Tag: Yokohama

An Osaka Prefectural Police officer was slapped with a 10% pay cut for a month after he was found to have moonlighted as a driver for two sex ... ( read original story ...)

The reports explain that on April 17, 2016 -- following several days of earthquakes on the Japanese island of Kyushu, and heavy rains and winds that carried over into the Tokyo area -- people near ... ( read original story ...)

Weather officials are urging caution against icy roads after snow fell in wide areas of the Kanto-Koshin region that includes Tokyo. They are also warning of possible avalanches in mountainous areas ... ( read original story ...)

In the weeks before I visited Tokyo in early November, I began to notice images of the city appearing on my Instagram feed with a curious regularity: the glittering lights of Shibuya Crossing, rare ... ( read original story ...)

#animeexplanation #animesensei #animeexplained He Jumps From The Sky To Save His Girlfriend New Anime Explained A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to ... ( read original story ...)

Zookeepers of a zoo in Japan believe they have finally figured out how a female gibbon got pregnant despite living alone in her cage. In February 2021, staff at the Kujukushima Zoo & Botanical Garden ... ( read original story ...)

ROME — As Britain, Italy and Japan embark on an ambitious plan to build a new fighter by 2035, the U.K.’s defense minister has warned of disastrous consequences should any of the partners get “cold ... ( read original story ...)

The Edo-Tokyo Museum has launched Hyper Edohaku, an app for interacting with the museum's collection and learning about the Edo period's history and culture. ( read original story ...)

Osaka – Osaka Prefecture said Friday that it has suspended ad giant Dentsu from bidding for contracts related to the prefectural government for a year. The move by the prefecture comes as a former ... ( read original story ...)

Similarities between the calamity unfolding this week in Turkey and Syria and the triple disaster that hit northern Japan in 2011 may offer a glimpse of what the region could face in the years ahead. They're linked by the sheer enormity of the collective ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese capital is blanketed with snow on Friday as an icy low pressure system hits the country's central Honshu island. No more heavy snow is forecast for the weekend - Japan's weather agency ... ( read original story ...)

By Harry Robertson and Ankur Banerjee LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Japanese markets reacted with shock on Friday to news that the government had picked academic Kazuo Ueda to be the next central bank governor, but investors quickly snapped up the yen and sold bonds on expectations he will end years of super-easy monetary policy. Whether, when ...

Powerful Quakes Link Turkey, Japan and Syria in Suffering TOKYO (AP) — Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having survived. What's left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society? ( read original story ...)

Haruhiko Kuroda leaves a mixed legacy after 10 years running the Bank of Japan (BOJ), achieving prices rises after decades of deflation and anaemic growth but without engineering durable expansion fuelled by domestic demand. ( read original story ...)

The yen climbed on Friday as investors responded to news of the likely appointment of academic Kazuo Ueda as the next Bank of Japan governor. The Japanese currency climbed 0.5 per cent to 130.9 to the dollar, as markets judged Ueda as likely to mark a ... ( read original story ...)

DoubleDragon Corp., the listed property developer of tycoons Edgar “Injap” Sia II and Tony Tan Caktiong, tapped the contractor that built the Chitose International Airport near Saporro, Hokkaido for ... ( read original story ...)