The feature is similar to one off the coast of Japan, which caused the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, killing 20,000 people and causing meltdowns in three nuclear reactors, according to the study published in Nature Geoscience. The feature is found ... ( read original story ...)
The Japanese Vending Machine: A Picturesque Chronicle by Eiji Ohashi
It seems like a trivial fact, but the machine symbolizes more. Roadside Lights © Eiji Ohashi When the Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011 hit the shores of Japan, one of the first items that were listed 'wasteful' were vending machines, and they were the ... ( read original story ...)
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After a catastrophic earthquake sinks most of Japan into the ocean, high school student Ganta Igarashi’s life gets even worse when he’s framed for the murder of his entire class and sentenced to Deadman Wonderland, a bizarre prison slash theme park. ( read original story ...)
Junichiro Tanizaki: Speaking to the light from the shadows
In Tanizaki’s case, following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 he had actually moved from Tokyo to Kyoto, where he immersed himself in traditional Japanese culture. Tanizaki deliberately set up his ideas on Japanese aesthetics in contrast to those of ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Scientists have now invented non drip ice cream
Researchers had reportedly asked a pastry chef to create a dessert using polyphenol liquid, extracted from strawberries, in an effort to help out strawberry farmers whose crops were suffering after the earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan in 2011. ( read original story ...)
MLS gaining respectability, soccer league ‘on a good path’
It's ahead of France's Ligue 1 (21,029), Japan's J1 League (19,107 ... but I think it's on a good path." Fox, the Earthquakes president who was previously CEO of English Aston Villa, said MLS is starting to play at a level hardcore soccer fans are ... ( read original story ...)
Zen monk Seigaku: A life with less can be so much more
Japanese monk Seigaku lives a Zen life with as little money ... Buddhist Study that would grant him ¥1 million for one year. But then the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in Fukushima occurred and he changed his destination. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s hotel room crunch might be a glut
And most of the rooms that will be added over the next few years are expected to be in business hotels. Japan's APA Group, for example, plans to open 47 hotels with a combined 14,500 rooms through 2020. In Tokyo, many hotels are suffering stagnant ... ( read original story ...)
Umbilical: Linking friends with fine food and wine
Tokyo is a tough place to open any business, especially your first restaurant. Along with kitchen skills and front-of-house nous, you need the right location, good connections and a strong underlying raison d’etre. A catchy name and some funky background ... ( read original story ...)
Deep learning startup Preferred Networks raises $95M from Toyota for self-driving tech
Tokyo-based Preferred Networks (PFN), the Japanese startup ... technologies in autonomous driving and other mobility business fields. Since its launch back in March of 2014, PFN has been proposing Edge Heavy Computing, the distributed data processing ... ( read original story ...)
Toyota, Mazda plant in U.S. may bring 4,000 jobs
Toyoda denied that Trump’s views influenced his decision. “We have been reviewing the best production strategy for our business,” he told reporters at a Tokyo hotel, after shaking hands with Mazda President Masamichi Kogai. Trump welcomed the announc ... ( read original story ...)
George Tokoro: ‘An unreliable vintage car will teach you patience’
Tokoro is giving The Japan Times a tour of his expansive Setagaya Base compound, a massive man cave nestled in the prestigious Seijo neighborhood among some of Tokyo’s most prestigious homes, including his own. A creative way to mix business and pleasure ... ( read original story ...)
Canon Electronics-led team hopes to develop low-cost rocket
TOKYO -- Canon Electronics is leading a venture that will work ... The three other parties will have stakes of 10%. The business is not expected to get underway until at least the end of fiscal 2017. When it does begin operating, it will try to meet ... ( read original story ...)
GREE INC NPV (NASDAQ:GREZF) has been downgraded to Hold in a report by Zacks Investment Research today.
In addition, the company invests Internet business related technology services companies. GREE, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Receive News & Ratings Via Email - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily ... ( read original story ...)
From Privilege to Ragpicker: The Life of Servant of God Satoko Kitahara
It was during this time of reflection that she traveled from Tokyo to Yokohama to see a friend and literally chanced upon Sacred Heart Church. In the left transept stood a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. There was nothing special about it. In fact ... ( read original story ...)
Amsterdam shines as financial groups seek EU access
MarketAxess and Tradeweb, two of the world’s largest fixed income trading venues, have been joined by MUFG, the Japanese bank, and possibly Royal Bank of Scotland’s NatWest Markets division. They may not be the last. Senior executives are going public ... ( read original story ...)