The Bangkok Metropolitan Region, consisting of the Bangkok Special Municipality and five surrounding provinces, is the political and economic center of Thailand, and the Metropolitan Waterworks Corporation operated the water supply system in the Bangkok Special Municipality as well as two surrounding provinces. The maximum water demand in the region was 5.13 million cubic meters/day…
Month: June 2022
Cajamarca Water Project
In the rural cities of Cajamarca, located in the mountainous region of northern Peru, water and sewage facilities were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s, but since then, there has been no significant investment in new construction or renewal of facilities. As a result, by the late 2000s, the facilities were aging and did not…
Haripur Power Plant Project
In Bangladesh, demand for electricity was increasing in line with robust economic growth, but power generation capacity was not keeping pace with this growth in demand. Therefore, the government of Bangladesh had set a national goal of “providing a stable supply of affordable electricity to all citizens by 2020,” and was working on capital investment….
50 Years of JICA Cooperation with Bangladesh and Future Prospects
Conference Title: 50 Years of JICA Bangladesh Cooperation and Future Prospects Date: Friday, June 10, 2022 Organized by: Embassy of Bangladesh in Tokyo Place: Tokyo Bongo Bondo Auditorium (Embassy of Bangladesh in Tokyo) Main Participants Congratulatory Greeting Fatima Yasmin (video, ERD Undersecretary) Mari Akiyama (Country Development Cooperation Division 2, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign…
Sumitomo Fudosan Villa Fontaine offers special accommodation plans including “Motto Tokyo”
inumo Shiba Koen by Villa Fontaine (1-6-6 Shiba Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo) and Villa Fontaine Grand Tokyo Ariake (2-1-5 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo), operated by Sumitomo Fudosan Villa Fontaine, are offering special offers to guests nationwide as well as plans for the “More Tokyo” tourism promotion program in Tokyo. The hotel is also offering special accommodation plans…
[Asami Araki’s Life in Paris] Fertilizer-Free Vegetable Gardens Are Gaining Popularity in France
More and more people around me are growing crops or want to grow crops without depending on pesticides and chemical fertilizers. I was one of the curious ones, so I first went to Permae, a salon focusing on permaculture and sustainable agriculture. This salon was held in March, the second time this year. Goods, books,…
3,000 yen discount: Japan Camper Rental Center offers “Tokyo Citizen Discount”
Japan Camper Rental Center will offer a “Camper Tokyo Discount” from June 17 to July 7. Tokyo residents who rent a campervan from Tokyo C.R.C. will receive a 3,000 yen discount off the rental fee per person. If the total rental fee is 50,000 yen or less, the maximum discount is 9,000 yen; if the…
United Airlines Special Discount : KIX – Guam
United Airlines has launched a special limited-time economy class round-trip fare for the Kansai – Guam route, which will resume service on July 1, for 5,500 yen. The sales period is from June 17 to June 30 at 11:59 p.m., and the applicable period of travel is from July 1 to July 31 (until departure…
“The Complete Guide to Shinkansen Photography” now available from Ikaros Publishing
Ikaros Publishing, an Impress Group company that handles media business in the aviation and railroad fields, will release “Shinkansen Photography Complete Guide” by Michinobu Otsuru on June 21. The book is priced at 2,200 yen. How can we take beautiful and cool pictures of the Shinkansen bullet train, which is one of the most difficult…
Supporting Ukrain through finance : Signing of Loan Agreement
On June 17, Junichi Yamada, Vice President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Sergiy Marchenko, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, signed a Loan Agreement (L/A) to add 65 billion yen to the “Emergency Economic Reconstruction and Development Policy Loan”. The total amount of yen loan for this project is 78 billion yen. This…