Blockchain System’s Potential to Protect Children’s Learning and Eliminate Child Labor Chocolate for a break from work, or cocoa for a breather. What if the cacao used as a raw material was harvested by children who worked in exchange for the time they were supposed to spend at school? In order to protect children’s educational…
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Kumamoto Tramway conducts a test ride of the Visa touch payment system
Kumamoto Tramway (Kumamoto City Transportation Bureau) is a member of Sumitomo Mitsui Card, Visa Worldwa The experiment is scheduled to run from July 7 to March 31, 2023, and will involve six ultra-low-floor cars and 10 standard cars. Anyone who uses a Visa-branded service that accepts touch payment can use this service, and payment is…
JR East campaign to win NewDays coffee and JRE POINT
JR East and JR East Cross Station will hold the “52 (go-to) Off-Peak Commuting & Ekinka Campaign” for those who commute off-peak. The campaign offers 5,200 prizes to be won by drawing among first-time users of the Off-Peak Point Service and repeat users of Off-Peak Commute and Ekinka shopping. Participation is possible by entering the…
YUMIHA OKINAWA, all-suite villas opens in Onna Village, Okinawa
GOTAS will hold the grand opening of “YUMIHA OKINAWA” (Onna Village, Okinawa Prefecture), a hotel that uses original fragrances to create space, on July 1. This 18-unit all-suite villa-type hotel is surrounded by the forests of Onna Village. All food and beverages in the hotel are included (all-inclusive), and the hotel offers butler service, which…
Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station “Sea Urchin, Sea Urchin and Sea Clam Ajiwai Bento
The “Sea Urchin, Sea Urchin, and Sea Clam Aji-Kurabe Bento” purchased at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station is an ekiben bento produced by Yoshidaya, a long-established bento shop in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture. The most impressive feature of this lunch box, which has a slightly extravagant name, is that you can enjoy three types of sea urchin dishes…
Itami Airport Fully automates boarding bridges
Kansai Airport will introduce a fully automatic system at Itami Airport (Osaka International Airport) that uses AI to fully automatically attach boarding bridges. The period is from June 27 to June 30, 2024. The system uses AI and image recognition technology to recognize aircraft doors and complete the installation of boarding bridges at the touch…
Awesome Store, ranking of best-selling items in the first half of 2022
Awesome has released a ranking of items sold on the Awesome Store. The ranking is divided into four categories: “Kitchen,” “Daily Necessities,” “Pets,” and “Food,” and ranked from No. 1 to No. 3. The top item in the kitchen category was “Microfiber Kitchen Sponge 5P. Second place went to “Bento Cup” and third to “Onigiri…
“JR East Hotel Mets Omori” opens on September 28
Japan Hotel, operator of JR East Hotels, will open JR East Hotel Mets Omori (Atre Omori, 1-6-16 Omori-Kita, Ota-ku, Tokyo), directly connected to the central ticket gate of JR Omori Station, on September 28. Reservations for the hotel will be accepted from 10:00 a.m. on June 24. The design of the hotel is based on…
PRODI Soda Gun, a portable soda maker: now available from Ishii Sports and Yodobashi.com
Moririn launched the PRODI Soda Gun, a portable carbonated beverage maker, at nine Ishii Sports stores and Yodobashi.com. The PRODI Soda Gun is a compact, portable carbonated beverage maker that requires no power supply, produces up to approximately 30 liters of carbonated water from a single 30L gas bottle, and can carbonate any beverage you…
KeePer Giken to sell the bicycle industry’s first “KeePer Coating” at 25 Trek-owned stores nationwide.
KeePer Giken, which provides car coating and car wash services, began selling KeePer Coating at all 25 directly managed stores in Japan operated by Trek Japan, a subsidiary of American bicycle manufacturer TREK Bicycle Corporation. The KeePer Coating service repels mud, grease, and other contaminants from the car body with its strong water repellency, and…