Tag: Nagoya

After two straight championships, yokozuna Kakuryu sits atop the rankings for the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament that the Japan Sumo Association published Monday. While the 32-year-old Mongolian goes for a grand tournament title hat-trick, much of the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks edged up at the close Tuesday as bargain-hunting purchases wiped out earlier losses caused by worries over US-China trade frictions. After a session spent mainly in the red, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index gained 0.02 percent or 3.85 points to ... ( read original story ...)

Stocks extended their losses on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, battered by the yen’s strengthening against the dollar on the back of concerns over increasing trade friction between the United States and other economies. The 225-issue Nikkei average ... ( read original story ...)

On Monday morning, more families who had been stuck in legal limbo in Japan, walked through the gates of Vancouver ... made a difference and helped us get home,” Lee Fodi told Global News shortly after he, his wife and their newly adopted baby named ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo, Japan's capital, flutters with nervous excitement. Welcome to the 2018 World Cup. Your first game is against South American firecracker Columbia. You've never beaten them before. No Asian country has defeated a South American country in the World ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks open flat with investors wary of trade war (Photo: AFP). Tokyo: Tokyo stocks opened flat on Monday with worries over a US-China trade war partly offset by optimism about the US economy. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged up just 0.20 points ... ( read original story ...)

“What was bizarre about it is that there is no indication to this day that there has ever been any Japanese concern with these adoptions,” he said. On Saturday, Mathieu Genest, a spokesman for Hussen’s office, told CTV News that neither the ... ( read original story ...)

Ryan Hoag is heading to Tokyo. After weeks in immigration limbo, the adoptive father-to-be finally got good news Friday night: The Canadian government had approved a visa for his new daughter, as well as the Japan-born adoptive children of four other B.C ... ( read original story ...)

Hawaiian Airlines will increase its nonstop service between Sapporo and Honolulu to up to five weekly flights Feb. 1-16. The added frequency comes in response to high demand from Hokkaido travelers during the winter holiday. Under Hawaiian’s expanded ... ( read original story ...)

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee is aiming to fully power the games with renewable energy, under a plan to help foster a more sustainable society through the quadrennial events. All electricity used at all venues will be derived ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya, Japan - Breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds is notoriously ... are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system. ( read original story ...)

Prayetno remained in Japan with their 10-week-old daughter, staying in a Tokyo hotel. Hoag said he received the news that the permanent residency visa had been issued in an email on Friday. "I was overwhelmed by emotion and felt quite numb," Hoag said. ( read original story ...)

Five B.C. families mired in red tape say they are finally able to bring their adopted babies home from Japan. The families received news on Saturday that their paperwork has been approved by the Canadian government, meaning their adopted children can come ... ( read original story ...)

MISTRESS Tokyo is unapologetically frank. Speaking before a Sexpo fetish workshop audience, she speaks with an almost discomforting candour about the pleasure in inflicting pain on her clients. On stage only her face and hands are visible. Everything else ... ( read original story ...)

An army of Pikachu will launch its fifth infiltration of Yokohama in August, but the invasion through the streets will continue into the evening for the first time. The “Pikachu Outbreak,” held annually since 2014 in the Kanagawa prefectural capital ... ( read original story ...)

The video, which premiered today on the Fader, sees the 19-year-old rapper on a Tokyo adventure, backed by a colourful group of friends. “I encourage everyone to go to Japan,” Smith told Fader. “Specifically to Tokyo, to just have fun and adventure ... ( read original story ...)