Outdoor theme park Legoland Japan on Thursday started selling one-day family tickets that offer discounts of up to 25 percent in response to complaints about higher fees compared with other parks. The discount tickets will be available to visitors by the end of this ...
More than 20 foreigners at an immigration facility in Nagoya have launched a hunger strike, protesting long detention periods and their conditions, their supporters said, as more than 20 foreign detainees continued a separate hunger strike at an immigration facility in Tokyo. At the ...
The total number of visitors to Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya reached 2,408,400 in fiscal 2016, the second-highest level in the last 20 years. The park credits Shabani, a male gorilla famed for his good looks, for its success in maintaining the ...
In Aichi Prefecture, the nation’s top producing region of jump ropes, efforts are being made to promote the sport at home and abroad. Japan Jump Rope Project (JJRP), a nonprofit organization based in Nagoya’s Moriyama Ward, has applied to designate July 8 as Rope ...
Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura easily won re-election to a fourth term Sunday on popular support for his tax reduction policies. Kawamura, 68, who leads a local political party called Tax Cut Japan, ran against two other candidates — Masateru Iwaki, a 62-year-old former deputy ...
At her first test shoot in Los Angeles, Tsubasa Watanabe was surprised by the outfit the photographer was asking her to wear: Hanging from the fingers of his outstretched hand was a pair of thong underwear. “This is the outfit?” she asked. “Yup,” he ...
Fans across the nation expressed shock Monday night after hearing beloved figure skater Mao Asada, the 26-year-old long-time face of Japanese figure skating, was retiring as a competitor. “I’ll never forget how she won a silver medal in the (2010) Vancouver Olympics,” said 19-year-old ...
Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura, 68, and two other people have filed to run in the April 23 mayoral election. The challengers are lawyer Masateru Iwaki, 62, a former deputy mayor of Nagoya, and former corporate employee Toshimitsu Ota, 68. Kawamura is backed by his ...
A 21-year-old former Nagoya University student has appealed a district court ruling that sentenced her to life in prison over the 2014 murder of an elderly woman and the attempted murders of two teens when she was in high school, court officials said Thursday. ...
When a 21-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison on March 24 for killing an elderly woman, the Nagoya District Court acknowledged that the defendant’s mental illness — a developmental and bipolar disorder — was part of the reason for the heinous crime ...
Japan’s first outdoor Legoland park opened in Nagoya on Saturday, raising hopes that more tourists will visit the area and deliver an economic boom to the nation’s third-largest business region. With children’s tickets priced higher than those at Tokyo Disneyland, Legoland Japan offers various ...
A dye house in Nagoya that specializes in kuro montsukizome, the dyeing of black-crested formal kimono that has been practiced since the Edo Period (1603 to 1868), is working on selling stoles and T-shirts that make use of the same technology. Yamakatsu Senko Co., ...
