Tag: Nagoya

The US maintains two Osprey squadrons in Japan, according to Reuters ... it could have fallen on where we are living," local resident Yuri Soma told Kyodo news agency. Local anger against the US military has intensified in recent months after a civilian ... ( read original story ...)

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.—Christmas gifts arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, courtesy of Japan. A Japanese cargo ship pulled up at the orbiting lab four days after launching. The capsule — called Kounotori, or white stork — contains ... ( read original story ...)

The outer space could do with some cleaning up, and a Japanese space vehicle has a solution. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently launched into orbit a space junk collector to clean up space debris. Kounotori, which means stork in Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Christmas gifts arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, courtesy of Japan. A Japanese cargo ship pulled up at the orbiting lab four days after launching. The capsule -- called Kounotori, or white stork -- contains ... ( read original story ...)

The Whites lifted the 2002 Intercontinental Cup in Yokohama. Real Madrid boast previous experience of winning silverware in Yokohama after lifting the Intercontinental Cup there in 2002, as they ran out 2-0 winners against Paraguay's Olimpia de Asunción. ( read original story ...)

Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan pledged Tuesday to implement new sanctions against North Korea, including capping the country's coal exports to choke off cash flowing into its nuclear weapons program. After meeting in Seoul ... ( read original story ...)

Flight SQ661 from Sapporo, capital city of Hokkaido, was originally scheduled to depart on Friday at 8.55am local time with 192 passengers and 12 crew but it was delayed because of poor weather. It was rescheduled to leave the next day but was further ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)