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VX GAS

BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 22, 2013
Japan, Canada close to deal on shale gas export boost
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper are expected to agree to increase Canadian shale gas exports to Japan from around 2020, Japanese officials said Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 10, 2013
Global LNG client group eyed to cut import costs
Japan, the world's biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, plans to form an international consumer group to study ways of reducing import costs.
WORLD
Aug 22, 2013
Disrupting muscle function, nerve agents can kill fast even in tiny doses
The descriptions of victims arriving at clinics near Damascus on Wednesday point to possible signs of poisoning by a nerve agent, the most deadly of the seven types of chemical weapons recognized by experts.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2013
China's unilateral gas field pursuit draws protest
Japan will not accept China's unilateral tapping of gas fields in the East China Sea, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday, after media reported that Chinese state-run oil companies plan to drill into seven new gas fields in the sea at the heart of heightened tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2013
Attack on first-graders puts kids' safety in spotlight
The knife attack last week by a man on three first-grade boys near an elementary school in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, has once again raised the question of how to keep children safe.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 3, 2013
Japan protests China's plan to tap seabed gas near contested waters
Japan expressed opposition Wednesday to exploitation by China of a natural gas field that may stretch into the seabed under contested waters in the East China Sea, having received news Beijing is making moves to that end.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2013
University of Tokyo study warns of increased flood risk due to global warming
The unchecked progress of global warming would increase the risk of flooding at the end of this century in 42 percent of the Earth's land surface, mainly in Asia and Africa, according to a study published Sunday by British science journal Nature Climate Change.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 20, 2013
U.S. shale gas alters Japan's energy plans
Japan is hoping LNG from the U.S. shale gas boom will give it the power to rework bruising long-term contracts linked to oil prices.
JAPAN
May 19, 2013
Despite lacking FTA, Japan to get U.S. LNG
The United States will allow exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas to Japan and other countries to which it is not bound by free-trade agreements.
JAPAN
May 19, 2013
18 countries agree in Tokyo to work on enhancing environmental technologies
Representatives of 18 countries agreed Saturday to enhance cooperation between their public and private sectors to expand useful environmental technologies to achieve both economic growth and greenhouse gas reductions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 5, 2013
Motegi seeks quick U.S. approval of LNG exports
Trade minister Toshimitsu Motegi has requested early U.S. approval of liquefied natural gas exports in a meeting with Acting Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman in Washington, saying that securing a relatively cheap energy source is crucial to Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Mar 20, 2013
This is one museum where kids will have a blast
Once a month, it will be my goal to help you and your kids get the most out of Tokyo. This city is full of opportunities to learn and have fun, and I've been seeking out these opportunities ever since my first-born arrived 10 years ago.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 13, 2013
Seabed gas extraction first of its kind: METI
In a reported world first, Japan extracts natural gas from methane hydrate, considered a next-generation energy source, in the Pacific seabed off Aichi Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Mar 5, 2013
Mitsubishi among firms OK'd by Canada to export shale gas
Mitsubishi Corp. and three other companies jointly obtain approval from Canada to export shale gas from western Canada to Japan and other parts of Asia.
EDITORIALS
Jan 19, 2013
Violation of criminal procedure
The Tokyo District Court ruled Tuesday in favor of the religious group Aleph, formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo, in a lawsuit Aleph had filed against the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and a former head of the Metropolitan Police Department.
CULTURE / Books
May 13, 2001
When the nightmare broke through: "Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche"
UNDERGROUND: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, by Haruki Murakami. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel. Random House, Vintage International; 366 pp., $14.
JAPAN
May 22, 1998
J. League contender Tokyo Gas bent on survival
As dwindling attendance figures raise concerns over the future of Japan's only professional soccer league, one local Tokyo team busily preparing to join the new second division of the J. League next year is hoping that careful management will ensure its success.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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