Niigata, Sept 17, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Prof. Philip Sugai, who served as the Associate Dean of the Graduate School of International Management (GSIM) at the International University of Japan (IUJ) for the past two years, has assumed the Deanship as of September 1, 2008. And Prof.

By Hosoe, Tomoko Japan's energy policy encourages an increased use of natural gas and nuclear power to mitigate climate change and diversify the energy mix away from oil. This would effectively reduce Japan's energy reliance on the Middle East.

Troops and volunteers in Japan shoveled snow from roads and roofs on Sunday as the death toll from the country's heaviest snowfall on record rose to more than 60.

TOKYO - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked northern Japan on Monday, injuring at least eight people, near the area where the country's deadliest earthquake in years struck last month. The quake, which hit at 11:16 a.m., appeared to be an aftershock to last month's magnitude-6.8 temblor.

OJIYA, Japan - Yoshikazu Ogawa stood outside the pile of rubble that was once his home, poking around the plaster and wood that had suddenly come crashing down on his two minivans when a series of earthquakes hit northern Japan, killing at least 21 people and injuring some 2,000.