This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Cranes are large birds with long legs and necks. In Japan and other East Asian cultures, they represent luck and long life. Japanese tradition says a person who folds one thousand paper cranes gets th...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Japan's nuclear crisis may mean greater demand for imported food and less competition from Japanese products on world markets. But it also means that...
Experts and diplomats are predicting Japan's recent deadly earthquake and tsunami, along with its ongoing nuclear reactor crisis, will not have too much of an effect on Japan itself in the long-term, but rather on energy policies in other countries....
Japan raised the severity of the Fukushima nuclear crisis from four to five on a seven-point scale of international nuclear events. Fears of radiation exposure has caused a run on salt products all across the region, including in China, where shopper...
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh. Japans Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes la...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语时事新闻节目。 A huge earthquake and tsunami destroyed a large part of northeastern Japan last week. Survivors and rescue workers stopped for one minute on Friday to...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 The crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has raised questions about the future of the nuclear energy industry. Arjun Makhijani is...
Quake, Tsunami May Only Add to Economic Struggles for Japan日本发生强烈地震，经济前景雪上蒙霜 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道节目。 The earthquake that shook Japan with his...
Widespread tsunami warnings were issued Friday, after an earthquake off the coast of Japan unleashed waves that posed threats throughout the Pacific.? One tsunami researcher said that while the tsunami warning system worked well, it remains difficult...
TOKYO, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Japan's core machinery(机械) orders rose 4.2 percent in January from the previous month, marking the second rise in five months, the Cabinet Office said in a report on Wednesday. According to the government data, orders i...
