Toyota to Hold 'Drive Kingdom' Event in Kanazawa Jul 3, 2009
in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture on August 1 and 2 ... The Kanazawa event will enable participants to experience environmentally considerate driving through test drives of the recently released third-generation Prius on public roads. (JCN Network, Japan)
BoJ chief sees 'mild recovery' for Japan May 25, 2009
As Japanese companies reduce their inventory stockpiles, "the negative factors for the economy will recede," he told reporters in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, adding that growth may turn positive in the current quarter to June. Japan's worst post-war recession is starting to ease, Shirakawa said earlier in the day in a speech to the BoJ's Kanazawa branch. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Bank of Japan Governor Shirakawa Sees `Mild Recovery' as Output Improves May 25, 2009
The sharp decline in economic and financial conditions in Japan and abroad since last autumn is starting to level out, and there is a prospect of a mild recovery ahead, Shirakawa said today in a in Kanazawa, central Japan. Shirakawa said severe economic conditions will continue as the world adjusts from an excess of debt and consumption built up during the mid-2000s, a period marked by low inflation and interest rates. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Hokuriku Electric Wins Appeal Against Shutdown of Shika Nuclear Reactor Mar 18, 2009
The Kanazawa district court ordered the 1,206-megawatt unit halted in March 2006 ... In 2006, the Kanazawa District Court ruled that the utility should consider a large-scale tremor and take into account an offshore fault, 44 kilometers in length, in its quake assessment. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Local Weather Feb 8, 2009
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 02/08/09 07:15:32 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 89% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
Key Culprit In Stroke Brain Cell Damage Identified Mar 29, 2008
Other Emory authors included postdoctoral fellow Sung-Wuk Jang, PhD, research specialists Xia Liu and Dongmei Cheng, assistant professor of human genetics Junmin Peng, PhD and professor of human genetics Xiao-jiang Li, PhD. Contributions also came from researchers at Harvard Medical School, University of Dundee in Scotland and Kanazawa University in Japan. The National Institutes of Health funded the research. (Science Daily)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
New technology Dec 17, 2007
Allard first got interested in sushi when he spent time in Kanazawa, Japan in the early 1990s, studying Japanese during a break from law school. He had a student budget in those days, and frequented the city's kaiten, or conveyor-belt, sushi restaurants. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Read Article » Dec 5, 2007
Their most celebrated project, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, is a collection of discrete pavilions enveloped in a glistening one-story glass cylinder - a heavenly village of art whose intricate network of corridors obliterates the conventional museum narrative. Its sleek forms are pieced together with a precision and care that are closer in spirit to the layout of a computer's circuit board than to the big industrial machines fetishized by the early Modernists. (International Herald Tribune)
All Nippon to use cash in plane order Nov 29, 2007
3 billion, from cash it raised selling hotels for the planes, said Eiji Kanazawa, All Nippon Airways's senior vice president for finance and accounting. "We're not going back to the days of more than 1 trillion yen in debt," Kanazawa said ... All Nippon interest-bearing debt was at the lowest level since 1992, Kanazawa said Nov. 9. (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
All Nippon, Buying 50 787s, Will Use Cash to Help Keep Debt at 15-Year Low Nov 28, 2007
3 billion) from cash it raised selling hotels for the planes, Eiji Kanazawa, the Tokyo-based carrier's senior vice president for finance and accounting said in an interview. We're not going back to the days of more than 1 trillion yen in debt,'' Kanazawa said ... All Nippon interest-bearing debt was the lowest level since 1992, Kanazawa said in a Nov. 9 interview. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Komatsu to Spend $48 Million to Build Excavator Factory in Central Japan Nov 19, 2007
The company will spend the money on acquiring 104,500 square meters (26 acres) of land near Kanazawa port, and on construction costs of the factory, the Tokyo-based company said today in faxed statement. The plant, which will build excavators weighing 400 tons, will start production in August 2009 and will have a capacity to make 30 units annually. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Tim Gunn's fashionable guide to globe-trotting Nov 15, 2007
I spent a lot of time in Japan developing an academic program at Parsons in Kanazawa on the Sea of Japan. Its a big seafood place, and I was with the dean of Parsons at the time and our hosts were incredibly generous and thoughtful people who asked the dean whether he wanted to eat dinner at a seafood or beef restaurant. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Excessive fat intake can throw out the body clock Nov 7, 2007
It could be that the change in eating habits, rather than a direct effect of specific nutrients, altered their body clocks, says Hitoshi Ando at Kanazawa University in Japan. Ando has studied the impact of fatty food on the body clock in female mice, but found only a minimal effect. (Nature News Service)
Nets to offer patients health care 'to go' Sep 13, 2007
Kanazawa University in Japan went one better by creating a simulated home environment in a lab with monitoring devices embedded in pillows, slippers, bathtubs, bathroom floors and toilets. The devices tracked everything from blood pressure and weight to ECG patterns and whether subjects got a good night's sleep. (EETimes)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
Japanese racing resumes Aug 25, 2007
Kanazawa, which had to cancel last Sunday and Monday, has again cancelled the same two days this week ... Kanazawa, which had to cancel last Sunday and Monday, has again cancelled the same two days this week. (ESPN -- Horse Racing)
The blind samurai Aug 19, 2007
Sozaemon wants Kanazawa Jubeis head for killing his father, but the task takes longer than expected. He decides to bide his time at a tenement in Edo. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Chinese, Japanese scholars donate rare books Aug 15, 2007
