The industrial tourism business in Nagoya will have a new mission in fiscal 2015. Museums and activity centers will begin tracking visitors’ nationalities in order to target them better. The city hopes to draw more tourists by offering announcements and printed information in foreign ...
Being pulled over by the police can be an unsettling experience, but officers in Nagoya are stopping pedestrians and cyclists to praise their “traffic etiquette.” As part of an effort to reduce traffic fatalities in Aichi Prefecture, which leads the nation in that category, ...
The Nagoya YWCA School of Japanese Language in Aichi Prefecture has added a “Bambina” course to its curriculum. Targeted at foreign parents with preschool children, the lessons cover expressions useful for daily life with a focus on those helpful for looking after toddlers in ...
From meeting Pikachu in Fukushima to a laughter ritual in Osaka, here are dozens of ways to make sure you make the most of the festive season.
A road covered with snow-like white foam surprised pedestrians in Naka Ward, Nagoya, after a fire extinguishing system was accidentally discharged in a parking garage. According to the Aichi Prefectural Police and the local fire department, the white foam flowed onto the street near ...
A three-day international conference aimed at promoting education for sustainable development (ESD) opened Monday in Nagoya with government officials and researchers from more than 100 countries attending. In an opening speech to the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, co-hosted by the Japanese ...
An eatery favored by Nobel laureate Hiroshi Amano is offering customers a blue cocktail in his honor. The Nagoya University professor was a joint winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on creating blue light-emitting diodes, the basis for the ...
Mount Ontake, a volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures, erupted on Saturday, spewing ash and small rocks into the air, leaving at least 16 people unconscious and 30 others seriously injured, and stranding more than 40 on the mountain, officials and media said. Following ...
Dozens of hydrogen stations are expected to be built across the country to pave the way for the advent of fuel cell vehicles, but many of the facilities planned are clustered around a few key cities. In Aichi Prefecture, construction is underway on seven ...
More than a dozen steelworkers were injured when a coke oven blew up at a Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. factory in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture, police said Wednesday. An emergency call at about 12:30 p.m. said that “a coke oven exploded” at the ...
Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) filed a formal application Tuesday with the transport ministry for approval to build a magnetically levitated train line linking Tokyo and Nagoya. The company is expected to start construction as early as October following approval by the Land, ...
A new group has been established in the Tokai region to help foreign residents get educational, medical and welfare services in Japan. Tokai Daily Life Support Center for Foreigners mainly focuses on assisting aging Chinese returnees and helping foreign children learn Japanese. The center ...
