Tag: Yokohama

An earthquake struck northeastern Japan on Saturday, hitting areas devastated by the 2011 disaster and generating a tsunami of 1 meter. ( read original story ...)

The epicenter of a 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan late Saturday afternoon, local time. (USGS) Daily activities across portions of Japan were disrupted late Saturday afternoon when a significant ... ( read original story ...)

Olympic organisers meet Saturday for talks expected to bar overseas fans from this summer's pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games, in a bid to reduce virus risks and win over a sceptical public. The move would ... ( read original story ...)

Olympic Organising Committee is leaning towards barring foreign volunteers from helping at the delayed Games this summer, amid public concerns over the coronavirus, Kyodo news service reported on ... ( read original story ...)

After each jump during competition, Australian high jumper Nicola McDermott does something unusual. Having returned to her kitbag and retrieved a notepad, McDermott proceeds to rate her performance in ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Tire Corp. has revamped its websites for consumer and commercial audiences — and — to improve the customer experience and make it easier to find tire information. Among the new features on ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama’s Geolandar CV G058, a grand touring tyre for crossover SUVs, was among the winners at the recent Chicago Athenaeum 2020 Good Design Awards. The award-winning tyre is part of Yokohama’s ... ( read original story ...)

Hiroshi Sasaki, the Games' creative director, suggested that Japanese celeb Naomi Watanabe could perform dressed as a pig during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Tokyo organizers and the International Olympic Committee are poised to make it official that most fans from abroad will be prohibited from attending the postponed Olympics because of the ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned its second Maya (Improved Atago)-class Aegis-equipped destroyer in a ceremony held on 19 March in ... ( read original story ...)

Group14 Technologies, a global provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, announced the company's international expansion with new offices in Yokohama, Japan and Seoul, ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka’s recent victory at the Australian Open, which made her one of only seven players, male or female, to earn four Grand Slam titles, solidifies her role as the clear heir to Serena ... ( read original story ...)

And home-products maker Muji slashed the price of a storage box by 35%. In Japan, the world’s deflation champion, America’s talk about inflation heating up is a “fire on a distant shore,” as the ... ( read original story ...)

A trade deal among fifteen economies in the Asia Pacific would boost Japan's economy by 2.7% when its benefits fully appear, a government estimate showed on Friday. Fifteen Asia-Pacific nations ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan has scrapped its pledge to buy an average of ¥6tn a year in equities as the central bank edged away from aggressive monetary stimulus in favour of a more “sustainable” policy. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s central bank will ease its support for the stock market. I.R.S. urges taxpayers not to amend already-filed returns to take new tax break. Bias is a barrier for women and people of color even ... ( read original story ...)