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Japan: Our car is not well suited to this circuit

The Honda Racing F1 Team began the on-track preparations for its home Grand Prix at the Fuji Speedway in Japan today with race drivers Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button completing 143 laps of the 4.563km (2.835-mile) circuit. After the persistent rain of last year's Japanese Grand Prix, the team was pleased to achieve some valuable dry running under sunny skies.

Japan: Complete practice times

The first day of running in Fuji has finished as the teams prepare for the Japanese Grand Prix. Honda Racing F1's Jenson Button propped up the time sheet, two seconds behind leader Timo Glock, while Rubens Barrichello ended the day in 15th. However, less than one second separated the top 17 runners, so things don't look too bad. Here's the best times from both sessions...

Japan suffers biggest single-day stock drop for 20 years

Asia's financial crisis deepens as Japan's Nikkei index falls almost 10% and insurance company collapses

Japan: The biggest challenge could be the weather

Formula One heads to Japan for the sixteenth round of the FIA Formula One World Championship, where Bridgestone’s medium and soft compound Potenza tyres, and quite possibly the wet and extreme wet tyres, will tackle the exciting Fuji Speedway. Fuji returned to the calendar last season after an absence of 30 years and extreme weather conditions presented competitors with heavy rain and thick fog.

Japan: Green tyres for Fuji

Formula One will show its support for the FIA’s Make Cars Green campaign by running on specially prepared green-grooved tyres at the Japanese Grand Prix. The initiative demonstrates that Formula One’s teams and partners are backing the Make Cars Green campaign’s goal to reduce the impact of motoring on the environment.

Japan: Fuji Speedway Track Guide

Car set-up at Fuji Speedway is a compromise between straightline speed and slow-corner grip. The need for a high top speed along the circuit’s 1.5km (0.9 mile) pit straight forces the engineers to be mindful of drag level at a track that is otherwise tight and twisty, with an abundance of first and second gear corners.

Japan: Alex Wurz's lap of Fuji

Honda Racing F1's Alex Wurz talks us through a lap of the Fuji Speedway in Japan, a circuit that's gone down well with the current F1 drivers, not least for the stunning views, and the nature of the circuit. "Fuji Speedway is a big challenge for a driver," explains Wurz...

Japan holds interest rate at 0.5%

Japan keeps its key interest rate at 0.5% for the 20th consecutive month - amid continued worries about the global financial crisis.

CEATEC Japan 2008 Robot Photos

CEATEC is the an annual conference where exhibitors show off cutting-edge electronics and information technology. That includes a lot of robots. Pictured above are two of Nissan's BR23C Biomimetic Robots. Akihabara News covered the Nissan demonstration and posted a lot of photos of the robots in action. The bouncingredball blog got photos of the the Murata Seikochan unicycle-riding robot demonstration. And our friends over at Pink Tentacle posted an assortment of interesting CEATEC robot photos. Want to see more of CEATEC 2008? Try the steadily increasing steam of CEATEC photos on flickr.

[My Japan] - 1. Itsukushima Torii

Torii Gate of Itsukushima Jinjia (Itsukushima Shrine) located on Itsukushima Island (popularly...