Domino’s has dropped plans to use reindeer to deliver pizza in snowy Hokkaido this holiday season because the franchise found it difficult to control the animals. Instead, it said it will introduce “reindeer-ornamented bikes” at some outlets. Since the pizza delivery chain announced the deer-delivery plan last month, it has trained reindeer at Domino Pizza […]
Opened in 2011, the SCMAGLEV and Railway Park is the railway museum of Central Japan Railways (JR Central). The museum seeks to educate visitors on the advances in high speed rail in Japan and displays a number of actual trains including historic steam locomotives, world record setting experimental shinkansen (bullet train) and the latest magnetic […]
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 40-year-old man who is suspected of sending a variety of garbage through the mail to former classmates in a revenge plot for bullying, reports TV Asahi (Nov. 30). On 70 occasions between August of last year and last month, Shigeta Miura, a resident of Musashino City, allegedly mailed rotten […]
A mountain climber was killed after being hit by an avalanche in Japan’s Toyama Prefecture on Tuesday. Police say the avalanche occurred at around 8:30 AM in the Tateyama mountain range at an altitude of 2,500 meters. It hit 3 climbers out of a party of 6, all of whom were male members of a […]
A highly contagious avian flu outbreak has been confirmed at poultry farms in Niigata and Aomori prefectures, forcing local governments to cull more than 300,000 chickens and ducks on Tuesday. The cases are the first of a highly pathogenic H5 strain of the virus in domestic poultry since January 2015 when it was detected in […]
Anti-drug authorities have arrested 22 residents of Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, for suspected marijuana possession. Those arrested are residents of Omachi City and neighboring Ikeda Town and are aged from 27 to 64. Health ministry officials in charge of narcotics control say they searched homes and warehouses with local police on Wednesday. They seized 8 […]
Snow fell unusually early in Tokyo and surrounding areas on Thursday, affected by a strong cold air mass. Central Tokyo marked its first snowfall in November in 54 years. Japan’s Meteorological Agency says a cold air mass of below minus 3 degrees Celsius is hovering about 1,500 meters above the northern and eastern parts of […]
Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. will develop homes for the lower middle class in the Philippines with local real estate giant Century Properties Group. The partners will build about 4,000 townhouse-style homes on a 26-hectare lot near the capital. The total project cost is estimated at around 10 billion yen ($88.9 million). Each two-story home […]
Contest was to see who could eat 5 rice balls the fastest. A man died three days after choking during a rice ball eating contest, the event organizer said on Tuesday. The 28-year-old contestant was hospitalized after he choked on his fifth rice ball and lost consciousness during the event held on November 13 by […]
Japanese weather officials say seismic activity is continuing off Fukushima Prefecture after a magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck the area early Tuesday morning. They are urging people to stay alert for another possible tremor of the same strength which could strike within the next 7 days. The officials say they had observed 85 quakes registering 1 or […]
