091121p2a00m0na002000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/MRP3hh0xFXk/20091121p2a00m0na001000c.html Tatsuya Ichihashi, who spent two years, seven months on the run from police after fleeing from his apartment where the body of Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker was found, reportedly showed no resistance when police apprehended him at a ferry terminal in Osaka this month. 2009-11-21T12:36:43+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/column/news/20091121p2a00m0na001000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/EIvkLqiyg-g/20091120p2a00m0na019000c.html OSAKA -- An Osaka-based fashion consultancy faces charges of tax evasion after concealing corporate revenue and making fictitious financial reports to the regional taxation office here. 2009-11-20T19:01:16+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/arts/archive/news/2009/11/20091120p2a00m0na019000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/Mk2drgPqVRQ/20091120p2a00m0na018000c.html A Japan-U.S. working group established to examine the relocation of U.S. 2009-11-20T18:14:56+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091120p2a00m0na018000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/wshluh0InFs/20091120p2a00m0na017000c.html Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi have agreed to settle a bilateral dispute over the development of oil fields in the East China Sea at an early date, government officials said. 2009-11-20T17:43:03+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091120p2a00m0na017000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/Cpa4nIbkdrs/20091120p2a00m0na015000c.html Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday that the Japanese economy has slipped into a state of deflation. 2009-11-20T17:25:36+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091120p2a00m0na015000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/Fcfj9UunsLs/20091023p2g00m0fe034000c.html harvest moon --in Satoyamagrandma gnaws the air--Raquel D. Bailey (Tallahassee, FL, USA) 2009-11-21T10:30:00+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/haiku/archive/news/2009/11/20091023p2g00m0fe034000c.html?inb=rs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/G100wFC-OFk/20091023p2g00m0fe033000c.html humid nightrabbit on the moonstrolls with us--charlie smith (Raleigh, NC, USA) 2009-11-20T09:30:00+09:00 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/haiku/archive/news/2009/11/20091023p2g00m0fe033000c.html?inb=rs