Sumitomo Chemical already holds a roughly 1% interest in Bonac, but the new investment will make it the second-largest shareholder after Hayashi Kasei, the startup's Osaka-based parent. Sumitomo Chemical is looking to gain board representation and send ... ( read original story ...)
NEPA’s Most Wanted Fugitives, 9-24/2017
Wanted for: Theft of movable property, criminal conspiracy with multiple criminal ... Wanted for: Theft of a backpack from Osaka restaurant in downtown Scranton. Description: White man, 37 years old. Contact: Scranton police detectives, 570-348-4139. ( read original story ...)
Hot Property: Portillo’s Hot Dogs in Apple Valley
Pizza Hut and Osaka Seafood Steakhouse. Launch is seeking to change the Ryan property's zoning and to gain site plan approvals for the project. The requests went before the city's planning commission in August but were tabled because of some unaddressed ... ( read original story ...)
Wozniacki eyes top after retaining Tokyo title
TOKYO: Defending champion Caroline Wozniacki romped to a 6-0 ... flat and didn't have enough energy and Caroline was playing amazing tennis." Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news app for ... ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 47 km ENE of Kashima-shi, Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Kashima-shi in Japan on Monday. Exact location, longitude 141.127° East, latitude 36.1358° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a ... ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Oyama in Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 181 km SSW of Oyama, Japan (112 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 05:45:51 / 5:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/17 / 2017-09-24 20:45:51 / September 24 ... ( read original story ...)
Death toll from earthquake in Mexico rises to 319
A Japanese search-and-rescue team cradled the white dog as they carried it down from the debris in footage broadcast on Milenio TV. A girl sits in a tent with two dogs in a school turned shelter, for people whose homes were damaged in an earthquake ... ( read original story ...)
352-Event Earthquake Storm Hit Southern California Last Week
Elevated earthquake activity seemed spread across the Pacific coasts, with big quakes recorded in New Zealand, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan — and lots of after-shocks in Mexico. A 3.4 magnitude quake in North Korea, while the U.S. Air Force was buzzing ... ( read original story ...)
3.4 ‘earthquake’ hits North Korea
All of North Korea's previous six nuclear tests registered as earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 or above ... Pyongyang threatened to "sink" Japan into the sea and claimed it wanted military "equilibrium" with the United States. "The quake is small enough ... ( read original story ...)
Seoul says natural 3-magnitude North Korea earthquake detected
Imports of textiles from North Korea would also be banned immediately, the statement said. Mr Wang told Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono on the sidelines of a United Nations meeting in NY that the situation on the Korean peninsula was getting increasingly ... ( read original story ...)
Why the Mexico City Earthquake Shook Up Disaster Predictions
(For example, Japanese earthquake records go back to the year A.D. 1000, but only in highly populated areas.) The second is he and other seismologists, notably David Jackson at the University of California, Los Angeles, have argued that the Guerrero Gap ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s ruling party far ahead of opposition as election nears
TOKYO -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is supported by just 44% of voters as the country heads toward a lower house election expected late next month, but the opposition trails far behind, according to a Nikkei/TV Tokyo survey conducted Friday ... ( read original story ...)
Nearly 20% of Japan’s quake recovery funds still sit idle
TOKYO -- Almost $5 billion in funds earmarked for rebuilding Japan's disaster-stricken northeast remain unused, with projects entangled in local debates and nuts-and-bolts complications, a Nikkei study has found. The Nikkei compiled government survey data ... ( read original story ...)
Wozniacki whips Pavlyuchenkova to retain Tokyo title
TOKYO: Caroline Wozniacki ended her string of final failures ... until the final game when Wozniacki converted a break point for the victory. Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news app for ... ( read original story ...)
New service in Japan helps tourists lose the luggage
TOKYO -- Foreign travelers trailing large suitcases at tourist spots are a familiar sight in Japan, but they could ease up if a planned joint new service by JTB, Panasonic and Yamato Holdings takes off. The January launch of the Luggage-Free Travel service ... ( read original story ...)
Can Japan claw back the ¥1.4 trillion it sent to North Korea?
It managed to avoid that fate when a small property firm in Japan called Green Forest acquired the site after allegedly receiving a large transfer of funds – around ¥1 billion (HK$63.97 million) – from Hong Kong-based Dongnam Shipping Agency. ( read original story ...)