News Japan Kanto: Japan's Convenience Store Woman has lessons for retail tech
Japanese konbini (convenience stores), with ... Yaoko, a grocery market chain with 172 outlets in Kanto area, empowers part-time workers, often local mothers, whom they call "partners," by ...
News Japan Kanto: Kanto railways to offer three-day pass for foreign nationals during 2020 Games
East Japan Railway Co. and 25 other railway operators in the Kanto area said Thursday they will sell a three-day train pass for foreign visitors during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The ...
News Japan Kanto: Japan’s Rainy Season Raises Fresh Weather Warnings for Torrential Rains
Although the predicted stormy weather has settled down, heavy rains were expected to pick up on Sunday, battering Kyushu and the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo. The Japan Meteorological Agency ...
News Japan Kanto: Chill effect hits Kanto region; July sees only few hours of sun
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the answer is blowing in the wind. Wide areas of the Kanto-Koshin and Tohoku regions have been seeing atypical summer weather in recent days owing to a ...
News Japan Kanto: Nostalgia and hope as Japan’s emperor hands over throne
When Japan wakes up on May 1, it will be the first day of the ... Mr. Watanabe’s journey down his family’s memory lane reflects the ebb and flow of a nation: the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, which ...
News Japan Kanto: Turbulence injures 3 on Alitalia flight to Japan
Japanese weather officials had issued a thunderstorm advisory for wide areas in the Kanto district. The transport ministry is investigating.
News Japan Kanto: Lafcadio Hearn's 'Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan': Reveling in the remote and mystical — review
In this 1894 collection of his earliest essays on Japan following his arrival in 1890, we discover Lafcadio Hearn’s first impressions of being surrounded by bewildering ideographs, his first visits to ...
News Japan Kanto: New Japanese Emperor Naruhito ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne
TOKYO — Japan’s Chrysanthemum Throne has a new occupant ... But Naotaka Kimizuka, a professor at Kanto Gakuin University in Kanagawa, said it was important Naruhito build on his father’s legacy by ...
News Japan Kanto: 2020 Tokyo Olympics sailing venue would be an evacuation nightmare if a tsunami struck, says Japanese disaster expert
Athletes taking part in sailing races during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and thousands of spectators could be killed or injured if an offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami that hits the venue, according to one of Japan’s foremost crisis management experts. Nobuaki Shimizu, a professor at Aichi Prefectural
News Japan Kanto: Hitachi Receives Order for Two Voltage-Sourced Frequency Converters for Chubu Electric Power Higashi Shimizu Substation
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, Hitachi) today announced that it received an order from Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. (Chubu Electric) for the delivery of two Voltage-Sourced Frequency Converters (300,000 kW each; 1FC(1) and 3FC) for Higashi Shimizu Substation, equipment installation construction work and tests (this Project). In this Project, the system to be delivered uses Voltage Source Converter (VSC) High-Voltage Direct Current Transmission (HVDC)(2) power transmission technology, e...
News Japan Kanto: Hirobumi & Partners Launches Perspectives in Philanthropy, Social Entrepreneurship
TOKYO, KANTO, JAPAN, April 24, 2019 / EINPresswire.com / -- Hirobumi & Partners , a registered investment advisory firm independent of any financial institution that offers a full line-up of ...
News Japan Kanto: A whole new ballgame: Yokohama DeNA BayStars get an upgrade
Since that last Japan Series title, they have finished last in the Central ... As for the Tokyo area, the four other teams that call Kanto “home” have long been overshadowed by the Giants, who are ...
News Japan Kanto: Integrated urban flood risk management: Learning from the Japanese experience
While floods were not an uncommon occurrence in Japan, the Great Kanto Flood of 1742 was the worst flood in the country’s early modern era, and the first flood disaster in its largest urban area. It ...
News Japan Kanto: Best time to visit Japan: Guide to the best month, season and things to see and do in Japan
However, Japan is hugely seasonal, with weather that can range from ... In August men balance bamboo poles strung with lanterns on their heads at the Akita Kanto Matsuri; the Kodo Drummers perform ...
