WWE posted the following videos of Greg Hamilton, Rusev, Lana and Shinsuke Nakamura eating puffer fish & snails before the WWE house show in Osaka, Japan over the weekend: ( read original story ...)
Bubble Era Disco Maharaja Reopens in Kyoto (News)
The reopening of the disco was supported by increases in the number of foreign tourists and the reviving popularity of discos among middle-aged people with grown-up children. Maharaja discos have already reopened in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. ( read original story ...)
Kerber ousts local favourite Osaka at Pan-Pacific Open
TOKYO — Seventh-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany got a measure of revenge for a U.S. Open loss by beating Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-4 on Monday to advance to the second round of the Pan-Pacific Open. Last month, Kerber was knocked out of the U.S. Open by the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo champ Wozniacki finds mojo just in time
TOKYO: Defending champion Caroline Wozniacki clawed her way ... The Spaniard is playing her first tournament since reaching the top of the women's world rankings. Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japan doesn’t want to sign nuclear arms ban treaty
TOKYO -- Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the UN General Assembly ... ( read original story ...)
AP Explains: Why Japan doesn’t sign nuclear arms ban treaty
Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the U.N. General Assembly meeting ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s emoji creator saw nuance in pictures
They star in a new Hollywood film. The emoji is heir to a tradition of pictographic writing stretching back millennia to Egyptian hieroglyphics and the ideograms used to write Chinese and Japanese. Despite their ubiquity, they started in 1998 with one man ... ( read original story ...)
Reprocessed nuclear fuel returned to Japan for reactor use
(Madoka Ogawa/Kyodo News via AP) Without a plutonium-burning fast reactor, Japan has resorted to burning MOX, a mixture of plutonium and uranium fuel, in conventional reactors. Only three reactors, including two at Takahama, use MOX, a fraction of planned ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake hits Japan off coast of Fukushima nuclear plant
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan, just 320 kilometres east of Fukushima nuclear plant. The American scientific agency, which tracks natural disasters around the world, said the quake occurred 281 kilometres from Kamaishi ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Japan near Fukushima
A powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan near Fukushima. Details of the extent of the damage have not yet emerged regarding the quake which hit 281km South East of Kamaishi. A similar earthquake back in 2011 killed 15,894 ... ( read original story ...)
Families of Japan war dead to pray for fallen US soldiers
Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II have headed to Hawaii to pay respects to American war dead. Nippon Izokukai, the Bereaved Family Association of Japan, is sending 36 children, grandchildren and other relatives of fallen ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Open: Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy enter quarters
World No.8 Srikanth, who clinched back-to-back titles in Indonesia and Australia this year, demolished Hong Kong's Hu Yun 21-12 21-11 within half an hour to make it to the final eight of the $325,000 Japan Open Super Series, on Thursday. The Indian will ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off Japan
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has hit off the coast of Japan, the US Geological Survey says. The agency's website says the quake hit early on Thursday about 283 kilometres southeast of the city of Kamaishi and more than 322km east of Fukushima. A massive 2011 ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Governor Koike’s allies seek to repeat local success in Japan national poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - With no platform, no party leader and not even a formal name, a nascent political party linked to popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is preparing for a snap election that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to call for next ... ( read original story ...)
Money dispute leads wife to break husband’s 54 violins
NAGOYA: The estranged wife of a former violin maker broke into his house and destroyed 54 violins and 70 bows after they fought over payments for child support, prosecutors said on Tuesday. In the opening session of the trial of Qin Yue at the Nagoya ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Rubber : “YOKOHAMA Forever Forest” Project Plants 500,000th Tree
Tokyo-The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., is pleased to announce that its 'YOKOHAMA Forever Forest' project, started back in 2007, achieved its goal of 500,000 trees planted on September 14. Chairman Tadanobu Nagumo, President Masataka Yamaishi joined others to ... ( read original story ...)