Willows Hotel Osaka Shin-Imamiya (2-1-24, Ebisu-Higashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka City), operated by Nihon Unisto, will hold a lunar eclipse observation event and a hands-on experience with the YAOKI private lunar robot in conjunction with the total lunar eclipse on November 8. A total lunar eclipse will be observable throughout Japan for the first time in 3…
Toyama Airport distributes coupons for round-trip expressway + air travel by personal car from outside the prefecture, worth 1,500 yen.
The Association for the Development of Toyama Airport and the Toyama Airport International Route Usage Promotion Council will conduct a campaign offering a coupon coupon worth 1,500 yen that can be used at stores within the airport to all passengers who take a round-trip scheduled flight from Toyama Airport to Toyama Airport via the expressway…
New Zealand-based storage container brand Sistema adds six new series to its lineup. For lunch boxes and food storage.
Newell Brands Japan Home & Kitchen Division has launched six series (Clip-it Plus, Ultra, Brilliance, Nest-it, To Go, and Lunch) from Sistema, a storage container brand from New Zealand. Brilliance Nest-it Lunch is the first series to be launched in Japan. Brilliance” (¥1,280-¥3,080) is Sistema’s most functional series, with a tight seal that prevents leakage…
Special Advisor Kitaoka Delivers JICA Chair Special Lecture at Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology and Warsaw University of Economics in Poland
summary JICA Chair Special Lecture at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 Location: Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology Main participants: Shinichi Kitaoka, Special Advisor to JICA, Akio Miyajima, Ambassador of Japan to Poland, President of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, and about 200 students with a strong interest in…
Grassroots technical cooperation comes to fruition! How Sapporo Beer “Inca’s Door” was made by utilizing nut pomace
Grassroots technical cooperation comes to fruition! How Sapporo Beer “Inca’s Door” was made by utilizing nut pomace The Grassroots Technical Cooperation Project is an international cooperation activity proposed by NGOs, universities, private companies, etc., and implemented in cooperation with JICA. This December marks the 20th anniversary of the program. On October 18, Sapporo Beer launched…
Riddle-solving event with rent-a-car service in Tabirai, Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa. Three types of tour routes in Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa.
Pam, operator of the car rental reservation site “Tabirai Rent-a-Car,” will hold “Mysterious Mystery Solving Drive: A Journey to Retrace Memories,” a hands-on event to enjoy touring the city in a rental car, in Tokyo and three prefectures. The event will run from November 1 to April 30, 2023 (excluding year-end and New Year holidays)….
Cospa offers three new “Hanasaku Iroha” goods for the 10th Yuwaku Bonbori Festival
Cospa will release three new “Hanasaku Iroha” goods from 2D Cospa. In conjunction with the “Yuwaku Bonbori Festival” to be held on October 22 in the Kanazawa area, the sacred place of the work, as an actual festival that started in the TV anime “Hanasaku Iroha,” “Yunosagi Station Acrylic Multi Key Ring” (880 yen), “Zip…
Yamaguchi Prefecture, Yachiyo, Otters, Toyo Bijin, and other sake breweries with nationwide travel support.
Yamaguchi Prefecture is promoting the prefecture’s many sake breweries for its nationwide travel support program, “Traveling Yamaguchi Discount Plus,” which began on October 11, 2012. According to the prefecture, “Sake is produced by taking advantage of the rice and water grown in the rich land. It may not be well known that Yamaguchi Prefecture is…
Toei Subway’s “Comprehensive Drill in Case of Emergency” simulating an earthquake with an intensity of 6 on the Japanese seismic scale. We guided the evacuation of passengers, collaborated with the fire and emergency services, and observed the recovery process of the Toei Subway.
The comprehensive training has been held once a year on a rotating basis on each line, but was temporarily suspended from 2020 to 2021 due to the Corona disaster and international sporting events, making this the first time in three years that such training has been held. In 2023, the training is scheduled to be…
JR West and SoftBank press release on the “Automated, Convoy BRT” undergoing verification experiment.
JR West (West Japan Railway Company) and SOFTBANK Corp. have opened to the press a demonstration test of the “Automated and Formation Driving BRT” being conducted on a dedicated test course in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture. The two companies started a demonstration test in October 2021 in which three vehicles (a continuous bus, a large…