All the Japanese scholars attended the seminar in Beijing on Aug. 13, including Moon Kyong Kim, professor of Kyoto University; Yoshihiro Nikaibou, professor of Kansai University; Taizan Inoue, professor of Kansai University; Nozomu Ueda, associate professor of Kanazawa University; Masahiko Takeuchi, associate professor of Ryukoku University; Satoshi Nakagawa, associate professor of Daito Bunka University. With a total of 65 volumes, "The History of the Three Kingdoms" written by Chen Shou... (Xinhuanet, China)
Japan autoworker offers skilled labor, looks to hot springs after retirement Jul 22, 2007
KAMINOKAWA-MACHI, Japan: Masakazu Kanazawa takes pride in his work as a 31-year veteran at a Nissan plant, fighting seconds to ever so perfectly and delicately put in axle parts ... But employment at Nissan Motor Co., Japan's No. 3 automaker, is putting Kanazawa and other workers like him solidly in the middle class in pay, and winning them respect as craftsmen at a time when the population is shrinking from a stagnant birth rate ... Although Kanazawa isn't the bragging type, he isn't shy about... (International Herald Tribune)
Japan shuts N-plant after quake Jul 19, 2007
Last year a district court in Kanazawa, near Niigata, ordered Hokuriku Electric Power to shut the Shika plant after ruling it was vulnerable to earthquakes. Mondays quake shook the northern prefecture of Niigata, where Tepcos plant is located, triggering the automatic shutdown of four of seven reactors. (FT.com -- Markets)
Policeman stabs himself to get time off Jun 5, 2007
He stabbed himself with a fruit knife at his home in nearby Kanazawa on May 23. But he told police he had been attacked when he opened his front door to a stranger, sparking an investigation into attempted murder. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
British national Bill Hawker weeps as he holds a photo of his 22-year-old daughter Lindsay Ann Hawker during a press conference in Chiba city, Japan on Wednesday, March 28, 2007. The body of Lindsay Ann Hawker was discovered buried in sand in a bath tub on a apartment balcony after her possible murder at the apartment in Ichikawa City, east of Tokyo on March 26. (Britain) Thursday, March 29, 19:54 Mercury goes up in Japan, Tokyo cherry blossoms in full bloom Mar 29, 2007
The cherry blossoms bloomed in Iwaki, 10 days earlier than usual, while in Kanazawa, they did so eight days earlier. lect. (News on Japan, Japan)
Quake Rocks Japan, Kills 1, Injures 170 Mar 26, 2007
KANAZAWA, Japan -- A powerful earthquake struck central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast. The quake was followed throughout the day by aftershocks. (Newsmax)
Aftershocks Shake Japan After Earthquake Mar 26, 2007
KANAZAWA, Japan Aftershocks shook a rural area of coastal central Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least one person and injured 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast. One of the aftershocks had a preliminary magnitude of 5. (Fox News)
Earthquake rocks Japan; 1 dead, scores injured Mar 25, 2007
KANAZAWA, Japan: A powerful quake tore into a rural area of coastal central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person as it toppled aging farmhouses and temples, set off landslides and caused a small tsunami. Some 160 people were injured. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Stressed-out royalty: After crown princess, Japan's empress falls victim to stress Mar 12, 2007
"It is believed that the empress is suffering from symptoms related to psychological stress," said Ichiro Kanazawa, the palace's chief medical supervisor. Officials said they believed recent coverage of the royal family might be to blame. (International Herald Tribune)
Underwood: Japan War Victims Mar 7, 2007
Since June 1995, Chinese war victims have filed lawsuits in Japanese courts in Tokyo, Sapporo, Kyoto, Nagano, Fukuoka, Niigata, Gunma, Yamagata, Miyazaki and Kanazawa, seeking compensation from the Japanese government and Japanese corporations. The lawsuits involve cases of massacre, indiscriminate bombing, abandoned chemical weapons and shells, Unit 731s experiments using live human subjects and its deployment of germ bombs, comfort women and cases of forced labor. (Zmag.org)
* Beauty up, dumb down Mar 4, 2007
Nominally an academic working in Chicago, she more interestingly defines herself as "an unreformed hippie," albeit one who for most of her professional life has studied "inbreathed fricatives, diminutive suffixation, and other aspects of linguistic anthropology." But during a stay in Kanazawa in Japan she became interested in the nation's beauty parlors, magazines and very extensive personal practices. This book is the result of that fascination. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Study Shows Genetic Link For Schizophrenia Feb 22, 2007
In addition to Yoshikawa and Tonegawa, authors are Kazuo Yamada, Yoshimi Iwayama, Tetsuo Ohnishi, Hisako Ohba, Tomoko Toyota and Jun Aruga of RIKEN Brain Sciences Institute; David J. Gerber of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center; and Yoshio Minabe of Kanazawa University School of Medicine in Japan. This work is supported by the RIKEN Brain Science Institute and other agencies and institutes. (Science Daily)
* Japan ends moon plans Jan 16, 2007
But development of the so-called penetrator probes has taken so long that the mission's mother ship, which was built 10 years ago, has fallen into disrepair and would require too much money to fix, said Satoko Kanazawa, a spokeswoman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ... Japan will now scrap the mission but finish development of penetrator probes and offer technology to other space programs, including Russia's, Kanazawa said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Japan recommends scrapping costly moon mission Jan 16, 2007
But development of the so-called penetrator probes has taken so long that the mission's mother ship, which was built 10 years ago, has fallen into disrepair and would require too much money to fix, said Satoko Kanazawa, a spokeswoman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA. ... Japan will now scrap the mission but finish development of the penetrator probes and offer the technology to other space programs, including Russia's, Kanazawa said ... JAXA's space development committee... (MSNBC -- International)
