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A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds of up to 320 kph. At least 91 ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
In what is being touted as a local first, a new roundabout is in operation in the Towa district of Iida, Nagano Prefecture, in a bid to ease congestion and eliminate the need for traffic lights. The Towa roundabout, which went into operation Tuesday, ...
Running away with a win against a Memphis team in disarray after trading away top scorer Rudy Gay, the Oklahoma City Thunder found a way to come unhinged, too.
A program run by a nonprofit organization in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, to hire homeless people and help them get back on their feet is bearing fruit a year and a half after its inception. Benriya, a group of handymen operated by the NPO Nowami’s ...
The Misonoza theater, long a fixture in Naka Ward, Nagoya, will be closed down at the end of March. Highly regarded as a symbol of the art world in Nagoya, its basement houses the only library for live theater in the Chubu region. The ...
“Hinoki” cypress from Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture will be used to rebuild Shinto shrines damaged during the deadly March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, whose monster tsunami devastated the Tohoku region. The shrine conducts the Shikinen Sengu ceremony once every 20 years to ...
Software developer Daiichi Computer Resource Co. has compiled a book of common Burmese expressions titled “Active Myanmar” that can also be downloaded on cellphones. The Nagoya-based company has established an office specializing in software development in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city and commercial hub, and ...
Opticians in Aichi Prefecture are cooperating to gather and donate used reading glasses to people in Thailand, where many seniors have to put up with poor eyesight because they can’t afford to buy spectacles. These efforts to collect used spectacles and distribute them in ...
After deciding not to run in this weekend’s Lower House poll, Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura’s status as the “face of the election” has faded and his frustration is clearly growing. Kawamura, 64, heads the Nagoya-based Genzei Nippon (Tax Reduction Japan) party and helped steer ...
Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) is once again taking on the challenge of breaking into the formidable Nagoya-meshi sector, where dishes popular in or unique to the city command a loyal following in the coveted “ekiben” (train station boxed lunch). JR Tokai’s strategy ...
Public transit firms in the Chubu region are getting stars in their eyes as they turn to a new strategy to attract customers. There has been an increasing number of movies and TV shows that use scenes with train stations, trains and airports as ...
Inhale. Exhale. The sound of deep breathing echoes in the Main Hall of Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin. The glittering golden walls in the Naka Ward temple contrast sharply with the bright red carpet. Some women are doing yoga exercises to find relaxation in their busy ...
As Filipino Anamaria Ogahara can testify, going to a hospital in a country whose language you don’t speak fluently can be a highly challenging and unnerving experience. Fears about the language barrier prevented Ogahara, a resident in Motosu in Gifu Prefecture, from visiting a ...