The most valuable instrument among the 54 casualties is an Italian-made violin worth 50m yen, the Kyodo news agency said. According to Japanese media, the woman is a Chinese national and was arrested on Tuesday upon returning from China to Tokyo. ( read original story ...)
Nestle to open Japan factory for exotic Kit Kat demand
These are external links and will open in a new window Nestle is to open its first factory in Japan in more than 25 years because of demand for exotic flavours of Kit Kat. While traditionally the wafer snack has been made using milk chocolate, dozens of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan opens its doors to property start-ups
The number of foreigners working in Japan topped one million for the first time this year, but official data showed that nearly 40 per cent of foreign residents who sought housing in the last five years were turned down at least once as they are not Japanese. ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Miyako in Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 127 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (79 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.2685 East, latitude 40.1816 North, depth = 34.49 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.49 km (21 miles). ( read original story ...)
How earthquake scientists eavesdrop on North Korea’s nuclear blasts
From South Korea to Russia to Japan, geophysical instruments recorded squiggles as seismic waves passed through and shook the ground. It looked as if an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 had just happened. But the ground shaking had originated at North ... ( read original story ...)
Google adds SOS Alerts to search results, maps
Japan, Philippines, Australia and Canada. Google's Public Alerts complement SOS Alerts by helping the local and public authorities communicate emergency messages specifically related to official weather, public safety and earthquake alerts. According to ... ( read original story ...)
Koenji: A Guide To Tokyo’s Retro Hub
Initially a sleepy farming settlement on the Ome-kaido Highway, Koenji saw an influx of small merchants and laborers displaced from downtown Tokyo by the destruction caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake ... when the Japanese PSE law went into effect ... ( read original story ...)
Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, Longevity Expert, Dies at (or Lives to) 105
He was taken hostage in 1970 when Japanese Red Army terrorists hijacked a commercial ... equipped his hospital the year before to handle mass casualties like an earthquake. He also wrote a musical for children when he was 88 and a best-selling book when ... ( read original story ...)
Melted Nuclear Fuel Found Below Fukushima by Underwater Robot
Recently, however, the Japanese have built a small underwater robot ... questions about what happened to Reactor #3’s fuel supply in the hours following the earthquake and tsunami that struck the plant on March 11, 2011. Previous attempts to see into ... ( read original story ...)
Matsuya Kanda – 130+ year old soba shop in Tokyo
Matsuya Kanda resides in a traditional Japanese building designed in the Taisho architectural style. A great earthquake destroyed the original building, so a new one was built in 1924 and has survived to this day. The interior is timeless, consisting of ... ( read original story ...)
Leonardo Inaugurates its New Airborne Systems Facility in L’Aquila, Making the Abruzzo Region A Hub for Leonardo’s High-tech Production
Built to high standards that include earthquake resistant construction ... having secured significant contracts in countries including Italy, the UK, Sweden and Japan. Market prospects are strong, as by 2020 all NATO nations will be required to upgrade ... ( read original story ...)
Why not give the BOJ’s governor a promotion?
At the Ministry of Finance, where Kuroda served in the 1990s and early 2000s ... BOJ is keep things on autopilot as a more intellectually curious man restructures Japan Inc. Sound crazy? Let’s review Japan’s last 20 years, starting with Kuroda ... ( read original story ...)
Clock ticking on 2020 Games as Tokyo marks 3 years until start
Japan marks three years to go until Tokyo 2020 Olympics Japan also observed a national exercise to encourage tens of thousands of commuters to work from home, in a bid to ease rail and road congestion before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and reform the country's ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo futures fall on position adjustments
TOKYO, July 26 (Reuters) - Benchmark TOCOM rubber futures fell in thin trade on Wednesday, despite an overnight rally in oil prices, as investors were adjusting their positions after the new January contract started trading earlier in the session ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo RPG Factory’s Lost Sphear Launching January 2018
Last month at the E3 in Los Angeles, Tokyo RPG Factory gave fans an early taste of the ... Liability Company has invested 0.05% in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). The business had revenue of $7.89 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts ... ( read original story ...)
Hitachi teams up with CleanMax to harness India’s rooftop solar power for Japanese firms
Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., which teamed up with India’s leading rooftop solar solution provider CleanMax Solar in May to tap emerging business opportunities ... at Hitachi High-Technologies, based in Tokyo. “Our plan is to achieve a 50-megawatt ... ( read original story ...)