According to the operator, a maintenance train that lays ballast, or small rocks under rail tracks, collided with a halted maintenance train on a section of the line between Toyohashi and Mikawa-Anjo ... ( read original story ...)
What Makes An Olympic Athlete Female? The Rules Have Changed Since Tokyo
The rules for who can compete as a woman in the Olympics have changed—and they differ from sport to sport. Many sports have tightened restrictions for transgender women. ( read original story ...)
What Makes An Olympic Athlete Female? The Rules Have Changed Since Tokyo
The rules for who can compete as a woman in the Olympics have changed—and they differ from sport to sport. Many sports have tightened restrictions for transgender women. ( read original story ...)
SoftBank’s Chief Pitches a New Path for Self-Driving Cars
Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of SoftBank, is trying to rally automakers around the world to join forces on autonomous-driving technologies. ( read original story ...)
Korean Air Launches 787-10 On Tokyo Narita Route, Long-Haul To Follow
Korean Air Launches 787-10 On Tokyo Narita Route, Long-Haul To Follow is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s 35 Million Tourist Bonanza in 2024: Great for Business, Not So Much for Overtourism
The weak yen has definitely boosted Japan's tourism industry, but as the country rides this wave of visitors, it’s going to be a tightrope walk — balancing the economic gains with the realities of ... ( read original story ...)
‘No choice but to go home’: Tokyo-Osaka bullet train halt disrupts tourists’ schedules
who was supposed to return to the Osaka head office of her company by Shinkansen after a business trip in Tokyo, booked a flight departing Haneda Airport shortly past noon instead of waiting for the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan attracts record 3.14 mln June visitors as weak yen draws travellers
Japan set a fresh record for monthly visitors in June, official data showed on Friday, as the weak yen fuelled a tourism boom that is becoming a key driver for the economy. ( read original story ...)
The Japanese way of recycling waste
Resonac and Sekisui are among Japan’s largest chemical companies, and smaller players like CFP Group are also helping create a waste-to-chemical infrastructure. CFP, which got its start in mechanical ... ( read original story ...)
Japan survey on jobs causing stiff shoulders ranks care workers ahead of teachers, nurses
A survey aiming to identify which occupations encounter the most shoulder stiffness has placed caregivers in the top spot with 70% of respond ... ( read original story ...)
IB Geography class: Japan earthquake death toll rises to 55 as military joins relief effort
Evaluate the effectiveness of Japan’s earthquake preparedness and response systems in mitigating the effects of this disaster ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japanese researchers are looking to submarine cables for faster tsunami warnings
While Japan boasts one of the world's most sophisticated earthquake and tsunami detection systems, gaps still remain. ( read original story ...)
20% of Japan firms have no medium-term plans, poll finds
A survey found that about 10% of companies with medium-term plans are considering changing the duration of their plans or making other reviews. ( read original story ...)
Earthquake of magnitude 5.62 strikes Japan’s Hokkaido, GFZ says
An earthquake of magnitude 5.62 struck Japan's Hokkaido on Sunday, GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences) said. ( read original story ...)
Gacha capsule toy business booms in Japan, with sights set abroad
Japan's capsule toy industry has come a long way from the corner of the supermarket, as it enjoys a new boom at home that is spurring ... ( read original story ...)
Festival in Japan town hit by 2011 tsunami features millions of sunflowers
Millions of sunflowers are blooming on farmland in a town on the Japan's northeastern Pacific coast that was hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. ( read original story ...)