According to VOA News, Tokyo has lodged a formal protest with Burma over the death of a Japanese journalist during Thursday’s pro-democracy protests in Rangoon.

Officials say Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura issued the protest when he met his Burmese counterpart, Nyan Win, on Friday at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Japanese officials say Nyan Win said he was sorry for the death, and added that Burma’s government hopes to exercise restraint.

Burmese authorities originally said the Japanese victim was hit by a stray bullet.

But the video clip of Fuji television network show a soldier pointing his rifle and shooting from close range. View the video clip below. Read the rest of this entry »

Venus Williams, Six-time Grand Slam champion, is expected to be the top seed in the upcoming week’s AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo.

Sania Mirza(India) is scheduled to be the second seed, and will be returning to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour for the first time since the US Open after recovering from a wrist injury.

The following are the Seeded Players: Read the rest of this entry »

Japan play a very important role in the form of investment in Burma, but the death of Photojournalist might cause a changed. Japanese reaction to the death of journalist Kenji Nagai is worth following. A colleague in Japan, Taka Furuichi, provides the brief summary of the press reaction as the following: Read the rest of this entry »

According to major Japanese newspapers, the support rate for the Cabinet of newly-elected Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was generally over 50 percent.

As of the opinion polls conducted by the daily newspapers - Asahi daily, the Mainichi daily, the Yomiuri daily and the Nikkei daily, the rate was 53 percent, 57 percent, 57.5 percent and 59 percent respectively. Read the rest of this entry »