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PARKING

Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 26, 2018
Japanese parking firms see bonanza in Bangkok's traffic jams
Scarce parking space in Bangkok is aggravating chronic traffic congestion in the Thai capital, but some Japanese parking companies are taking a look at the positive side of the traffic nightmare.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Jun 4, 2017
Parking the car can drive you crazy
In the 1990s when we rented an old house in Saitama Prefecture, we needed a parking space since we had a car at the time. There was none on the property and so we talked the landlord into tearing down a decrepit prefabricated storage shed that stood next to the house. He did, and then, at our own expense, we had a carport erected on the newly vacant lot.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 25, 2016
Couple caught driving around with dead boy in trunk likely received child care allowances
The Osaka couple are the latest to draw attention to child abuse dished out by parents struggling with financial problems.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 24, 2016
Osaka couple held after police find missing son's corpse in car trunk
Police acting on a tip from a child welfare center arrested a man and a woman from Osaka's Higashisumiyoshi Ward after they allegedly placed the dead body of the woman's 1-year-old son inside a cooler in a car trunk.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 15, 2016
New parking lot for tourist buses will hopefully reduce congestion in Ginza
Parking lot operator Times24 Co. will open a bus parking lot Tuesday near Tokyo's Ginza neighborhood to help reduce congestion caused by coaches carrying foreign tourists to the shopping district.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 17, 2015
Girl's bound body found in Osaka parking lot
The body of a girl — arms tied behind her back, her face nearly completely covered with duct tape and with over 30 knife wounds — was recently discovered in an Osaka Prefecture parking lot, and a security camera recorded two suspicious vehicles stopping at the site shortly before the body was found.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jul 4, 2015
Reality bites
Is this your vehicle?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2014
Private parking lots find mass niche
Finding a parking space at a popular tourist spot or downtown is no mean feat, especially on weekends or holidays. But for a limited time, owners of homes or condominiums are letting people park in such locations to make a quick yen in tough economic times.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2014
Negligence in parking carousel death suspected
An elderly woman who died Thursday after apparently being crushed in a mechanical parking garage in Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture, has triggered a police safety review of such facilities amid allegations of negligence.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Dec 7, 2013
Kids know best
Child: I want to be a bus driver when I grow up.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 28, 2013
Highway rest areas get retail-centric makeover
Operators of expressway rest areas are refurbishing their sites in often unusual and creative ways to draw customers and increase their earnings.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 16, 2012
Outlet malls another American concept that may not work in Japan
The craze for auto-centered outlet malls may have stalled before it even began.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 23, 2011
Auto-correct: Police getting more serious with parking scofflaws
Police are finding new ways to get traffic violators attention.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 14, 2009
Who pays for parking?
Why people who don't own cars have to subsidize the expensive parking lots used by weekend drivers?
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.
Philippines wants U.S. and Japan to take over rail deal eyed by China
Delfin Lorenzana
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
At least one dead, seven missing after two MSDF helicopters crash off Izu Islands
Contact was lost with the two SH-60K helicopters, each carrying four crew, in an area east of Torishima in the Izu Island chain during anti-submarine warfare training Saturday night.
Tokyo Rainbow Pride lights up capital as organizers celebrate 30 years
Rainbow flags were flown through the capital's busy Shibuya and Harajuku areas for Tokyo Rainbow Pride events this weekend as organizers hailed 30 years of one of Asia's largest LGBTQ celebrations.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.

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