Tag: Nagoya

A man pushed a woman, 63, from a platform at JR Shin-Imamiya Station onto the tracks on Sunday (Fuji News Network) OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police are seeking the whereabouts of a man suspected of pushing a 63-year-old woman from a train platform ... ( read original story ...)

Three black swans that have died at a zoo in Nagoya since late last month were all confirmed to have been infected with avian influenza, the Aichi prefectural government said Monday. The infections at Higashiyama Zoo Botanical Gardens in the central Japan ... ( read original story ...)

The two leaders will meet in Japan to discuss economic cooperation and a decades-old territorial dispute. "We will never hurt G7 solidarity over the Ukraine issue. That's a prerequisite," Seko told a news conference. "We are making sure each item in the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – Japan has protested to China about what it says are groundless accusations that Japanese fighter jets had fired "jamming shells" as six Chinese military planes flew over waters between Japan's southern Okinawa and Miyako islands. Japan's top ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – Japan's trade minister says his country's economic relations with Russia have grown more smoothly than political ties, with about 30 joint projects ready to be signed regardless of a breakthrough in territorial issues. Trade minister Hiroshige ... ( read original story ...)

Cyber-attacks against targets in Japan, apparently carried out by international hacker group Anonymous, have been increasing since September. Last autumn, a number of government websites and other sites came under attack. However, the recent attacks are ... ( read original story ...)

HAGATNA, Guam — A 92-year-old Japanese man has returned to Guam to visit a cave where he hid for nearly a year during World War II. Kiichi Kobayashi told The Pacific Daily News through an interpreter Monday that he’s grateful for island residents and ... ( read original story ...)

Feisty and Proud in its Individuality. Osaka Prefecture is Japan’s third most populous prefecture, behind Tokyo and Kanagawa, despite it being one of the smallest in actual area. The capital is Osaka City, and Osaka Prefecture is the core of the Kansai ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese city has introduced a novel way to keep track of senior citizens with dementia who are prone to getting lost -- tagging their fingers and toes with scan-able barcodes. A company in Iruma, north of Tokyo, developed tiny nail stickers, each of ... ( read original story ...)

The Winnipeg museum was was given the Gold Award by the International Association of Universal Design at a ceremony in Nagoya, Japan ... ethnicity or other factors," a news release says. "We committed to a 'design-for-all' approach at the earliest stages ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo held a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday for a $1.5 billion National Stadium to host the 2020 Olympic Games. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and other dignitaries launched the construction at the site of the demolished National ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japanese tire manufacturer Yokohama Rubber is expanding production capacity at its Philippines plant, and has inaugurated a new factory (the West Plant) within its Clark complex. With the recent completion of the West Plant, it plans to produce 12.5 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won parliamentary approval Friday for ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's plan to withdraw from the 12-nation trade pact. Upper house lawmakers approved the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - A Japanese government panel says an estimate of the total costs to clean up the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has doubled to nearly 22 trillion yen ($190 billion), with decommissioning costs expected to continue to rise. The estimate released ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has launched a cargo ship which will use a half mile- (700m)-long tether to remove some of the vast amount of debris from Earth's orbit. The tether, made of aluminium strands and steel wire, is designed to slow the debris, pulling it out of orbit ... ( read original story ...)

With high approval ratings stoking speculation that Shinzo Abe could become Japan’s longest-serving prime minister in recent history, he faces the risk of becoming complacent. Enter Akie Abe, his wife of 29 years. The 54-year-old daughter of a ... ( read original story ...)