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Uber joins hands with Fuji Taxi, sealing first Japan deal under new, pro-regulator approach
The deal lets customers hail cabs using the ride-sharing firm’s app in Nagoya, the nation’s third-most populous city, strengthening its position in one of the world’s largest taxi markets.
Aichi man recalls abuse his family faced when branded spies before World War II
It was when Hisao Mesaki, now 85, returned to Japan from Saipan in early 1941 with his parents and siblings that an offhand remark to his new classmates aroused suspicion he was from a family of spies. They had been living in Saipan since the ...
Tweet requests public understanding for ambulance crews' need to hydrate
Amid a sharp rise in ambulance dispatches caused by this summer's deadly heat waves, a Twitter post by the Nagoya Municipal Fire Department is attracting attention for asking the public to show patience with the ambulance crews' convenience store breaks. On July 26, the department's ...
A crack found in the undercarriage of a shinkansen train on Dec. 11 last year may have started widening the previous day, the Japan Transport Safety Board said Thursday. The board is investigating the causes of the crack, which left the shinkansen undercarriage on the ...
Alleged arsonist arrested after escaping from central Japan hospital
Police on Wednesday arrested an alleged arsonist who fled from a hospital in Nagoya, where he had been held for a psychiatric evaluation since March, police said. Yasuhiro Ogura, 57, was caught at a home appliance store in the city after the police launched an ...
Mayor's plan to re-create Nagoya Castle without elevators draws ire of barrier-free advocates
A plan to restore iconic Nagoya Castle to attract more tourists is facing criticism as the mayor aims to re-create the original 17th century structure with no elevators for people with disabilities. Citing problems with quake resistance, the Nagoya Municipal Government will demolish the concrete ...
Japan court orders damages be paid for wrongful spousal abuse claim
A court ordered an estranged wife and the Aichi Prefectural Government to pay a combined ¥550,000 in damages to the woman's husband for incorrectly declaring him a perpetrator of domestic violence. The man's wife, in her 40s and a resident of Aichi Prefecture, sought help ...
Studio Ghibli plans to open new theme park near Nagoya by 2022
The fantasy world of Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki will come to life as a theme park, set to open in central Japan in 2022, the regional government said Wednesday. Miyazaki is the cofounder of Studio Ghibli, the nation's premier animation studio, and is renowned internationally ...
Eiji Teruya, a third-generation Japanese-Brazilian and son of a migrant worker, has passed the bar exam and is getting ready to go to work as a lawyer in Japan, possibly the first Brazilian to do so. Teruya's accomplishment has spread in the Brazilian community by ...
Men wearing gold, full-body suits and costume hats, themed as taiyaki (a waffle-like cake shaped like a fish, typically filled with red bean paste), have started to appear in central Nagoya, attracting the attention of pedestrians. The men call themselves the Shachihoko Boys — ...
Nagoya High Court upholds life sentence for ax-wielding strangler who 'wanted to see people die'
The Nagoya High Court agrees that the deranged woman who murdered a senior citizen in 2014 after attempting to poison two university classmates in 2012 is liable for her crimes.
City in Aichi promotes cactus-based foods in bid to save production as farmers gray
A major cactus-producing city in Aichi Prefecture is developing food products using a locally grown variety in hope of raising the profile of the plant amid a decline in farmers. Broiled pork and prickly pear on skewers, Madeleine cake made using prickly pear powder and ...
