Wakayama Prefecture

Osaka governor unveils plan to scrap Itami airport in '35

OSAKA (Kyodo) The Osaka Prefectural Government has come up with a plan that calls for scrapping Osaka airport at Itami in 2035 when maglev trains are scheduled to start running between Tokyo and Osaka, officials said Thursday....

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Mitsubishi Chemical to absorb rayon firm

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. said Thursday it will turn major synthetic fiber maker Mitsubishi Rayon Co. into a wholly owned company by March in a deal that could be worth around ¥200 billion. The move will reunite the...

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Baseball: Free agent catcher Hashimoto to join Yokohama

Free agent catcher Tasuku Hashimoto will likely join the Yokohama BayStars after the two sides held talks in a Yokohama hotel on Thursday. ''I haven't received any offers from the other teams. I'm leaning toward joining...

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Ozawa lashes out with scathing remarks on Christianity

Top Japan pol calls Christianity self-righteous, Islam hardly better A top politician in Japan’s ruling Democratic Party has praised Buddhism while calling Christianity “exclusive and self-righteous” and Islam only somewhat...

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Reportlinker Adds Anticoagulants - A Global Market Review

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A Global Market Review http://www.reportlinker.com/p0164225/Anticoagulants---A-Global-Market-Review.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=prnewswire The world anticoagulants...

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Conceptual Cafe

This could have been a very interesting cafe project, if completed. In 2008 Japanese architect Hiroki Tanabe developed a small café house of 62 sqm — a two-story complex which has an elongated U shape. On the first floor there...

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Osaka Gov. Hashimoto to be sued again over 2007 TV comment

Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto will be sued again later this month for defamation over his remark on a 2007 TV show criticizing defense lawyers for a man accused of killing a woman and her daughter in 1999 in Yamaguchi Prefecture,...

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Prototype 03 - Exhibition in Tokyo

Exhibition in Tokyo An exhibition of prototype works from product designers, furniture designers, architects, and other creatives. This collection of prototypes and in-process design work illustrates the discovery, frustration...

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Tokyu looking to dump part of stake in JAL

Tokyu Corp., the top shareholder in struggling Japan Airlines Corp., is taking steps toward selling at least some of its holdings, sources said. Holding a stake in JAL "no longer offers synergies," a Tokyu executive said Monday.

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Japan doomsday fears premature

Prophecies that Japan is heading for a fiscal doomsday are so prolific they could almost be accurate. Yet, the fact that the government finances its debt from savings in its own currency renders irrelevant many comparisons with...

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