London: Saori Yoshida of Japan won the 55-kilogram freestyle wrestling title Thursday, joining teammate Kaori Icho as the only female wrestlers with three Olympic gold medals. Yoshida beat Beijing Games bronze medalist Tonya Verbeek of Canada 3-0, 2-0. Her 12th world-level championship gave Japan three of the four golds awarded in women's wrestling at the London Games. Icho won her third Olympic gold medal on Wednesday and Japan's Hitomi Obara...
12:34 AM, Aug 10, 2012
London: Kaori Icho's cold, tense stare never broke as she wiped out opponent after helpless opponent. It was only when Icho sealed her third straight Olympic gold medal that she showed just how relieved she was to have done it again. Icho won the women's 63-kilogram freestyle division on Wednesday at the London Games, becoming the first Japanese woman to capture the same event in three straight Olympics. Icho beat...
02:58 AM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Hitomi Obara of Japan won her first Olympic gold medal in women's 48-kilogram freestyle wrestling on Wednesday, rallying to beat Mariya Stadnyk of Azerbaijan 0-4, 1-0, 2-0. Obara has won six world titles at 51 kilograms, a non-Olympic weight, and took the last two world titles at 48 kilograms. Stadnyk, the bronze medalist in Beijing, also lost to Obara in the 2011 world championship final. Carol Huynh of Canada...
11:58 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Bangalore: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which has financed the IV Phase works of the Cauvery Second Stage drinking water project for Bangalore city, has shown inclination to support BWSSBs plan to provide water to 110 villages which have been merged with the BBMP some years ago. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development and BWSSB Minister S Suresh Kumar said that JICA has assured...
03:41 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Tokyo: Hiroshima marked the 67th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack on Monday with a call for the elimination of nuclear arsenals. About 50,000 people gathered in Hiroshima's peace park near the epicentre of the 1945 blast that destroyed most of the city and killed as many as 140,000 people. A second atomic bombing on August 9 that year in Nagasaki killed tens of thousands more and prompted...
08:40 AM, Aug 06, 2012
London: When there's gold to be had, don't ever doubt the Chinese. When it comes to silver and bronze, it can get tricky. It did at men's gymnastics on Monday. The Chinese won their second straight Olympic title and third in four games, making anyone who wrote them off after a dismal performance in qualifying look silly. Their score of 275.997 points was more than four points better than Japan,...
12:46 AM, Jul 31, 2012
London: South Korea won the Olympic gold medal in women's team archery on Sunday for the seventh straight time. Ki Bo-bae, Lee Sung-jin and Choi Hyeon-ju hugged and pumped their arms in the air after their 210-209 victory of silver medalist China. Japan took bronze for its first ever medal in women's archery. The American team, which finished second in the ranking round on Friday, fell 218-213 to the Chinese...
11:38 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: In the men's 60-kilogram division, Russian Arsen Galstyan surprised spectators and opponents alike when he took the gold. Galstyan defeated the category's two favorites to win the medal: top-ranked Uzbeki fighter Rishod Sobirov in the semi-final, and Japanese judoka Hiroaki Hiroaka in the final. It took less than a minute for Galstyan, 23, to score a match-ending ippon over Hiroaka. It was the first Olympic medal for the Russian,...
09:59 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Fresh life is being pumped into the much-delayed work of establishing a distribution system for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-assisted water supply scheme in Thiruvananthapuram, and if things go as planned, the entire project should be over here by December this year. The technical bid of a prospective new contractor for the distribution system work was cleared on Tuesday. The financial bid will be opened next week, a...
01:31 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Chef Achal Aggarwal at MEGU, opening for lunch from 1st August, shows how you can have a sensational Japanese meal which is 100 per cent vegetarian. ...
12:33 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Tokyo: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday invited Japanese companies to invest in Gujarat's textile sector. Speaking at a round table conference of Japan's top 16 finance and banking companies in Osaka, Modi - who is on a visit to the country to woo investors - said that his state's textile and the textile park policy is based on 5 'F' formula of Farm-Fibre-Fabric-Fashion-Foreign. During his address at another...
08:13 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Tokyo: As he pitches for greater investment from Japan, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a meeting with Suzuki Motors Chairman Osamu Suzuki, and discussed investment opportunities in the state. Modi took a bullet train from Tokyo to Hamamatsu, where Suzuki is headquartered, and visited its plant where he met Indian engineers working for the Japanese auto major. During a meeting, the two discussed investment opportunities and Suzuki...
08:20 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Though the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games will be on July 27 in London, there will be plenty of sporting action taking place 48 hours before with the fifth edition of the Women's Olympic Football Tournament kick-starting on Wednesday in Wales. The highlight of the day will be USA vs France at Glasgow's Hampden Park, two teams seen as gold-medal favourites. USA are the defending champions smarting from...
12:53 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday left on a four-day official tour of Japan to meet its Deputy Prime Minister and top industry officials there. "Leaving for a four-day visit to Japan. Looking forward to visiting the land of the rising sun," Modi said on Twitter. The Gujarat Chief Minister is scheduled to meet Japan's Deputy Prime Minister and top trade and industry officials. Setting up of the...
07:54 PM, Jul 22, 2012
Siddharth Nagar: A member of the Japanese House of Representatives on Saturday said Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) would help in development works in Uttar Pradesh. "ODA, Japan, will be helping the state in development. Japan is a geographically small country with population less than that of Uttar Pradesh, yet it stood at second place in the world in education and technology," Naokazu Takemoto said. Takemoto was in the district...
02:38 AM, Jul 15, 2012
Kabul: The Obama administration on Saturday declared Afghanistan the United States' newest "major non-NATO ally," an action designed to facilitate close defence cooperation after US combat troops withdraw from the country in 2014 and as a political statement of support for Afghanistan's long-term stability. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who arrived in Kabul on an unannounced visit to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, disclosed the alliance to diplomats...
09:44 AM, Jul 07, 2012
The Tananka family from Japan is hoping of a good show in gymnastics at the upcoming Olympics. ...
08:41 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Tokyo: Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years. Damage from the huge March 11, 2011, earthquake, and not just the ensuing tsunami, could not be ruled out as a cause of the accident, the panel added, a finding that could...
05:43 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Tokyo: Japanese political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa, one of the key figures behind the ruling party's rise to power, led dozens of lawmakers out of the party on Monday, but the government will retain its majority in the powerful lower house of parliament. Indeed, the departure of Ozawa, 70, and his followers could put Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in a better position to consolidate control on his fractious party and cut...
12:31 PM, Jul 02, 2012
