The Japanese Olympic Committee said Wednesday it has received a report from the Aichi prefectural and Nagoya municipal governments confirming their agreement to seek to co-host the 2026 Asian Games. With the submission of the document under the names of Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura ...
They slip away each time. Two large alligator gars, nonnative carnivorous fish, have evaded capture in the vast moat of Nagoya Castle ever since the first one was found lurking there seven years ago. A second one was spotted in the depths three years ...
The Nagoya District Court on Wednesday ordered that two men who were exposed to the August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima should be officially recognized as hibakusha, overturning the government’s rejection of their certification bid despite standards eased in recent years. The court, however, ...
The Japanese Olympic Committee on Tuesday approved Aichi Prefecture and its capital Nagoya as joint candidate hosts for the 2026 Asian Games. The JOC executive board met in Tokyo and decided the two local governments will have to submit an official document attesting that ...
A little over a month has passed since the smartphone game “Pokemon Go” was released in Japan, but people are still found wandering around Nagoya’s Tsuruma Park — a magnet for its players — until late at night. Pokemon fever has ebbed slightly, but ...
Foreign students working part-time in izakaya (pubs) are rising rapidly in the Chubu region amid the increasing tendency of many young Japanese to avoid drunk customers. This is especially true in Nagoya, where many fancy commercial facilities popping up around JR Nagoya Station are ...
A passenger jet being developed by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. aborted its second attempt to head to the United States on Sunday when an air conditioning problem that thwarted its first bid reoccurred. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet, which has been mired in a series of ...
Toyota Motor Corp.’s famed quality control is being adopted by companies outside the auto sector and is now spreading into medical care. Nagoya University Hospital in Aichi Prefecture, where Toyota is headquartered, has started a program in collaboration with the Toyota group that aims ...
The first columbarium in the Chubu region to use an automated cinerary box conveyor system opened last month in Nagoya as the popularity of tombs that do not require much maintenance grows. In Tokyo, the number of such columbaria, where many sets of remains ...
People who have stage fright often find their hands shaking, face turning red and minds going blank when they have to make a public speech. Making matters worse, a lot of people suffering from performance anxiety are actually required to speak in front of ...
A celebrity western lowland gorilla from Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya is involved in another promotional blitz — this time a picture book for children has been published to raise public awareness of the need to protect endangered species. Dubbed an ikemen, ...
A Vietnamese man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of killing a colleague near their apartment in Nagoya. Nguyen Van Duc, 21, is suspected of stabbing Duong Van Chien, 30, his Vietnamese roommate, in the neck with a knife on the grounds of the apartment ...
