Release date- 22062017 - SANTA ANA, CA. - Yokohama Tire Corporation's off-road connection grew stronger as the tire maker announced a new partnership with Horsepower Adventures (HPA), a specialized off-road driving experience company, operating on Mexico's ... ( read original story ...)
Batam, Yokohama to collaborate in urban development projects
The administration of Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city, expects to soon kick off several collaborative projects with the Batam municipal administration to promote sustainable development in Indonesia’s key business hub. Through the projects ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama kicks off 2017 Ride and Drive Dealer Program
Yokohama Tire’s 2017 Ride and Drive Dealer Training Program – a five-city tour across the U.S. – kicked-off in Seattle, Washington. The annual program helps educate YTC dealers on Yokohama products while improving their driving skills. “The Ride ... ( read original story ...)
Toshiba chooses US-Japan bidder for memory chip biz sale
Money-losing Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday that it has chosen a U.S.-Japan consortium as the preferred bidder in the sale of its lucrative memory chip business, but hurdles remain as an American joint-venture partner is opposing the move. Toshiba sorely ... ( read original story ...)
Canadian horses mistreated en route to slaughter in Japan, activist says
An animal rights group alleges that horses destined for slaughter were mistreated during transportation from Edmonton International Airport to Japan earlier this month. Karin Nelson from “Voice for Animals,” a non-profit organization dedicated to ... ( read original story ...)
Soccer: Consadole welcomes Thailand’s 1st J-Leaguer
Chanathip Songkrasin had a light workout on Wednesday, a day after he arrived in Sapporo to join J-League first-division side Consadole. The 23-year-old Thai international, the first from his nation to join a J-League team, is on loan from Thai club ... ( read original story ...)
Sapporo set for more talks as Sleeman-Unibroue strike continues in Canada
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Osaka university partners with firms to sell goods made with discarded tuna skin
OSAKA – Kindai University, which pioneered the artificial farming of bluefin tuna — a pricy delicacy served as sushi — is giving new life to the discarded skin of the precious fish by utilizing it for leather and cosmetics products. The Osaka ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Is Giving Away a Ram Truck in Facebook Sweepstakes
The grand prize in Yokohama Tire Corp.’s “Get Trucked Up Giveaway” is a custom-built 2017 Ram 2500 Power Wagon crew cab 4x4 featuring the company’s new Geolandar M/T G003 mud-terrain tires. The contest runs through Oct. 15. Yokohama is presenting ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s south hit by 5.0 quake, no tsunami
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 has hit southern Japan but is not likely to cause a tsunami, Japan Meteorological Agency says. The 11:31 pm (0031 AEST) quake was centred in the Bungo strait connecting the southern main islands of Kyushu ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Gains Ground on Wasteful Workaholics
First, the good news: Japan has finally begun to wrestle with its endemic problem of long, unproductive working hours. Japanese companies are famous for forcing their employees to work unpaid overtime long into the night. Workers are afraid that if they ... ( read original story ...)
Japan eyes U.S. nuclear pact that renews automatically amid Trump administration vacancies
Japan will seek a nuclear pact with the United States that renews automatically while it continues reprocessing spent fuel and enriching uranium, rather than a long-term pact similar to one set to expire next year, government sources said Tuesday. Ahead of ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka broadcaster denies adulterous relationship involving host influenced programming
OSAKA (TR) – Mainichi Broadcasting System claimed earlier this month that an adulterous relationship involving a host of a daily news program and the head of a non-profit organization, as alleged by a weekly magazine, had no effect on its programming ... ( read original story ...)
USS Fitzgerald collision wasn’t reported for nearly an hour, Japan says
The impact crushed the starboard side of the Fitzgerald. The ship was listing as it sailed into its home port in Yokosuka, Japan, Saturday, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports. The commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet said the sailors' actions kept the ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. identifies sailors who died in ship crash off Japan
Among the seven U.S. Navy sailors who died in the Saturday collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a Philippine-flagged container ship off Japan were an Ohioan expecting to retire soon, a Maryland man his father called his best friend, and a Connecticut ... ( read original story ...)
What we know about Navy destroyer’s deadly collision with a container ship off Japan
The Japanese coast guard is investigating the collision between ... including those sleeping in bunks below and above him and that three men in the berth above his died as well. At a news conference Sunday, Vice Adm. Joseph P. Aucoin of the 7th Fleet ... ( read original story ...)