Tag: Nagoya

"I want to die," Takahashi posted on social media, according to the news site. "I'm physically and mentally shattered." In response to her death, Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and the government have proposed a monthly overtime cap at 100 hours and ... ( read original story ...)

BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the ... Although Ishiguro did not return to Japan until his mid-30s, his first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World both centered on Japanese characters. ( read original story ...)

Founded in 1948, Hekinan is a city of 73,000 people and is an hour’s train ride south of Nagoya in central Japan. Like Edmonds, it is a waterfront city, surrounded by a lake, a river and two bays. With more than 400 factories in the automobile ... ( read original story ...)

... Guard claim that four China's patrol ships entered Japan's territorial waters near disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, local media reported Thursday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The NHK news agency reported, citing the Japanese Coast Guard ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s employees used, on average ... Masahiko Yamauchi, a senior official in NHK’s news department, conceded that Sado’s death reflected a “problem for our organisation as a whole, including the labour system and how elections are covered”. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo (AFP) - Tokyo plans to send green fingers to every corner of the world on a mission to spruce up Japanese-style gardens that have fallen into disrepair. There are some 500 traditional gardens scattered across the globe -- from France to the United ... ( read original story ...)

Square Enix Café Osaka will be holding a Kingdom Hearts 15th Anniversary Commemorative Campaign Preview Night for its grand opening in Japan. It's grand opening will be on October 14th, 2017, and the Preview Night will be on October 13th, 2017 (Friday ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – The debate over statues memorializing “comfort women,” who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II, is threatening to upend a six-decade sister city relationship between Osaka and San Francisco. In an ... ( read original story ...)

Amazon.com Inc. is opening a bar. For 10 days, the web retailer is going to sell beer, wine, sake and cocktails in Tokyo’s glitzy Ginza district to promote alcoholic products sold on its website in Japan. While Amazon has opened physical bookstores ... ( read original story ...)

KEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged up 0.3 percent to 20,675.44 a day after closing at its highest in two years. Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 0.7 percent to 28,392.77 but Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.7 percent to 5,660.40. ( read original story ...)

A commentary released by North Korean Central News Agency accused Abe of pressuring North Korea purely for political gain. It said: "Japan’s such rackets inciting the tension of the Korean peninsula is a suicidal deed that will bring nuclear clouds to ... ( read original story ...)

With little to choose from in terms of policy between the two main parties fighting Japan’s general election ... planning to vote for Koike’s party in a survey published by Kyodo news published late Sunday, compared with 24 percent for the LDP. ( read original story ...)

The recall covers all models produced in Nissan factories in Japan and will cost the company 25 billion yen ($222 million). Less than 48 hours later, Nissan’s stock took a hit after the Kyodo news agency reported that the company allegedly falsified ... ( read original story ...)

Shares in Japan Display rocketed higher on the news it was seeking funds, which was first reported by the Nikkei, and they closed up 24 percent to give the firm a market value of $1.5 billion. Japan Display also has separate plans to use the evaporation ... ( read original story ...)

At least 237 Japanese marine species were catalogued in Washington State and 278 in Oregon, but the west coast of Vancouver Island is relatively inaccessible, so no one is there to report it when biofouled items land. “From what we have seen in news ... ( read original story ...)

For the dome tour, the singer will make stops in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Sapporo ... SEE ALSO: Amuro Namie's new song 'Finally' picked up for 'NEWS ZERO' ( read original story ...)