The team of 15 from the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision - made up of students from ANU, QUT and the University of Adelaide - came out as victors over 15 other teams from 10 countries in the Amazon Robotics Challenge in Nagoya. The ACRV team at the ... ( read original story ...)
Rinnai to create 300 jobs in Spalding County
Rinnai, a subsidiary of Rinnai Corporation, is headquartered in Peachtree City. Based in Nagoya, Japan, Rinnai Corporation has a network of 20 branches and 86 sales offices in 13 countries across the globe. “Georgia’s economic prosperity is a result of ... ( read original story ...)
Panda-themed Adventure World express debuts in Osaka
OSAKA – A Kuroshio limited express train led by a car with a panda face debuted Saturday in Osaka to lure tourists to Adventure World, the giant wildlife theme park in Wakayama Prefecture where the popular animals are on show. “I’m about to board the ... ( read original story ...)
Clive Palmer moves Titanic II treasures to Gold Coast resort
The Avica Resort, which Queensland Nickel bought from Japanese wedding company Watanabe for $11.9 million in 2010 before transferring the property to Mr Palmer three years later for $7.9 million, is one of a number of properties the liquidators will be ... ( read original story ...)
Buyer of Peninsula Hotels stake tries pre-empting takeover talk
Li heads the Communist Party's General Office, a post equivalent to Japan's chief cabinet secretary ... Underlying profit -- calculated by subtracting the after-tax effects of property revaluation and other items -- rose 19% to HK$181 million. ( read original story ...)
‘It makes you feel not valued’: How wage cuts broke Sahar
Families are also wrestling with rising electricity prices, skyrocketing property prices and high demand for accommodation ... wages growth felt in the US since the 1990s and in Europe and Japan since the global financial crisis. The mining boom and ... ( read original story ...)
Pokemon Go news: Mewtwo Raid update, Moltres takedown, new Gym reveal
Here’s what the team Pokemon Go Hub think of the latest changes: “We were not surprised to see BCR removed for Mewtwo and Legendary Beasts, but Ho-Oh caught us off guard, as we’re quite certain he should be available on the Yokohama Pokemon GO ... ( read original story ...)
Donald Edwards
He then shipped out to serve in the Korean War and was stationed in Yokohama, Japan directing a photographic unit ... quickly moving on to news photographer/reporter, Director of Documentaries and Public Affairs and soon, the Producer of News and Public ... ( read original story ...)
U Treasure releases new KINGDOM HEARTS necklaces and ring on 8/14
All four products will be available starting August 14, 2017 at the U-TREASURE POP UP SHOP (Shinjuku), U-TREASURE SHOP K.uno, as well as stores in Sapporo, Yokohama • Motomachi, Nagoya • Sakae, Kanazawa, Shizuoka, Umeda, Kobe and Fukuoka. Other stores ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Glico tripling ice cream production in Thailand
OSAKA -- Japanese snack maker Ezaki Glico plans to triple ice cream output in Thailand to between 2 billion yen and 3 billion yen ($18 million and $27 million) worth of the sweet stuff by 2020. The Osaka-based confectioner at its own expense recently ... ( read original story ...)
Roxy-Pacific Holdings buys Osaka hotel for $27 million
Singapore-based property and hospitality group Roxy-Pacific Holdings has acquired its second hotel asset in Japan, the Tenmabashi Grand Hotel Osaka, for ¥3 billion, or just over $27 million. The deal is expected to be completed in October. The 154 ... ( read original story ...)
Miyazaki Bank Ltd (8393) Jumped 0.54% on Aug 5
When the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 broke out; the Japanese equity market is one of those that had taken a great hit. In October 2008, the Nikkei 225 had sunk below the 7,000 mark, down by about 80% from its all-time high. Miyazaki Bank Ltd is a stock ... ( read original story ...)
Turning point
And every month, the ECB and the Bank of Japan add tens of billions of dollars more in assets to their balance sheets. A sudden move to sell those assets by Ms. Yellen or Mr. Draghi would send long-term interest higher and shock waves through financial ... ( read original story ...)
Nothing cold about sub-zero rates, IMF researchers find
Japan, Sweden and Switzerland. Cutting rates below zero has been a factor in some central banks' struggle to help their economies recover from the financial crisis and its accompanying trend towards deflation. The European Central Bank, for example ... ( read original story ...)
New Zealand inquiry doesn’t recommend legalizing assisted suicide, euthanasia
Tokyo, Japan, Feb 8, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News ... obtaining a legal copyright recognizing the pattern as the intellectual property of the order. Although it was never officially announced, the copyright had been granted the same day as Mother ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Sapporo Has Bought America’s Original Craft Brewery And Yes, People, This Is A Good Thing
DISCLOSURE: SAPPORO BRAND UNIBROUE IS A PAST SPONSOR OF THE TV SHOW I CO-HOST, CALLED “WHAT’S ON TAP.” The news hit the papers the next morning. “How could this happen?” bemoaned critics across thousands of social media comments. “How can ... ( read original story ...)