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Food Safety News
April 27, 2018
Initially, Hong Kong prohibited imports of vegetables, fruits, and milk products from Japan's Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Chiba, and Gunma prefectures. Later imports could proceed, but only with certificates issued by Japan attesting that radiation levels for I-131, Caesium (Cs)-134, and Cs-137 did notÃâà...
Asahi Shimbun
April 26, 2018
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--The SuperKEKB particle accelerator has achieved its first particle collisions after one month in operation, marking a big step in the quest to discover how the universe was formed immediately after its birth. The collisions of electrons and their antimatter counterpart positronsÃâà...
Asahi Shimbun
April 20, 2018
Video footage shot using a drone captures the glory of blue nemophila flowers in full bloom at the Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, on April 19. (Shinnosuke Ito and ... HITACHINAKA, Ibaraki Prefecture--A sea of blue greets visitors to the Hitachi Seaside Park here. An estimated 4.5Ãâà...
The Japan Times
April 19, 2018
Ibaraki Prefecture is characterized by having both industry and agriculture, not only highly developed, but also highly in balance. The birthplace of Hitachi, Ltd., Ibaraki boasts clusters of Japan's leading manufacturing companies, and it has been the launching point for many global corporations.
LNG World Shipping
April 17, 2018
The new link boosted the utility's high-pressure pipeline network to 950 km, mainly around the Tokyo metropolitan area. Tokyo Gas has also embarked on a new pipeline project in tandem with the construction of the second Hitachi LNG tank, and similar completion dates are planned. The 87 km IbarakiÃâà...
Japan Today
April 17, 2018
Foreigners held in a Japanese immigration detention centre have launched a hunger strike over the death of a detainee, drawing fresh attention to conditions under which they are held. An Indian man died in an apparent suicide on Friday at the East Japan Immigration Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture.
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
April 16, 2018
IBARAKI (TR) – Ibaraki Prefectural Police have arrested a 47-year-old reverend for allegedly stalking his former girlfriend with a smartphone messaging application, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Apr. 16). Since the start of April, Keisuke Higashida, a resident of Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, allegedly sent 77Ãâà...
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
April 2, 2018
OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested four persons for assaulting a man, including pouring boiling liquid over him, during a party in Ibaraki City over the weekend, reports the Asahi Shimbun (Apr. 2). Between 7:00 p.m. on Friday and 11:00 p.m. the following day, Michiko Tanaka, 38,Ãâà...
Archaeology
March 26, 2018
IBARAKI, JAPAN—According to a report in The Asahi Shimbun, nine pieces of unglazed earthenware dating to the Yayoi Pottery Culture period (300 B.C.–A.D. 300) were uncovered at the Nakagawara site on the island of Honshu. When the pieces were fitted together, researchers from the Ibaraki MunicipalÃâà...
Asahi Shimbun
March 24, 2018
IBARAKI, Osaka Prefecture--Shards of 2,000-year-old earthenware unearthed at an archaeological site here depict a group of wooden structures that are the first such clearly decipherable representations to be found in Japan. The artifact, discovered at the Nakagawara site, offers precious clues about theÃâà...
Asahi Shimbun
March 20, 2018
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--A museum here spent about 25 million yen ($234,000) for a new showpiece that offers visitors a three-dimensional geological map of Japan in 194 colors. The Geological Museum of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology replaced a miniatureÃâà...
Nikkei West
March 19, 2018
Tomine can trace his ancestors on his father's side to the city of Itako in Ibaraki Prefecture (State) on the coast west of Tokyo. His mother's relatives came from Kyushu Island at Japan's southern tip. Both his father Susumu Tomine and his mother Tomoe were imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation CenterÃâà...
Ratings Alerts (blog)
March 19, 2018
Global and Chinese Ibaraki Disease Vaccines Industry, 2018 Market Research Report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the global Ibaraki Disease Vaccines Market with a focus on the major countries/markets in the world like North America, EU, APAC and ROW. The reportÃâà...
The Mainichi
March 17, 2018
Blossoming Japanese apricot trees are seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter at Kairakuen garden, which generally is regarded as one of the three most outstanding gardens in Japan, in the city of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on March 13, 2018. Some 3,000 trees in around 100 varieties are approaching fullÃâà...
The Mainichi
March 16, 2018
After that, the sample will be brought to a Japan Atomic Energy Agency facility in Ibaraki Prefecture for analysis. A government source told the Mainichi Shimbun that sampling the suspected fuel debris is different from the debris collection specified in the road map, and stressed that extracting samplesÃâà...
The Mainichi
March 7, 2018
Astronaut Koichi Wakata, right, wears the grand prize winning spacesuit design, while astronaut Takuya Onishi shows off another winning entry in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on March 7, 2018. (Mainichi). TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- An awards ceremony for a spacesuit design contest for students wasÃâà...
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
March 6, 2018
Police in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, said 120 million yen in cash was stolen from the office of a shipping company early Sunday. According to police, the robbery occurred sometime before 2:30 a.m. Fuji TV reported that an employee in an adjacent building heard the sound of doors opening and closing,Ãâà...
