Looking back on the last 20 years, we have expanded our business by building multiple sites in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. In 2002, we built our first site in Osaka for the purpose of distributing the heavy traffic load from Tokyo metropolitan area to Kansai ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes off Japan’s Okinawa: USGS
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck off Japan's island of Okinawa on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the quake, which hit at a depth of 33 km (21 miles ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes off Japan – Yahoo7
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 has struck off Japan's island of Okinawa, the US Geological Survey says. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the quake, which hit at a depth of 33km about 267km east of Okinawa. A baby in Canada is ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes off Japan
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 has struck off Japan's island of Okinawa, the US Geological Survey says. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the quake, which hit at a depth of 33km about 267km east of Okinawa. ( read original story ...)
Excitement builds for Japan’s Wagyu Olympics
Japan’s top cattle and meat producers are gearing up to ... this year for the first time since much of its eastern area was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011. This year, Miyagi was chosen from among Tohoku’s six prefectures because ... ( read original story ...)
Minimal compliance on quake standard – engineer
Fewer than 34 multi-storey New Zealand buildings have fully complied with earthquake restraints standards since they ... Concert Hall that was damaged in the 2011 Fukushima quake in Japan, where the destroyed ceiling and ruptured sprinkler system led ... ( read original story ...)
Prospect of higher electricity rates to turn away foreign firms
... in search of stable electricity supply at lower rates since Japan stopped all nuclear power plants following the meltdown at Fukushima reactors in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Japanese firms’ investments in Korea ... ( read original story ...)
Sake makers tout locally sourced rice to entice terroir-obsessed wine enthusiasts
The program is intended to help revitalize a region hit hard by the record earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. Domestic consumption of rice and sake has been declining as Japan’s population ages and the ... ( read original story ...)
Ministry pushes farmers to attain certification to supply food for Tokyo Olympics
In Japan, about 4,500 farmers and farming organizations have ... where triple reactor meltdowns occurred due to damage from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In May this year, Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori declared that Fukushima aims to rank top ... ( read original story ...)
Traffic deaths are surging in Japan because of all the seniors behind the wheel
As people age, they tend to lose sharpness when it comes to reaction time, spatial awareness, and vision. In Japan, where the elderly population has been swelling for the past two decades, that shift has led to an alarming trend on the road. Recent data ... ( 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 ...)