As population ages, Japan's convenience stores find future in funerals
It might escape the notice of a passerby that Davius Living Yamato, a one-story building standing unassumingly on a street in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a funeral parlor. Little about the exterior of this no-frills facility suggests anything funereal inside. In fact, if you mistook it ...
The government asks 20 companies to staff a panel that will brainstorm ideas to help Japan catch up to its rivals in the new aviation race.
Yamato and DeNA test autonomous delivery system in Japan
On Tuesday, Yamato Transport Co. and DeNA Co. tested an autonomous vehicle delivery service to gauge the potential of self-driving technology in the field of logistics. The two Tokyo-based companies conducted the experiment in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, in which an electric car navigated through a ...
Hiroshima students working to re-create Yamato for virtual battleship tour
High school students in Hiroshima are using virtual reality technology to create lifelike tours of the sunken battleship Yamato this summer.
Parcel delivery service Yamato set to hike delivery rates from Oct. 1
Yamato Holdings Co., the nation's leading door-to-door parcel delivery provider, has announced that it will increase basic shipping fees for its door-to-door parcel delivery service from Oct. 1. It will be Yamato's first rate hike in 27 years in a move triggered by a serious ...
Japanese city in a dance over pop band that criticized ruling LDP
The municipal government in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, is retroactively withdrawing support for a public event after an all-girl pop group performed a song that criticized the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
A memorial service was held Tuesday in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, for about 3,000 crew members who died when the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato was sunk by U.S. forces on April 7, 1945, during World War II. About 300 people, including relatives of the war ...
Floating fortress Musashi, symbol of Japan's naval ambitions, now a war grave
The super-dreadnought that once served as the flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy has been found lying in sections in the dark ocean depths of the Philippines, 70 years after the end of World War II. Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced on March 3 ...
In postwar Japan, a U.S. Army intelligence officer is found dead in his Tokyo apartment with a bullet in his skull. Military policemen declare it to be a suicide but CIA agent Ralph Carnaby and his Japanese-American sidekick, Dan Morita, uncover evidence that suggests ...
About 40 percent of Yamato's 3,924 courier service bases failed to follow the company's procedure for managing the temperature of packages that need to be kept refrigerated or frozen, many of them during the busy summer season. The company released the outcome of an in-house ...
