Japan

It’s that time of the year when no-talent writers of all stripes pull out the insidiously mundane columns about “what’s under the Christmas Tree” left by Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Santa or just plain old St. Nick. If it’s not that then “The stocking were hung by the chimney with care.” If those two approaches failed then it would be the phony New Year’s resolutions always the bastion of the non-creative mind. Not here mate. All Thai’s received an early holiday gift when Tiger Woods proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he qualifies as your typical Thai male.

The Japan government will donate 3,070,000 baht to Pai Hospital under the Grand Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects Scheme (GPP) to help fund the ‘Improving Medical Services’ project.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. After six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.

Trailer of Japanese movie "Robogeisha"

Japan’s three largest banks will tell Citigroup Inc. this week whether they want to bid for company’s Tokyo-based brokerage unit, local media reported Wednesday.