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SHIZUOKA

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 24, 2021
Kishida and coalition suffer by-election blow ahead of Lower House poll
The ruling LDP triumphed in its Yamaguchi stronghold while an opposition-backed candidate won in Shizuoka, in the first tests of the Fumio Kishida administration since it was inaugurated earlier this month.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 24, 2021
Voting underway in Japan by-elections a week before general election
Media polls for the Oct. 31 general election suggest that the LDP and its coalition partner, Komeito, will retain their majority in the House of Representatives.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 4, 2021
Transgender man in Japan wants switch recognized without surgery
A transgender man in central Japan filed a request Monday with a court to switch gender in his family registry without having sex reassignment surgery as currently required by law.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2021
Survivors sue landowners over deadly July mudslide in central Japan
Traveling nearly two kilometers, around 56,000 cubic meters of soil destroyed 131 homes and left 26 people dead and one missing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2021
Fire alarms go off at Hamaoka nuclear plant in Shizuoka, operator says
The operator confirmed smoke within a building that houses a reactor turbine in the currently suspended plant.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 2, 2021
Cycling fans finally get up close at Izu velodrome
A 50% capacity of up to 1,800 is permitted at the track cycling venue up in the forested hills near Mount Fuji, outside Tokyo, where tougher COVID-19 restrictions apply.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Explainer
Jul 26, 2021
In times of disaster, Japan's hazard maps provide crucial information
July's deadly mudslide in Shizuoka has put renewed focus on hazard maps for areas at risk from floods, landslides and other natural catastrophes.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 24, 2021
The clear-cut actions that led to a disaster in Atami
News outlets are looking at the role companies played in exacerbating the mudslides that engulfed more than 130 homes in the city of Atami.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2021
Suga vows all-out recovery efforts in visit to site of fatal mudslide
The prime minister also called for speeding up research on linear rainbands that are known to bring torrential downpours.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2021
Shizuoka hotels take in evacuees from deadly landslide
More than 500 people continue to take shelter following a massive mudslide a week ago in central Japan, but not in school gymnasiums as is usually the case for evacuees.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jul 9, 2021
Improper soil accumulation suspected of leading to Japan mudslide
Local authorities say an estimated 54,000 cubic meters of soil which had been brought to a mountainside by a real estate management firm exacerbated the disaster.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2021
Risk of another calamity hampers search for mudslide victims in Japan
Intermittent rain and the risk of a secondary disaster posed challenges for rescue workers racing against time in the city of Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2021
Mount Fuji opens to climbers for summer after closure amid virus
With virus countermeasures in place, the most popular of the four routes up the 3,776-meter volcano was opened on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the world heritage site.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 21, 2021
Shinkansen driver leaves cockpit for toilet as train travels at 150 kph
The driver, who was experiencing abdominal pain, handed over to a conductor who was not licensed to drive the train.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 2, 2021
Possible tornadoes damage 92 buildings in central Japan
While some utility poles in the city tilted precariously, Chubu Electric Power Grid Co. said as many as 3,200 households in the prefecture experienced a power outage after the strong winds.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 8, 2021
COVID-19 brings sister cities closer together
Japan and the United States share more sister city relationships with each other than with any other country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 16, 2020
Synthesized drum roll, please: Roland back on the bourse in Tokyo
Roland saw its shares open at u00a52,954 on the first day of trading on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 4.7% below the IPO price of u00a53,100.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 19, 2020
JR Central uses test ride to show off updated maglev shinkansen
The new magnetically levitated bullet train service will link Tokyo and Osaka at speeds of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2020
Mount Fuji observes first snowfall of the season
Monday's snowfall, the first this autumn, occurred two days earlier than usual and 24 days earlier than last year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2020
Telework forces a rethink of working and living in Tokyo
A drastic shift to telework is putting a brake on the capital's ever-growing population, which may ease overconcentration in the metropolitan area.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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