The Mainichi
March 5, 2018
According to Ibaraki Prefectural Police's Tsukubakita Police Station, the cash was kept separately in rooms on the first and second floors of the Noboru Unyu company in Tsukuba as operating capital. The office had been vacant since around 5 p.m. on March 3 while the service door and some of windowsÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 4, 2018
... first in the rankings of little-known good places to live, followed by Akabane. Wako in Saitama Prefecture also made the list. The online survey, conducted almost every year since 2010, drew responses from 7,000 people from 20 to 49 residing in Tokyo and adjacent Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba and IbarakiÃâà...
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
March 4, 2018
IBARAKI (TR) – Ibaraki Prefectural Police have launched an investigation following the discovery of a male corpse in a rice field in Itako City on Sunday, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Mar. 5). At around 8:10 a.m., a farmer checking the field found the body, which had turned partially skeletal, lying face-up in aÃâà...
Japan Today
March 4, 2018
Police in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, said 120 million yen in cash was stolen from the office of a shipping company early Sunday. According to police, the robbery occurred sometime before 2:30 a.m. Fuji TV reported that an employee in an adjacent building heard the sound of doors opening and closing,Ãâà...
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
March 3, 2018
IBARAKI (TR) – Ibaraki Prefectural Police have launched an investigation after 120 million yen was stolen from a shipping company in Tsukuba City early Sunday, reports NHK (Mar. 4). At just past 2:30 a.m., an employee at the company alerted police about a break-in on the second floor of the office of theÃâà...
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
February 27, 2018
OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 57-year-old man for allegedly leaving the corpse of his older brother the residence they shared in Ibaraki City, reports Mainichi Broadcasting System (Feb. 21). According to police, Yoshihiro Saigo has been accused of leaving the corpse of his brotherÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 27, 2018
The authorities confirmed the highest number of illegal workers in Ibaraki Prefecture, with 102 such cases. Another 95 were caught in Aichi Prefecture. The largest numbers of the detainees worked in food processing, agriculture and construction. Kimizuka said that immigration bureaus in Tokyo andÃâà...
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
February 27, 2018
IBARAKI (TR) – Ibaraki Prefectural Police have arrested a 57-year-old man after the body of his mother, who later died, was found in their residence in Ishioka City on Monday. The corpse of his brother was also found in the residence, reports Yomiuri Shimbun (Feb. 26). At around 9:30 a.m., Takeshi KiuchiÃâà...
Lexology
February 14, 2018
The Federal Circuit held that substantial evidence supported the Board's finding that Ibaraki prior art reference disclosed torque-based comparisons in view of the express disclosure of power-based comparisons in the prior art, the mathematical relationship between power, torque and speed, and credibleÃâà...
Nippon.com
February 7, 2018
The Tanaka family's farm is an hour's train journey northeast from Tokyo, in Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture. The father, Yasuyuki, graduated from an agricultural university and then worked as a volunteer overseas. After he returned to Japan he came to Ishioka in 2000, where he aimed to establish himself as aÃâà...
Japan Today
February 6, 2018
Three men broke into the home of an executive of a car sales and repair company in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, and stole 3 million yen, police said Wednesday. According to police, the incident occurred at around 5 p.m. Tuesday. Fuji TV reported that three men forced their way into the apartment andÃâà...
gasworld
February 2, 2018
The existing two footholds in Tsukuba and Yokosuka will be integrated into a new He centre to be newly constructed in Ami Industrial Complex in Ibaraki Prefecture. The centre, which will be completed in April 2019, is aimed at enhancing the production efficiency with the sluggish circumstance of demandÃâà...
The Japan Times
January 31, 2018
In the project, soil waste from eastern and northeastern areas of the country other than Fukushima Prefecture will be covered with uncontaminated soil at sites in the village of Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, and the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, with radioactivity levels around the locations being measured.
Japan Today
December 31, 1999
As you'd guess from the name, Hitachi Seaside Park is located on the coast of the city of Hitachi, in Ibaraki Prefecture. Ibaraki s one of those parts of Japan that foreign travelers often pass straight through as they make their way from Tokyo up to the northeastern Tohoku region, but Hitachi Seaside Park isÃâà...
SeafoodSource (blog)
December 31, 1999
It started with a Chinese factory, importing and selling its products directly in Japan, then went on to open an second factory in Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The Chinese factory ships frozen products to Japan, while the domestic facility offers chilled products. Dohsuinakatani Suisan Co.
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
December 31, 1999
IBARAKI (TR) – Ibaraki Prefectural Police have launched an investigation after two corpses were found in a burned-out vehicle in Kamisu City on Wednesday, reports TBS News (Mar. 28). At around 5:50 a.m., a male fisherman alerted police about “people inside a vehicle on fire” on a road abutting aÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
TOKYO, March 30 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck Japan's Ibaraki prefecture on Friday, Japan Meteorological Agency said. The temblor occurred at 8:17 a.m. local time, with the epicenter at a latitude of 36.4 degrees north and a longitude of 140.6 degrees east and atÃâà...
The Japan Times
December 31, 1999
The logo for the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a sleepy cartoon mouse curled up next to our planet. It is apt in two ways. First, while sleep is familiar to everyone in the world — and indeed to all animals — there is still a lot we don't know about it.
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