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Aichi Prefecture

11 hurt in expressway pileups

NAGOYA--Eleven people were hurt in multiple pileups Monday morning involving 57 vehicles on the Chuo Expressway in Aichi and Gifu prefectures, police said. The westbound lanes between the Toki Junction in Gifu Prefecture and...

Maglev Shinkansen to cut straight through Southern Alps

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) decided its planned magnetically levitated (maglev) Shinkansen, capable of traveling 500 kph, will link Tokyo and Nagoya in a straight route through the Southern J...

Lullatone: Catch the Bedtime Beat!

Lullatone are a musical duo based in Nagoya comprised of the husband and wife team of Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Tomida. They make sweet, sleepy, sine-wave-riddled songs with whispered lyrics, poppy melodies, and parse,...

As need grows, food banks extend their reach

BY MIKA OMURA, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN With a growing number of Japanese struggling to make ends meet, food charities play an important role providing needy people with one of life's necessities. The so-called food bank movement--in...

Khodorkovsky's Treatment Indicative of Wider Abuse

We are very glad to see this excellent article from Eric Watkins in the Oil and Gas Journal: Let's Not Forget Khodorkovsky The fate of Russian oilman Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been written about before in this space and he has...

Ikea opens first distribution center

NAGOYA (Kyodo) Swedish furniture retail giant Ikea on Wednesday opened its first distribution center in Japan near the port of Nagoya as it aims to expand nationwide. The center, which has 55,000 sq. meters of floor space, is...

Slide in land prices

Commercial land prices fell an average 0.8 percent in the year ended June 30 — following their first upturn in 16 years the year before — while the 1.2 percent average decline in residential land prices for the same period...

Sports › Nagoya stays on top in J-League

Monday 29th September, 06:00 AM JST NAGOYA — Nagoya Grampus held onto top spot in the J-League with a 1-1 draw against Urawa Reds on Sunday, while a 2-0 win over Shimizu S-Pulse provided Kashima Antlers with a perfect...

Hakuho caps tournament with 14 wins

Mongolian grand champion Hakuho completed his 14th win to claim the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday for his eighth championship title. The 23-year-old easily beat Kotomitsuki by giving the Japanese opponent powerful...

Hakuho maintains lead at Autumn sumo

Mongolian grand champion Hakuho defeated Chiyotaikai on Thursday to maintain sole possession of the lead at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament. In the day's final bout at Ryogoku Kokugikan, Hakuho used an arm throw at the...

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