Tag: Nagoya

TOKYO - In a story Feb. 7 about engineer Yasuhisa Toyota's work in concert halls, The Associated Press reported erroneously that he founded his company. He is not the founder of Nagata Acoustics. A corrected version of the story is below: Concert halls ... ( read original story ...)

it is very important to demonstrate the unshakeable U.S.-Japan alliance at home and abroad," Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference. "This is the most important theme of the U.S.-Japan leaders summit," he said, adding it was ... ( read original story ...)

Sharp Corp, the Japanses display maker, may break ground on a $7-billion plant in the U.S. as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe readies for his first meeting with President Trump, Reuters reported. A Sharp spokesman told the news agency that no final ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Tire Corp. has teamed up with Spartan Race, the world’s largest obstacle race and endurance brand, to highlight its GEOLANDAR line of light truck tires. Yokohama signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement and is now the “Official Tire of the U ... ( read original story ...)

Okura Nikko Hotel Management Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hotel Okura Co., Ltd., announced today that it will open Hotel JAL City Nagoya Nishiki, the Okura Nikko Hotel’s first property in Nagoya, Japan. The company signed a contract with Enuwan LLC to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Board members at the club that will host the 2020 Olympic golf tournament failed to make a decision about changing their policy of excluding women as full members. The Kasumigaseki Country Club came under scrutiny recently when the International ... ( read original story ...)

View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170207006603/en/ The new hotel will be located in Fushimi, just seven minutes from Fushimi Station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway. Fushimi, traditionally a tranquil area on the banks of ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. figures reported Tuesday showed Japan logged the second largest trade surplus with the U.S. last year, at $68.9 billion dollars. China's, at $347 billion, was the highest. Those reports were front page news in Japan, where Trump's criticism has ... ( read original story ...)

chief economist and principal at Japan Macro Advisors, told Bloomberg News. “It basically gives ammunition to the Trump administration that the yen is too cheap.” Japan’s current account surplus hit 20.65 trillion yen (USD 184 billion) last year ... ( read original story ...)

US President Donald Trump will play a round of golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Florida this week Reuters Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe has called on companies and investors in his country to gather “tweetable” figures of their US ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan says its current account surplus hit a 9-year high in 2016, helped by lower costs for imported oil and improved exports. The perennial trade surpluses Japan runs with the U.S. are a sore point for U.S. President Donald Trump, and the data ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s prime minister, a man who promised voters he would turn Japan back into a “beautiful country”, is now doing his utmost to Make America Great Again. Shinzo Abe is set to arrive in Washington on Friday for his first official summit with ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is charting its own course to deal with a radically different U.S. president, an approach that will be tested at the end of this week when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Donald Trump in the White House and on the golf course in Florida. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo, Japan, Feb 8, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A 17th century Catholic Samurai and martyr was beatified during a Mass in ‎Osaka, Japan on Tuesday. Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Vatican’s ‎Congregation for the Causes of Saints ... ( read original story ...)

The US and Japan have successfully carried out the first test of a defense system designed to shoot down ballistic missiles. The US Missile Defense Agency revealed the USS John Paul Jones was able to track, locate and ultimately destroy a missile by ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Tokyo prosecutors have questioned the president of the Japan Olympic Committee over controversial payments made to a Singaporean consulting firm during the bidding for the 2020 Summer Games, Kyodo News agency reported on Wednesday. The questioning of ... ( read original story ...)