Montreal Board of Trade president Michel Leblanc says the flights will provide business opportunities for Quebec companies in artificial intelligence, gaming, clean technology and food. Japan is Quebec’s sixth-largest market that purchased $1.3 billion ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese FM in Mozambique for conference on development
JOHANNESBURG — The foreign ministers of Japan and some African countries are in Mozambique for a development conference that also includes delegates from the private sector and non-governmental groups. The Portuguese news agency Lusa says Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Porn billionaire reinvents himself as Japan’s social-conscious startup guru
Kameyama won’t disclose his profits, but he says there’s enough to fund all the new business without having to take DMM public, unless he tries something huge like building an amusement park based on Japanese anime characters. “Imagine what people ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Tobacco targets smoker-heavy zones
Japan Tobacco Inc., whose domestic market is predicted to shrink ... and grow sustainably to strength our business foundations,” spokesman Kana Miyauchi said via phone on Tuesday, when the company announced its largest Asian deal yet: paying about ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Tepco gets slapped with new U.S. lawsuit over Fukushima
Tepco has been hit with more lawsuits than in any previous Japanese contamination suit over the meltdowns of three reactors at its Fukushima Daiichi plant north of Tokyo after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Radiation forced 160,000 people ... ( read original story ...)
Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan’s Startup Guru
Imagine the publisher of Pornhub.com being asked to address Harvard University undergraduates on the virtues of running a socially responsible business. That’s basically what happened in Japan this past December, when the country’s most prestigious ... ( read original story ...)
China’s XAircraft has a US$27k drone solution for Japan’s ageing farmers
XAircraft sees business potential from the Japanese market as local farmers are well acquainted with the use of advanced technologies. Nearly three-quarters of rice production in Japan is mechanised while over a third of rice farms made use of pesticide ... ( read original story ...)
The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami
The earthquake that struck Japan on Friday 11 March 2011 was the fourth most powerful in the history of seismology. It knocked the Earth six and a half inches off its axis; it moved Japan four metres closer to America. In the tsunami that followed ... ( read original story ...)
How the 2011 killer tsunami sent shock waves through Japan
The most powerful earthquake yet recorded, in 1960 off Chile, sent 80-foot waves across 10,500 miles of ocean — and struck Japan, half a world away, killing 142 people there. Japan is a magnet for super-tsunamis, which recur at intervals of 800 to 1,000 ... ( read original story ...)
Koike says no to eulogy for Koreans killed in 1923 quake
The Japan-Korea Society, the Japan-China Friendship Association ... will memorialize them together.” The Great Kanto Earthquake resulted in 100,500 deaths. ( read original story ...)
Shock waves in Japan
The most powerful earthquake yet recorded, in 1960 off Chile, sent 80-foot waves across 10,500 miles of ocean — and struck Japan, half a world away, killing 142 people there. Japan is a magnet for super-tsunamis, which recur at intervals of 800 to 1,000 ... ( read original story ...)
Business Class Awards to Tokyo Available Every Day in Summer
Air Canada announced new Montreal – Tokyo Narita service this morning operated by a Boeing 787. The flight will be daily during the summer and will operate 3 times a week in winter. Montral – Tokyo Narita, 2:05pm – 3:50pm+1, Air Canada AC005 Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
Japan building made earthquake-proof by thousands of cables anchoring it down (VIDEO)
With Japan's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire making it prone to earthquakes, citizens are continually finding ways to protect the country's infrastructure. CNN reports that textile company Komatsu Seiren has created threads made from thermoplastic ... ( read original story ...)
The World’s First Geisha Cafe Opens in Osaka, Japan
Maikoya Osaka has many offerings. There is a cafe with specialty products such as golden ice cream and an elegant gold flake covered Kobe beef sandwich that costs $300. These dishes are served by a geisha whom visitors can chat and take pictures with. ( read original story ...)
Osaka on the bid
In previous comments to Business Daily, an advisor to Japan’s government on the bill, Toru Mihara, said that ‘feelings may change depending on how you explain, persuade, and present merits and demerits.’ After Tokyo and Osaka, the committee ... ( read original story ...)
Review: ANA Business Class Tokyo (NRT) – Washington DC (IAD) on Boeing 777-300
This was my first flight on the ANA 777-300 and I did not know what to expect in terms of cabin quality. The cabin on first glance did look a little dated, especially since I had just completed a segment in the ANA Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from Bangkok to ... ( read original story ...)