Tag: Nagoya

A strong quake measuring a weak-6 on the Japanese scale hit Osaka region on Monday morning, national broadcaster NHK reported. No tsunami warning was issued. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, June 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 rocked Osaka prefecture, western Japan at 7:58 a. m. local time, Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday. The temblor was centered in the northern part of Osaka prefecture ... ( read original story ...)

Just before 8 am local time a magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Osaka. It's categorized as a six-minus on a scale of zero to seven on Japan's seismic intensity scale. Shinkansen bullet train service has been halted. Hyogo, Kyoto, Shiga, Nara are also ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – More than 2,000 fire ants were exterminated in Osaka port on Friday after turning up in a shipping container from China, government officials said. The discovery of the invasive species native to South America is one of the largest since an ... ( read original story ...)

It’s absolute proof of a transaction and at times feels like necessary proof that you exist here at all. Paperwork rules the roost in any Tokyo office. However, subscription-based software company SmartHR is here to change that. Its goal is to assist ... ( read original story ...)

View from Osaka is a monthly column that examines the latest news from a Kansai perspective. North Korea's official Pyongyang Broadcasting Station repeated on Friday that the abduction issue has "already been settled," according to the Tokyo-based Radio ... ( read original story ...)

Japan made the move on Friday after news surfaced that grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in southern Alberta. “We are suspending the tender and sale of Canadian wheat until we confirm that the Canadian wheat that ... ( read original story ...)

Alberta Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous will hold a news conference Friday afternoon about Japan’s suspension of Canadian wheat shipments. (Global News will livestream the news conference in the video player above.) Japan’s farm ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese Farm Ministry official said on Friday it has suspended its tender and sale of wheat from Canada after grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in Alberta. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Thursday ... ( read original story ...)

The Meitetsu Department Store in Nagoya, Japan has a distinctive mannequin outside its men's department. The mannequin is known locally as Nana-chan, and she's a popular landmark for meet ups because she's easy to spot in the shopping district —she's 20 ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – Osaka made its final pitch Wednesday in Paris to host the 2025 World Expo, emphasizing the Kansai region’s history as a center of Nobel-prize winning scientific research and telling expo delegates that the central government is willing to spend ... ( read original story ...)

The operator of Tokyo Disneyland is investing 250 billion yen ($2.3 billion) to expand the Japanese resort as Walt Disney Co. continues to upgrade its theme parks in Asia. Oriental Land Co., which is licensed to operate the Tokyo resort, will expand the ... ( read original story ...)

The utility responsible for meltdowns at a nuclear power plant in northeast Japan seven years ago said Thursday for the first time publicly that it might decommission another plant in Fukushima that narrowly escaped the crisis. Tokyo Electric Power Company ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to media after the news conference by the U.S. President Donald Trump, after the summit between the U.S. and North Korea in Singapore, at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato ... ( read original story ...)

These are external links and will open in a new window Adulthood is about to come a lot earlier in life for many in Japan. The government has enacted a bill lowering the age of adulthood from 20 to 18, which will affect millions across the country when it ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese third seed Naomi Osaka recorded a dominant 6-3 6-2 win over Czech Republic’s Denisa Allertova in just over an hour to reach her first WTA quarter-final on grass, where she will take on rising Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu. Buzarnescu had her best ... ( read original story ...)