Tag: sapporo

OSAKA - Tissue paper and other daily products sold at Osaka Prison are so expensive that inmates mostly cannot purchase them, a situation amounting to a human rights violation, according to local ... ( read original story ...)

Caterpillar has honoured Yokohama Tire with a Platinum Level Recertification award in its Supplier Quality Excellence Process (SQEP). (Photo: Yokohama Tire) Yokohama Tire recently announced that it is ... ( read original story ...)

Clinching a world championship berth will be on the minds of several Canadian sprinters next month's IAAF World Relays in Yokohama, Japan. Reigning national 100- and 200-metre champion Aaron Brown ... ( read original story ...)

Picture: Supplied Qantas International Acting CEO Naren Kumar said in a statement to News Corp that Sapporo was a popular holiday spot. “Travel between Australia and Japan is booming,” he said. “These ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Japan’s exports declined in March as shipments to China dropped more than 9%, pulling the nation’s trade surplus sharply lower. The data released Wednesday by the Finance Ministry was more or ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s financial regulator will require cryptocurrency exchanges to strengthen internal oversight of the so-called “cold wallets” used to store digital money, a source ... ( read original story ...)

The Olympic basketball tournament has been shortened for the 2020 Tokyo Games to cut the number of group matches from five to three for each team. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) says ... ( read original story ...)

Next year’s men’s and women’s Olympic marathons will start at 6 a.m. local time to try to avoid the worst of Tokyo’s blazing summer heat, organisers said on Tuesday. Advertising The marathons had been ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Next year’s men’s and women’s Olympic marathons will start at 6 a.m. local time to try to avoid the worst of Tokyo’s blazing summer heat, organizers said on Tuesday. The ... ( read original story ...)

The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 officially run between 24 July and 9 August, but sporting action kicks off two days before the Opening Ceremony with preliminary women’s football matches, as well as group ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi speaks during a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 16, 2019. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo (AFP) - One week after an F-35A stealth fighter jet crashed off the northeastern coast of Japan, US and Japanese military vessels are struggling to find the wreckage and protect its valuable ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - Japan’s Suntory Holdings, faced with a whisky crunch, is selling a rare mix sourced from around the world as premium whisky, aiming to elevate the status of young blends ... ( read original story ...)

Speaking to Sky News after Nissan and Honda both announced production cuts at their UK-based plants, Koji Tsuruoka said Japanese companies had been cutting back on investment in the UK amid the ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Tire has received a Platinum Supplier Award from Caterpillar for the seventh consecutive year. The award – Platinum Level Recertification in its Supplier Quality Excellence Process (SQEP) – ... ( read original story ...)

"I hope we can come to a very quick agreement with Japan over maybe some temporary ... provisions and hash out the many other issues that take longer in this area," Perdue told reporters in Washington ... ( read original story ...)