Predawn fire cancels Japan's rocket launch to ISS
KYODO NEWS - 32 minutes ago - 06:28 | Japan, AllA fire broke out near a rocket launch pad on Tanegashima Island in southwestern Japan early Wednesday, prompting the cancelation of an unmann…
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These Tweets Show the Havoc Wreaked on Tokyo by Typhoon Faxai Yesterday
Posts tagged #台風15号 (Typhoon No.15) looked like something out of a disaster movie. Of course, the whole show was documented on Japan’s favorite social media platform, Twitter, where users shared…
The $500 Grape
SNA (Kanazawa) — Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture has been developing the high-quality Ruby Roman Grapes for fourteen years. This year, a single bunch of grapes sold for 1.2 million yen, working…
Okura Hotel to Reopen with Replica of Iconic Lobby
the new Hotel Okura’s lobby is a replica of it’s former | all photos by Satoshi NagareWhen Tokyo’s Okura Hotel announced that their main wing would be demolished in 2015 and be rebuilt, there was pub…
Get up Early to Experience Sumo Training in Tokyo
How to see sumo training in TokyoWatching sumo training for freeFor the true cheapos out there (who don’t mind potentially being left out in the rain, literally), there’s a free option: the Arashio s…
Hiroto Saikawa to resign as head of Nissan
Nissan chief executive officer Hiroto Saikawa, shown here during a news conference in Japan in March, announced Monday that he is resigning, effective Sept. 16. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License…
Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us
As lasting as the resulting blindness in that eye was Hearn’s terrible self-consciousness about his disfigured appearance. Somehow, Hearn reached this stranger’s door, where he was handed a…
The debris-strewn aftermath of typhoon Faxai in Japan
Among those reported dead include an 87-year-old man who was hit by a falling tree in Chiba prefecture, according to the Japan Times. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images Scaffoldings, hit by t…
Watch Japan's Giant US-2 Amphibious Flying Boat Land In An Amazingly Short Distance
It was the largest amphibious flying boat in production up until China bested it with their AG600 amphibian that first flew in 2017. But that aircraft isn't yet operationally deployed, the …
Panasonic’s modular Toughbook 55 lasts up to 20 hours on a charge
But today the Kadoma, Japan-based company really shook things up with a new flagship — the Toughbook 55, successor to the Toughbook 54 — that’s almost entirely modular. That’s standard stuf…