Li heads the Communist Party's General Office, a post equivalent to Japan's chief cabinet secretary ... Underlying profit -- calculated by subtracting the after-tax effects of property revaluation and other items -- rose 19% to HK$181 million. ( read original story ...)
‘It makes you feel not valued’: How wage cuts broke Sahar
Families are also wrestling with rising electricity prices, skyrocketing property prices and high demand for accommodation ... wages growth felt in the US since the 1990s and in Europe and Japan since the global financial crisis. The mining boom and ... ( read original story ...)
Pokemon Go news: Mewtwo Raid update, Moltres takedown, new Gym reveal
Here’s what the team Pokemon Go Hub think of the latest changes: “We were not surprised to see BCR removed for Mewtwo and Legendary Beasts, but Ho-Oh caught us off guard, as we’re quite certain he should be available on the Yokohama Pokemon GO ... ( read original story ...)
Donald Edwards
He then shipped out to serve in the Korean War and was stationed in Yokohama, Japan directing a photographic unit ... quickly moving on to news photographer/reporter, Director of Documentaries and Public Affairs and soon, the Producer of News and Public ... ( read original story ...)
U Treasure releases new KINGDOM HEARTS necklaces and ring on 8/14
All four products will be available starting August 14, 2017 at the U-TREASURE POP UP SHOP (Shinjuku), U-TREASURE SHOP K.uno, as well as stores in Sapporo, Yokohama • Motomachi, Nagoya • Sakae, Kanazawa, Shizuoka, Umeda, Kobe and Fukuoka. Other stores ... ( 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 ...)
Roxy-Pacific Holdings buys Osaka hotel for $27 million
Singapore-based property and hospitality group Roxy-Pacific Holdings has acquired its second hotel asset in Japan, the Tenmabashi Grand Hotel Osaka, for ¥3 billion, or just over $27 million. The deal is expected to be completed in October. The 154 ... ( 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 ...)
Miyazaki Bank Ltd (8393) Jumped 0.54% on Aug 5
When the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 broke out; the Japanese equity market is one of those that had taken a great hit. In October 2008, the Nikkei 225 had sunk below the 7,000 mark, down by about 80% from its all-time high. Miyazaki Bank Ltd is a stock ... ( read original story ...)