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Why are so many of the world’s oldest companies in Japan?
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SLATE
The oldest running hotel in operation is not in Paris or London or Rome. It is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, in Yamanashi, Japan: a hot-spring hotel called Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, which has existed since the year 705. The second-oldest is another Japanese hot-springs ho...
The oldest running hotel in operation is not in Paris or London or Rome. It is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, in Yamanashi, Japan: a hot-spring hotel called Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, which has existed since the year 705. The second-oldest is another Japanese hot-springs ho...
- October 30, 2014
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Japan's gotta have baseball back in the Olympics! Tokyo 2020 squeeze play?
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CSMONITOR
With 12 Japanese MLB players having appeared in the World Series – Nori Aoki of the Kansas City Royals is the latest – avid baseball fans across East Asia want the sport restored after two Olympic shutouts.
Japanese baseball fans are some of the world’s most diehard. Cities across Jap...
With 12 Japanese MLB players having appeared in the World Series – Nori Aoki of the Kansas City Royals is the latest – avid baseball fans across East Asia want the sport restored after two Olympic shutouts.
Japanese baseball fans are some of the world’s most diehard. Cities across Jap...
- October 30, 2014
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Nestle Japan hiring 1000 robots
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SMH
Food giant Nestle is planning to hire 1000 robots as sales clerks at stores across Japan.
The first batch of the chatty humanoid called Pepper will report to work by the end of the year at outlets that sell coffee capsules and home espresso machines.
"From December, they will start selling co...
Food giant Nestle is planning to hire 1000 robots as sales clerks at stores across Japan.
The first batch of the chatty humanoid called Pepper will report to work by the end of the year at outlets that sell coffee capsules and home espresso machines.
"From December, they will start selling co...
- October 30, 2014
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Japan IT Week Autumn 2014
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BUSINESSWIRE
Japan IT Week Autumn is the autumn edition of Japan IT Week Spring http://www.japan-it.jp/en/, known as Japan’s largest show for IT and the world’s largest for software and apps. The show will be composed of 7 independent exhibitions gathering the latest IT technologies and solutions...
Japan IT Week Autumn is the autumn edition of Japan IT Week Spring http://www.japan-it.jp/en/, known as Japan’s largest show for IT and the world’s largest for software and apps. The show will be composed of 7 independent exhibitions gathering the latest IT technologies and solutions...
- October 29, 2014
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2,860 Public Schools in Japan at Risk from Massive Tsunami
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JIJI
As many as 2,860 public schools in Japan are at risk of being affected by a tsunami of a magnitude estimated as possible, a government survey revealed Tuesday.
They included 1,442 elementary schools and 671 junior high schools, according to the survey conducted by the education ministry in M...
As many as 2,860 public schools in Japan are at risk of being affected by a tsunami of a magnitude estimated as possible, a government survey revealed Tuesday.
They included 1,442 elementary schools and 671 junior high schools, according to the survey conducted by the education ministry in M...
- October 29, 2014
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Canada falls to Japan in international women's friendly
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CBC
Second-half substitute Aya Sameshima scored in stoppage time after Sophie Schmidt had tied it late as Japan defeated Canada 3-2 on Tuesday in a wild international women's soccer friendly.
Sameshima jumped on a mistake in defence and moved in alone on Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe befo...
Second-half substitute Aya Sameshima scored in stoppage time after Sophie Schmidt had tied it late as Japan defeated Canada 3-2 on Tuesday in a wild international women's soccer friendly.
Sameshima jumped on a mistake in defence and moved in alone on Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe befo...
- October 29, 2014
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Japan nuclear plant gets approval to restart, over three years after Fukushima
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REUTERS
A town in southwest Japan became the first to approve the restart of a nuclear power station on Tuesday, a step forward in Japan's fraught process of reviving an industry left idled by the Fukushima catastrophe in 2011.
Satsumasendai, a town of 100,000 that hosts the two-reactor Kyushu ...
A town in southwest Japan became the first to approve the restart of a nuclear power station on Tuesday, a step forward in Japan's fraught process of reviving an industry left idled by the Fukushima catastrophe in 2011.
Satsumasendai, a town of 100,000 that hosts the two-reactor Kyushu ...
- October 29, 2014
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McDonald’s Japan Halloween Burger
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JAPAN-AUSTRALIA
McDonald’s Japan has joined the club by releasing a black burger for Halloween. Hot on the heels of the recent Black Kuro Burger from Burger King Japan comes the new Ika Sumi Burger from McDonald’s.
McDonald’s own dark burger is just in time for Halloween. The burger is called t...
McDonald’s Japan has joined the club by releasing a black burger for Halloween. Hot on the heels of the recent Black Kuro Burger from Burger King Japan comes the new Ika Sumi Burger from McDonald’s.
McDonald’s own dark burger is just in time for Halloween. The burger is called t...
- October 28, 2014
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Nearly 1300 people help make Japan's longest tuna roll
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ABC7NEWS
Residents of Kesennuma now hold the distinction of creating the country's longest tuna roll.
Almost 1,300 people, including tourists, helped make the giant sushi roll. They used 187 pounds of tuna, 1,200 pounds of rice and 1,700 sheets of seaweed to make the creation that stretches 1,000...
Residents of Kesennuma now hold the distinction of creating the country's longest tuna roll.
Almost 1,300 people, including tourists, helped make the giant sushi roll. They used 187 pounds of tuna, 1,200 pounds of rice and 1,700 sheets of seaweed to make the creation that stretches 1,000...
- October 28, 2014
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Japan business confidence hits 18-month low in Oct
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GULF TIMES
Japanese business confidence slipped to the lowest in 1-1/2 years in October and it is seen struggling to rebound, a Reuters poll showed, a further sign Tokyo may be forced to offer fresh policy support to recharge an economy ailing from a sales tax hike.
The loss of confidence follo...
Japanese business confidence slipped to the lowest in 1-1/2 years in October and it is seen struggling to rebound, a Reuters poll showed, a further sign Tokyo may be forced to offer fresh policy support to recharge an economy ailing from a sales tax hike.
The loss of confidence follo...
- October 24, 2014
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