Tag: Nagoya

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will likely reshuffle his cabinet to try to bolster ratings battered by suspicions that he helped a friend get favoured treatment for his business, media reported. He will probably retain Finance Minister Taro Aso and ... ( read original story ...)

Japan unexpectedly slumped back into a trade deficit for the first time in four months, as soaring energy import bills offset growth in shipments abroad, government data showed Monday. A surprise deficit of ¥203 billion ($1.8 billion) logged the first red ... ( read original story ...)

The Nakagin Capsule Hotel in Tokyo opened in 1972, combining notions of futuristic existence with Japanese economic efficiency. The idea of sleeping in a pod originally captured people's imagination in the 1960s. It brought to mind space travel and ... ( read original story ...)

transcosmos inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President and COO: Masataka Okuda; TSE First Section: 9715; hereafter, transcosmos) expanded one of its contact centers, 'Marketing Chain Management Center Sapporo Kitaguchi' (hereafter, MCM Center Sapporo ... ( read original story ...)

"We are sticking to the current prices as the domestic market remains at a standstill," Tokyo Steel's managing director Kiyoshi Imamura told a news conference on Monday. "But we expect the market will gradually strengthen as we are headed for a slow output ... ( read original story ...)

Koreto Yamauchi is bringing a taste of Japan to Saskatchewan. The President of the Regina Japanese Canadian Club is organizing a Japanese summer festival called Matsuri at the University of Regina this weekend to help people in the area learn more about ... ( read original story ...)

Sailors missing after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off Japan have been found dead, the US Navy and Japanese media says. Seven sailors were left missing and three injured after Saturday's collision, which the US Navy said almost sank ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent a sympathy message to President Donald Trump over the fatal collision involving a U.S. Navy destroyer. Seven U.S. sailors went missing after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship ... ( read original story ...)

Family members were frantically seeking news, appealing via social media for calls from sailors ... Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi and Elaine Kurtenbach in Tokyo and Cathy Bussewitz and Jennifer Kelleher in Honolulu contributed to this report. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Jun Amano scored with two minutes left in regulation as Yokohama F Marinos beat FC Tokyo 1-0 on Sunday to pull within five points of J-League leaders Kashiwa Reysol. With his first career goal, Amano helped Yokohama to extend its unbeaten run to ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's coastguard is co-ordinating the search with US teams ... One of the most advanced warships in the world - Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, Tokyo The area where the collision took place is extremely busy, with shipping heading in and out of Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO --Seven U.S. Navy sailors are missing after the USS Fitzgerald destroyer collided before dawn with a container ship four times its size off the coast of Japan, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports. A spokesman for the 7th ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Kyodo News service says the Japanese coast guard is investigating ... vessels sailing to and from Japan's two biggest container ports in Tokyo and Yokohama. Japan's public broadcaster NHK showed aerial footage of the Fitzgerald, which had a large ... ( read original story ...)

At least I'm not chauvinistic," Yuriko Koike said, smiling. As Tokyo's first female governor, Koike is used to breaking glass ceilings, reports CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz. Japanese politics have long been dominated by men, and some are hostile to ... ( read original story ...)

The 29,060-ton ship, four times the size of the destroyer, is Philippine-flagged and all the crew are Filipinos. Japan's Kyodo News service says the Japanese coast guard is investigating the incident with the U.S. Navy and plans to question the crew ... ( read original story ...)

the destroyer USS Dewey joined other American and Japanese vessels and aircraft in the search for the missing sailors. At least three other Navy sailors were injured in the collision. Family members were frantically seeking news, appealing via social media ... ( read original story ...)