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 ...)
Turning point
And every month, the ECB and the Bank of Japan add tens of billions of dollars more in assets to their balance sheets. A sudden move to sell those assets by Ms. Yellen or Mr. Draghi would send long-term interest higher and shock waves through financial ... ( read original story ...)
Nothing cold about sub-zero rates, IMF researchers find
Japan, Sweden and Switzerland. Cutting rates below zero has been a factor in some central banks' struggle to help their economies recover from the financial crisis and its accompanying trend towards deflation. The European Central Bank, for example ... ( read original story ...)
New Zealand inquiry doesn’t recommend legalizing assisted suicide, euthanasia
Tokyo, Japan, Feb 8, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News ... obtaining a legal copyright recognizing the pattern as the intellectual property of the order. Although it was never officially announced, the copyright had been granted the same day as Mother ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Sapporo Has Bought America’s Original Craft Brewery And Yes, People, This Is A Good Thing
DISCLOSURE: SAPPORO BRAND UNIBROUE IS A PAST SPONSOR OF THE TV SHOW I CO-HOST, CALLED “WHAT’S ON TAP.” The news hit the papers the next morning. “How could this happen?” bemoaned critics across thousands of social media comments. “How can ... ( read original story ...)
Six Important Things To Know About Anchor’s Sale to Sapporo
News yesterday that San Francisco’s craft brewing stalwart Anchor would sell to Sapporo has made the rounds by now. That means it’s time to process it: Here are six key facts to know about what changes — or doesn’t — with Anchor owned by Sapporo. ( read original story ...)
Sapporo Buys Anchor Brewing, The Leading Pioneer Of USA Craft Beer, For $85 Million
Anchor Brewing, known for their Anchor Steam beer and for popularizing the "California Common" style of brew, was just bought by Sapporo for what Food and Wine reports to be a sum of $85 million. Sapporo did not purchase Anchor's other business ... ( read original story ...)
San Francisco’s Anchor Steam Brewing Company sold to Japan-based Sapporo
More news: AG Barr plc's (LON:BAG) Buy Rating Reiterated at Investec "With both a long-term vision and resources to realise it, Sapporo will keep brewing Anchor's beers in San Francisco while expanding to new markets worldwide". "Both companies share a ... ( read original story ...)
Sapporo Buys Anchor Brewing
Anchor’s press release holds back the amount of the sale, but the news release from Sapporo gives the transaction as $85 million, which seems like a bargain. Sapporo bought only the brewery; Anchor’s distillery business will be spun off into a separate ... ( read original story ...)
San Francisco’s Anchor Brewery acquired by Japan’s Sapporo
The brewery's President and CEO Keith Greggor said the deal was a year in the making, and Sapporo was the best fit, according to the online news outlet. "When you take a brand like Anchor, its very soul exists in the heart of San Francisco," Greggor said. ( read original story ...)
Chinese woman missing in Hokkaido traced to Kushiro shop
However, no further clues developed during the search, according to TBS News (Aug. 2). Wei’s father arrived in Sapporo on July 28. “There was nothing unusual about her before she left [China],” he reportedly told police. Police are now attempting to ... ( read original story ...)
Locals say Anchor beer sale sad but not earth shattering
Resignation, rather than outrage, was the dominant tone of the reaction to Thursday morning’s news that San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing has been sold to Japan’s Sapporo Holdings Ltd. “Wow, one of the first OG (original) craft brewers selling out ... ( read original story ...)
Japan hopes to hold economic talks with U.S. in October: finance minister
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan hopes to hold economic talks with Washington in October, Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Thursday. "I'm hoping to conduct rough preparations with Vice President (Mike) Pence in September and hold a formal talk in October," Aso ... ( read original story ...)