Tag: sapporo

Meat from fin whales caught legally for the first time in nearly 50 years was auctioned in Japan on December 12 fetching prices as high as US1300 per kilogram ... ( read original story ...)

The Maglev is still under construction between Tokyo and Nagoya but will eventually extend to Osaka. Following completion of this Tokyo-Nagoya line, the train line will extend to stations in Nara, Mie ... ( read original story ...)

In a society used to quiet consensus-building, Tokyo has made bold changes to its defense policy. “Did I contribute to that?” Mr. Emanuel asked. “Uh, yeah.” ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Osaka have arrested a 77-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he threw TV sets and other items from the window of his 8th-floor apartment. According to police, Takahiro ... ( read original story ...)

A junior high school student was stabbed to death and another wounded Saturday night by an unknown assailant at a McDonald's restaurant in southwestern Japan, local media reported. ( read original story ...)

U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Guam, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop presence on the ... ( read original story ...)

The roughly $35 billion project began construction in 2019. Now, just four years later, the new line is fully operational. To compare that to U.S. train infrastructure, four years is around how long ... ( read original story ...)

In the high-profile homicide case, a couple and their two children were killed at their home in the ward's Kamisoshigaya district in December 2000. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya is arranging talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Dec. 25, a Japanese government source close to the matter said Saturday, in what will be his first visit to the neighboring country as Japan's top ... ( read original story ...)

Four Japanese high school students working as "peace ambassadors" for the abolition of nuclear weapons have pledged to inherit the wishes of atomic bomb survivors for a world free of nuclear arms. ( read original story ...)

Demonstrators took to the streets in prefectures and cities including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Sapporo. A large crowd gathered along Gyoko-dori street in front of Tokyo Station, where participants ... ( read original story ...)

A match during the top-level Meijin shogi ranking tournament on Dec. 13 came to an unusual end when 40-year-old Akira Watanabe resigned becau ... ( read original story ...)

Japan wants its hardworking citizens to take a break. The country is pushing for a four-day workweek to address labor shortages and improve work-life balance. ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday visited Fukushima Prefecture, hit hard by an earthquake in 2011 that triggered a crisis at ( read original story ...)

Japan Festival got off to a ground-breaking start, literally, on Saturday, December 7, as the Embassy of Japan in Kingston announced before the event that it would be working with Royal Hope Botanical Gardens and the Nature Preservation Foundation for the ... ( read original story ...)

When visitors come to the World Expo in Osaka next year, guides for the global event will welcome them with the Japanese customary gr ... ( read original story ...)