Baby Carriage Rental Service “Babycal” First Introduced in Aomori, Yamagata, and Niigata; Available in All East Japan Railway Prefectures

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JR East will begin offering the “BabyCal” stroller rental service in Aomori, Yamagata, and Niigata prefectures on December 15. With this service, it will be available in all prefectures in the JR East area. BabyCal is a reservation-based stroller rental service that can be used on the go, based on the concept of “creating a…

Hokkaido Kamikawa-cho, Hokkaido x Columbia, “17L Cooler Tote,” a return gift for taxpayers in hometown, limited to 250 pieces.

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Kamikawa Town, Hokkaido, in collaboration with Columbia Sportswear Japan, with which the town signed a comprehensive partnership agreement in 2021, has developed and started accepting applications for the “Festival Woods 17L Cooler Tote,” a tax return gift for the hometown. The product will be sold at “Rakuten Furusato Tax” and “Satofuru” in limited quantities of…

Experience the digital twin of the International Space Station (ISS) in real time. Space Work Metaverse

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Mitsui Fudosan and Nihonbashi Muromachi Area Management will hold “HELLO SPACE WORK! NIHONBASHI 2022″ to experience space work in Nihonbashi. NIHONBASHI 2022” from December 12 to 23. THE ISS METAVERSE Experience the viewpoint of an astronaut in real time in a JAXA-supervised metaverse space. The tour simulates the current flight position and day/night conditions of…

Prefectural Road No. 41 Naniwa-suji closed to vehicular traffic for the Tokaido Line branch subway line conversion and new Umekita Station, near JR Osaka Loop Line Fukushima Station.

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Osaka City is aiming to switch underground and open a new station in spring 2023 for the JR Tokaido Line branch line subway conversion project and the Umekita new station installation project. The line will begin operating on an underground route on February 13, 2023, and the level crossing located at the intersection with the…

Signing of a loan agreement for a waste power generation and treatment project in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam (overseas investment and loan): Contributing to the realization of a recycling-oriented economy by reducing the risk of environmental pollution

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The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) provided a loan of up to US$7 million to the Binh Duong Water Environment Joint Stock Company (BIWASE) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on December 9. The agreement has been signed. The loan will contribute to the “Initiative for Overseas Investment and Loan to ASEAN” (*1) announced by…

Special tour of Nagashima/Igawa Dam by Oigawa Railway and Igawa Line. Sneak into the inside of the dam, which is usually closed to the public.

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Oigawa Railway, in cooperation with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Nagashima Dam and Chubu Electric Power Company’s Shizuoka Hydro Center, will conduct special tours of undisclosed areas. The tour will take visitors on the Oigawa Railway between Senzu Station and Igawa Station to Nagashima Dam (Kawane Honmachi, Haibara-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture), the only…

Mitsui Outlet Park to Start Selling Fukubukuro (Lucky Bags) by the End of the Year! A “fortune-telling grab bag” containing a trip or gourmet food worth 300,000 yen will also be available for pre-sale before the end of the year and on New Year’s Day after the New Year.

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Mitsui Outlet facilities (Mitsui Fudosan and Mitsui Fudosan Commercial Management) will pre-sell “fukubukuro” (goodie bags) from December 26 to 31. They will also be on sale after the new year from January 1 to 3, 2023. Details of pre-sale products are available on the websites of Sapporo Kitahiroshima, Iruma, Makuhari, Kisarazu, Tama Minami-Osawa, Yokohama Bayside,…