IOC president Thomas Bach is holding talks with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike in the city Tokyo 2020 Olympic events could be held in part of Japan hit by the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in a bid to cut costs. Rowing canoe/kayak ... ( read original story ...)
Nankai Trough: Japanese Government allocates $190 million to monitor seabed to predict earthquakes
Japanese folklore tells us that if you watch catfish in a pond, they will swim erratically right before an earthquake. It might be as good an indicator as anything else. Earthquake scientists across the globe have long been at odds about whether or not ... ( read original story ...)
Japan, Taiwan and New Zealand collaborate on seismic hazard models
In Japan, Taiwan and New Zealand, one of the largest driving forces behind earthquakes is the active convergence of tectonic plates at rates of four to eight centimeters per year. The plate boundaries in each region are complex throughout the length of ... ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Katsuura in Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 161 km ESE of Katsuura, Japan (100 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, 141.8436° East, 34.4322° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has ... ( read original story ...)
Sompo Japan to refine quake insurance premiums
TOKYO -- Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance will tailor corporate earthquake premiums to 948 areas nationally instead of to entire prefectures, a revision that likely will raise rates in tsunami-prone coastal sections and reduce premiums for inland regions. ( read original story ...)
Is B.C.'s government ready for an earthquake?
that you get in Japan," she said. She said despite provincial measures, survivors are going to have be to be responsible for taking care of themselves in the first days following the earthquake, as help may not be able to get to them depending on the damage. ( read original story ...)
Resilience in Japan: Reflections from Onagawa
On the 11 th March 2011 at 14:46 JST, an earthquake struck Japan off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, in Northern Honshu, triggering a massive tsunami and the now-famous meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The earthquake, known as Higashi Nihon ... ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Katsuura in Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 129 km ESE of Katsuura, Japan (80 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/09/16 / 2016-09-23 07:31:57 / September 23, 2016 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 141.5325° East ... ( read original story ...)
Capsule hotels in Japan reach out to foreign tourists
New Japan Kanko Co, which claims to have inaugurated the first ... "But we need to attract younger people as new guests to continue our business." First Cabin Inc has designed its rooms along the line of the first class cabin of a passenger airline ... ( read original story ...)
Brazilian President seeks foreign investment, access to Japan’s markets
TOKYO Brazilian President Michel Temer told a top Japanese business lobby in Tokyo on Wednesday he would like to open up Brazil's markets and promote international investment there. Temer, making the first visit to Japan by a Brazilian head of state in 11 ...http://japanbizz.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=38&action=trash&_wpnonce=3778aa113e ( read original story ...)
Japan investors in dilemma over US bonds as hedging costs bite
Japanese investors may soon be forced out of their U.S. debt investments as currency hedging costs soar on the prospect of higher interest rates and tougher U.S. money market regulations. With returns on U.S. Treasuries falling to around zero percent after ... ( read original story ...)
Business tops Abe’s talks with Brazil’s Temer
Earlier Wednesday, Temer also met with officials from Keidanren, otherwise known as the Japan Business Federation, a powerful Japanese business lobby, to seek investments. Brazil’s once rapidly-growing economy took a hit amid slowing in other emerging ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japan has the best navy in Asia
Writing for The National Interest, Kyle Mizokami recently made a solid case for Japan's Maritime Self Defense Force (MSDF) as the best navy in all of Asia. While China fields a larger, ever modernizing navy with huge stores of cruise missiles and land ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Watanabe elected president of gymnastics federation
Watanabe becomes the first Asian to head FIG and is the first Japanese president of an Olympic international federation since Ichiro Ogimura headed the International Table Tennis Federation from 1987-1994. Watanabe is a sports business management professional. ( read original story ...)
Australia and Japan jointly targeting ASEAN countries
The sustained economic growth in south-east Asia is becoming a new focus for companies involved in Australia's oldest business relationship in Asia with Japan. Potential co-operation between Japanese and Australian companies in south-east Asia was a key ... ( read original story ...)
International forum on sports, art and business kicks off in Kyoto, Tokyo
An international conference on sports, arts and business kicks off in Japan on Wednesday as part of the government’s efforts to create momentum leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and beyond. The World Forum on Sport and Culture, hosted by the Ministry ... ( read original story ...)