The muon devices include chemical emulsion instruments from Japan’s University of Nagoya, electronic sensors from the KEK Japanese Research Laboratory, and muon telescopes from the French Atomic Energy Commission. The results are then compared with ... ( read original story ...)
Australian team wins Amazon Robotics Challenge in Japan
The team of 15 from the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision - made up of students from ANU, QUT and the University of Adelaide - came out as victors over 15 other teams from 10 countries in the Amazon Robotics Challenge in Nagoya. The ACRV team at the ... ( read original story ...)
Rinnai to create 300 jobs in Spalding County
Rinnai, a subsidiary of Rinnai Corporation, is headquartered in Peachtree City. Based in Nagoya, Japan, Rinnai Corporation has a network of 20 branches and 86 sales offices in 13 countries across the globe. “Georgia’s economic prosperity is a result of ... ( 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 ...)
Clive Palmer moves Titanic II treasures to Gold Coast resort
The Avica Resort, which Queensland Nickel bought from Japanese wedding company Watanabe for $11.9 million in 2010 before transferring the property to Mr Palmer three years later for $7.9 million, is one of a number of properties the liquidators will be ... ( read original story ...)
Buyer of Peninsula Hotels stake tries pre-empting takeover talk
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 ...)