A once dismally undervalued property company; a hostile takeover bid; a white knight counter-offer; a doubling of the share price; the genuine prospect of a bidding war. Whisper it softly, but the ... ( read original story ...)
Traditional Tokyo ryokan with a rooftop onsen
From the moment you step off the bustling streets of Otemachi in Tokyo’s business district and enter Hoshinoya Tokyo through a wooden door of solid cypress, you’re enveloped in a quiet sensation of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan, U.S. ministers meet for trade talks as hopes for early deal fade
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and the United States will seek to narrow gaps on trade when their top negotiators meet this week, but hopes for a deal in September are fading as both sides fail to make ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank-backed IoT company Uhuru to seek London IPO
and Japanese investment arm NGK Spark Plug. Uhuru declined to comment on the total raised in its previous funding rounds, and on whether it hoped to raise further funds in the London IPO. The company ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to aid a million members of ‘lost generation’ with hiring subsidies
TOKYO -- The Japanese government will provide support ... a government source told Nikkei. It is a rare measure to throw a lifeline to people in their mid-30s to early 40s because they fell ... ( read original story ...)
Paralympic chief hails Tokyo 2020 prep but hotels ‘biggest concern’
TOKYO: The Paralympics chief has said the 2020 Games are "on ... "Most probably it is perceived in Japan that people with disabilities don't travel for leisure, for business, so why have accessible ... ( read original story ...)
Customer of sex business assaults employee in dispute over woman
TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 26-year-old man over the alleged assault of an employee of a sex business during a dispute in Tachikawa City, reports Fuji News Network (Aug. 20) ... ( read original story ...)
24 hours in Sapporo, Japan
Sapporo, the gateway to northern Japan, may not have quite the same neon-lit hustle and bustle of Tokyo or Osaka, but its scenic surroundings, laid-back pace and distinctive cuisine make it a worthy ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese princess to visit Prince Edward Island to celebrate Japan-Canada relations
CHARLOTTETOWN—Princess Takamado of Japan will visit Prince Edward Island next week as part of the official events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Canada. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s $1.5 Trillion Manager Warns of Global Investing Losses
Japan’s $1.5 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund lost money in equities, fixed-income and currency positions over the last three months, Mizuno said Tuesday in Sacramento, California. ( read original story ...)
Japanese urged not to see rare fish as omen of earthquakes
People in Japan hoping to predict the next big earthquake should ignore mysterious deep-sea fish after experts said rare sightings of the creatures on the country’s beaches did not, as some had ... ( read original story ...)
Oarfish sightings in Japan not a sign of earthquakes
Experts have debunked a theory that correlates the two. Experts have advised the people in Japan to refrain from seeing a mysterious kind of fish as a sign of the possibility of an earthquake. The ... ( read original story ...)
Study debunks Japanese belief in link between deep-sea fish, quakes
A long-held belief in Japan that sightings of deep-sea fish foretell major earthquakes is simply a superstition, according to a research team from two universities. The team, consisting of researchers ... ( read original story ...)
Fault stress inversion reveals seismogenic asperity of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
We predict, with a model (earthquake stress model) that inverts the displacements documented at 163 GNSS onshore stations of the GEONET, the change of shear and normal stresses on the megathrust near ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquakes Shake Up Groundwater Systems
A new study looking at the effect of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan on groundwater systems in China is shedding some light on how Earth’s subsurface can be affected by large earthquakes. ( read original story ...)
15 Best Things to do in Kobe, Japan
The 1995 Kōbe Earthquake (or Great Hanshin Earthquake as it’s known in Japan) was a truly devastating natural disaster. The strongest quake to hit Japan since the 1923 Kanto Earthquake, which almost ... ( read original story ...)