Tag: Nagoya

The mother of a 30-year-old woman charged with killing and beheading a man in Sapporo last July denied Tuesday that she provided assistance to her daughter. "I didn't intend to help," Hiroko Tamura, ... ( read original story ...)

Osaka Prefectural Police have requested financial institutions to freeze approximately 1,300 accounts misused by a group conducting a money laundering operation, investigative sources said Tuesday. An ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward plans to extend its ban on drinking on the streets to cover the entire year, while Shinjuku Ward is taking its first measures to deal with crowds of Halloween revelers. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo officials will be launching a dating application as a "gentle push" for its citizens to find partners. This is part of the government's efforts to boost the country's plunging birth rates. AFP ... ( read original story ...)

Users will be required to submit documentation proving they are legally single and sign a letter stating they are willing to get married. ( read original story ...)

But that’s just one of the things you’re almost guaranteed to see at Immersive Fort Tokyo, a new interactive indoor theme park by Katana Inc, whose chief executive officer, Tsuyoshi Morioka, brought ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) - Shares of Japanese space junk removal startup Astroscale Holdings (186A.T) , opens new tab rose 51% in their debut on Tokyo's growth market on Wednesday. The stock first ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's service activity extended robust gains in May, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday, amid persistent inflationary pressures that have boosted expectations for another interest rate hike ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages fell again in April from a year earlier, extending a record streak of declines for the 25th month, as higher costs of living outweighed pay raises, data from the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese workers’ base pay jumped by the largest margin since 1994 in a sign that corporate pledges to offer the biggest wage increases in three decades are starting to take effect. ( read original story ...)

The city of Tondabayashi in Osaka Prefecture has announced a new inbound tour by "SABIWabisabi," aimed at revitalizing the local community. This exclusive tour combines traditional Japanese cultural ... ( read original story ...)

The shuttered Anchor Brewing Company is being given a new lease on life after Hamdi Ulukaya, the billionaire founder and CEO of Chobani yogurt, scooped up the business with plans to reopen. The craft ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his government to compile a long-term economic and fiscal plan on Tuesday, drawing a line under nearly two decades of falling prices and economic ... ( read original story ...)

Japan plans to look into legislation to support the commercial production of advanced semiconductors, a draft of this year's long-term economic policy plan seen by Reuters shows. The long-term roadmap ... ( read original story ...)

Written by Maria-Cristina Florian Published on June 04, 2024 A man works on a large wooden boat (dhow) at a shipyard in Manama in about 1950. Image Courtesy of the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA -- There are signs of momentum for a museum dedicated to the late "Dragon Ball" and "Dr. Slump" creator Akira Toriyama to be built in Aichi Prefecture, where he was born, after the prefecture's ... ( read original story ...)