Tokyo is a tough place to open any business, especially your first restaurant. Along with kitchen skills and front-of-house nous, you need the right location, good connections and a strong underlying raison d’etre. A catchy name and some funky background ... ( read original story ...)
Deep learning startup Preferred Networks raises $95M from Toyota for self-driving tech
Tokyo-based Preferred Networks (PFN), the Japanese startup ... technologies in autonomous driving and other mobility business fields. Since its launch back in March of 2014, PFN has been proposing Edge Heavy Computing, the distributed data processing ... ( read original story ...)
Toyota, Mazda plant in U.S. may bring 4,000 jobs
Toyoda denied that Trump’s views influenced his decision. “We have been reviewing the best production strategy for our business,” he told reporters at a Tokyo hotel, after shaking hands with Mazda President Masamichi Kogai. Trump welcomed the announc ... ( read original story ...)
George Tokoro: ‘An unreliable vintage car will teach you patience’
Tokoro is giving The Japan Times a tour of his expansive Setagaya Base compound, a massive man cave nestled in the prestigious Seijo neighborhood among some of Tokyo’s most prestigious homes, including his own. A creative way to mix business and pleasure ... ( read original story ...)
Canon Electronics-led team hopes to develop low-cost rocket
TOKYO -- Canon Electronics is leading a venture that will work ... The three other parties will have stakes of 10%. The business is not expected to get underway until at least the end of fiscal 2017. When it does begin operating, it will try to meet ... ( read original story ...)
GREE INC NPV (NASDAQ:GREZF) has been downgraded to Hold in a report by Zacks Investment Research today.
In addition, the company invests Internet business related technology services companies. GREE, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Receive News & Ratings Via Email - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily ... ( read original story ...)
Panda-themed Adventure World express debuts in Osaka
OSAKA – A Kuroshio limited express train led by a car with a panda face debuted Saturday in Osaka to lure tourists to Adventure World, the giant wildlife theme park in Wakayama Prefecture where the popular animals are on show. “I’m about to board the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Glico tripling ice cream production in Thailand
OSAKA -- Japanese snack maker Ezaki Glico plans to triple ice cream output in Thailand to between 2 billion yen and 3 billion yen ($18 million and $27 million) worth of the sweet stuff by 2020. The Osaka-based confectioner at its own expense recently ... ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Shingu in Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Shingu in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 135.9047 East, latitude 33.251 North, depth = 437.31 km. Event id: us2000a3ly. Ids that are associated to the ... ( read original story ...)
Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Iwo Jima in Japan
A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 227 km WNW of Iwo Jima, Japan (141 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.85 km (10 miles). Exact location, longitude 139.3385° East, latitude 25.7423° North, depth = 15.85 km. ( read original story ...)
How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in ‘The Great Quake’
Plafker had laid out the dynamics of what is today called the “megathrust” earthquake, the type that decimated parts of Japan in 2011 and now imperils the Pacific Northwest. He’d also cemented acceptance of plate tectonics, the idea the Earth is ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Discovers How to Keep Popsicles From Melting
But this summer in Japan, people are enjoying better living through chemistry ... which is still recovering from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The pastry chef charged with using strawberry polyphenol in confections complained that it made dairy cream ... ( read original story ...)
Scientists Discover New Fault Line Off The Coast Of Alaska – Could Produce Fukushima Size Tsunamis
The feature closely resembles one that produced the 2011 Tohoku tsunami off Japan, killing some 20,000 people and melting ... is capable of causing a 9.0 earthquake that would undoubtedly spawn a massive tsunami. The scientific community was completely ... ( read original story ...)
Slowly, U.S. growth has the world’s attention
First-year San Jose Earthquakes president Tom Fox said ownership groups ... It is ahead of France’s Ligue 1 (21,029), Japan’s J1 League (19,107) and Brazil’s Série A (16,286). In a market where American football is king, stadiums can be the ... ( read original story ...)
Preparing Alaska’s Communities for a Tsunami
After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake quake in Japan, a wave hit Santa Cruz, California. Afterward people came back to the harbor, but hours later water surged into the harbor again, causing an estimated $10 million in damage to the infrastructure at Santa Cruz ... ( read original story ...)
New results from T2K conclusively show muon neutrinos transform to electron neutrinos
This discovery was made possible with the unyielding and tireless effort by the J-PARC staff members and the management to deliver high quality beam to T2K after the devastating March 2011 earthquake in eastern Japan which caused severe damage to the ... ( read original story ...)