Tag: sapporo

With the anniversary of the earthquake quickly approaching, along with the beginning of cherry blossom season, Sapporo has found a crisp, refreshing way to continue supporting recovery with one of the best parts of sakura viewing: drinking beer. ( read original story ...)

Saskatoon's Shelby Newkirk is at the top of her game, swimming and competing internationally with her sights set clearly on the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Newkirk just returned from a swim meet in Denmark. "Believe in yourself and don't let anything ... ( read original story ...)

Dinosaur receptionists were on standby on Wednesday as a second hotel staffed mostly by robots and automatons opened in Tokyo. Media were invited ahead of customers to check out the nine types of robots that help check guests in, clean the lobby ... ( read original story ...)

YAMAZAKI, Japan - A dim storage room surrounded by bamboo groves and pastoral hills is filled wall-to-wall with 3,000 wooden barrels. Here sleeps, for years, sometimes decades, prized Japanese whisky. The Suntory distillery in Yamazaki, near the ancient ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese people with the "spirits" of foreigners were also ... Mr Abe's poll numbers continue to slide, with Kyodo news agency reporting a six-point drop to 55.7% in the last month, and almost three-quarters of respondents calling for Mr Kagoike to answer ... ( read original story ...)

London's East End has seen its fair share of fights. But Japanese wrestler Kota Ibushi took his brawling to the next level, setting himself alight with a firework and backflipping off a car. The scenes of mayhem took place at his tag team wrestling match ... ( read original story ...)

Japan does not have any claim to the waters ... another of the sources said. Asked during a news conference about his view on the warship visit, Duterte said, without elaborating, "I have invited all of them." He added: "It is international passage ... ( read original story ...)

"Tokyo Ghoul" will to try and raise its rating and get viewers back. March 18 will be last time One Piece airs on Toonami. (Photo : Youtube/Squaller) Toonami recently made a surprising announcement on Facebook on Friday that it will end its airing of the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Troubled Japanese nuclear and electronics company Toshiba ... "We want to deal with this properly," he said at a news conference after the company won approval for a second delay in reporting its earnings for October-December. ( read original story ...)

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced today that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into a management agreement with Tokyo Bay Resort Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sogo Development Co., Ltd. for a Hyatt Place hotel near Tokyo Disney Resort in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s biggest city gas supplier, Tokyo Gas said its natural gas sales during February 2017 dropped 1.5 percent compared to the corresponding month a year before. The total gas sales for the month of February reached 1.45 billion cubic meters ... ( read original story ...)

Madison Keys needed just 57 minutes to knock out Naomi Osaka in straight sets and book her spot into the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open, where Caroline Wozniacki awaits. INDIAN WELLS, CA, USA - No.9 seed Madison Keys needed just 57 minutes to knock ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is planning to send its largest warship on a three-month ... another source said. Asked during a news conference about his view on the warship visit, Duterte said, without elaborating, 'I have invited all of them.' He added: 'It is international ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – The Osaka Prefectural Police arrested a 30-year-old woman Monday for allegedly lifting her 9-month-old daughter up high, then dropping the girl, causing her to suffer a fatal head injury in January. The mother, Hiromi Nasu, owned up to the charge ... ( read original story ...)

One of the most exciting celluloid happenings in Japan, the 12th edition of the Osaka Asian Film Festival wrapped last weekend after screening 58 films from all over Asia. Thai films were very much in the spotlight this year as, in addition to the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan and Saudi Arabia agreed Monday to explore ways to bolster Japanese investment and trade in the Middle Eastern nation, possibly by setting up special economic zones there. King Salman and about a thousand businesspeople from Saudi Arabia are in Japan ... ( read original story ...)