This week, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai will lead a nonpartisan group of Diet lawmakers to Osaka to hear out senior business leaders and discuss how best to challenge the Paris bid. While Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui remains ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics: Tokyo 2020 living with spectre of killer quake
But spare a thought for Tokyo 2020 organisers, who face the added risk of a devastating earthquake or tsunami. Japan is already stepping up efforts to reassure top athletes and hundreds of thousands of visitors when they flock to Tokyo for the Games ... ( read original story ...)
5.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan
An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook the Fukushima Prefecture and northeast Japan on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Tokyo: An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook the Fukushima Prefecture and northeast ... ( read original story ...)
Quake Hits Off Japan’s Fukushima, No Damage Or Tsunami Risk Reported
Tokyo, Japan: A moderately strong earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's Fukushima on Thursday but no fresh damage to the crippled nuclear power plant there was reported and there was no risk of a tsunami, officials said. The 5.8-magnitude quake hit at ... ( read original story ...)
Quake measuring 5.8 magnitude hits off Japan’s Fukushima, no damage or tsunami
A moderately strong earthquake struck off the coast of Japan’s Fukushima on Thursday but no fresh damage to the crippled nuclear power plant there was reported and there was no risk of a tsunami, officials said. The 5.8-magnitude quake hit at 9:11 ... ( read original story ...)
Hasegawa Hotel & Resort: Y’s Cabin Osaka Namba Grand Opening Set for Wednesday, August 9!
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Y’s Cabin Osaka Namba, a new 162-room cabin hotel constructed by Hasegawa Hotel & Resort Co., Ltd. (Toshima-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Natsuki Abe) in Dotonbori, Chuo-ku, Osaka (one-minute walk from Namba St., Midosuji ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake in northeastern Japan, no tsunami warning – JMA
TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 hit northeastern Japan on Thursday, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued after the 9:11 a.m. (0011 GMT) quake ... ( read original story ...)
Japan earthquake – northern Japan & Tokyo
Japan's public broadcaster with the news (NHK) Northern Japan quake, felt in Tokyo There has been no tsunami alert issued, said to be no tsunami threat Magnitude 5.6 quake says NHK, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says magnitude 5.8, hit Honshu (Japan's ... ( read original story ...)
Curbing Japan’s illicit teen dating services ‘a cat-and-mouse game,’ police say
Naniwa de Sanpo, the shop in Osaka, advertises “tourist information on high school girls.” The Osaka Prefectural Police arrested a former business manager and others connected to the shop in May and June for allegedly providing sexual services. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo airport police find 30 bullets in US plane crew’s bag
TOKYO — Japanese airport police have found 30 bullets in an American Airlines crewmember’s carry-on bag and say the flight attendant apparently carried them through his security checks at U.S. airports. Police at Tokyo’s Narita airport seized the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan business mood steady at high levels as economy recovers: Reuters Tankan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturers' and service providers' business confidence held steady at high levels in July, a Reuters poll found on Wednesday, underlining the central bank's upbeat view on the economy. Manufacturers' sentiment stood at a ... ( read original story ...)
Western Digital CEO meeting Japan officials over Toshiba: sources
aiming to resolve a dispute with Toshiba Corp over the Japanese company's planned sale of its chip business, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Toshiba is scrambling to sell its flash memory unit to cover losses from its bankrupt U.S ... ( read original story ...)
Private shops offer unused spaces for tourists’ luggage
According to West Japan Railway Co., JR Osaka Station has 650 lockers large enough to keep ... a senior researcher at the Japan Research Institute. “The business will continue to expand.” ( read original story ...)
House panel backs earthquake early warning system, defying Trump’s plan to kill it
The text of an earthquake early warning, received on an iPhone in Tokyo in 2014. The Japanese text says: "This is an earthquake early warning. An earthquake occurred off the Fukushima coast, prepare for strong tremors." Shaking arrived after the alert ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea earthquake: Fears Kim Jong-Un sparked 5.8 magnitude tremor with nuclear test
The 5.8 magnitude earthquake in the Sea of Japan on Thursday was extremely rare, experts said. It had initially been marked as 6.0 but was later downgraded. Geologists said it struck very deep early in the morning, 334.1 miles below the seabed, and is ... ( read original story ...)
Christchurch woman finds same sense of community while teaching in disaster-stricken Namie, Japan
we finally got electricity back in South New Brighton and shortly after there was the news about the Tohoku tsunami and earthquake." News of Tohoku resonated with Vivian-Neal, who has familial roots in Okinawa, an island to the far south of Japan. ( read original story ...)