Tag: Yokohama

In late 2022 Kishida Fumio, Japan’s prime minister, unveiled new reforms that build on the efforts of his predecessors, Abe Shinzo and Suga Yoshihide, to strengthen Japan’s defences and build more ... ( read original story ...)

Bullet trains connecting Tokyo and Osaka resumed full service on Tuesday, after an accident involving railway maintenance vehicles ca ... ( read original story ...)

A team of researchers at the Nagoya Institute of technology is now providing six-day forecasts of the number of people expected to be taken to the hospital by ambulance due to heatstroke each day. ( read original story ...)

Russia's foreign ministry said Tokyo's decision to conduct military activities with NATO forces off the coast of Russia's Far East was unacceptable. ( read original story ...)

Veteran environmentalist Paul Watson was arrested in Greenland on Sunday and faces possible extradition to Japan allegedly over anti-whaling activities in the Antarctic years ago, his organization ... ( read original story ...)

Foreign and defence ministers from Japan and the United States will hold security talks in Japan on July 28 in an effort to push forward what U.S. President Joe Biden called a historic upgrade in the ... ( read original story ...)

Yokozuna Terunofuji showed his calm to defeat komusubi Daieisho and make it nine wins from nine at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament ... ( read original story ...)

The bullet train service on the Tokaido Shinkansen line is currently suspending operations on both the inbound and ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Olympics tennis silver medalist Marketa Vondrousova withdrew from the Paris Games on Monday because of a hand injury. The 25-year-old from the Czech Republic won Wimbledon last year despite ... ( read original story ...)

Goodyear Tire & Rubber will sell its Off-the-Road equipment tire business to Japan's Yokohama Rubber for $905 million in cash, it said on Monday, as part of a drive to streamline its business. ( read original story ...)

AKRON — Goodyear has agreed to sell it off-the-road tire business to Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC) in a $905 million cash sale that significantly bolsters the Japanese tire company's OTR unit for the ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Yokohama Rubber Co. agreed to acquire Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s Off-the-Road tire business for $905 million as part of the Japanese manufacturer’s global expansion plan. The OTR ... ( read original story ...)

FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Japan Airlines has ordered 10 Boeing 787-9 aircraft and agreed options for 10 more, the two companies said at a joint media briefing at the Farnborough Airshow on Monday. The ten firm orders are together worth around $1.47 ... ( read original story ...)

Goodyear Tire & Rubber plans to sell its off-the-road tire business to Yokohama Rubber for $905 million as the Japanese peer aims to strengthen its business for mining and construction machinery. ( read original story ...)

For these four Chicago-area athletes — all of whom made their Olympic debuts during the COVID-hobbled Tokyo Games — Paris offers a second chance of sorts. It promises a fortnight filled with ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Vietnamese man has been arrested for allegedly stealing golf club heads while sorting check-in luggage as a worker at Tokyo's Haneda airport, police said Monday. Tran Nhat Tai, 33, ... ( read original story ...)