Archive for December, 2011

Barbecue for lonely gourmets

Yakiniku is a Japanese barbecue, friends or family eat in restaurants, which are traditionally run by Koreans. A table-top grill in the center, rich in many small pieces of meat and beer from it. The barbecue joint in the middle of the table makes yakiniku a social event. So it was before.In Tokyo's Ueno district , a center of Japanese barbecue food culture, has opened an innovative company launched the first yakiniku restaurant, serving exclusively individual tables.


A first difficulty with

Exactly 45 days after the earthquake is part of the high-speed line between Tokyo and the major city of Sendai has been put back into service. The reopening was but slightly resinous than the rail operator had expected. So had to be interrupted rail traffic on the first day for nearly 3 hours in both directions, as FNN news reported because of a power interruption in the Fukushima prefecture.

“Then renounced power!”

By increasing public criticism of Tepco, the operator of the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima, life is for many an employee of the power producers at a daily gauntlet mutated. It is said a 30-year-old employee of the Postal News Seven that were already slashed the tires of company cars. Vandals to occur, he has an equally self-adhesive Tepco away from his car.

A family swimming in the Love Hotel

Actually minors are not allowed here. But the owner of the love hotels in the city Wakuyacho in the tsunami-hit Miyagi Prefecture has received special permission to open his shop for families, such as the post-Seven Magazine News reported in a report.Indulge Since then the clients in the shelter parents with children in the love hotels now and then a bath and family privacy.

The newspaper in the emergency

After the tsunami on 11 March 2011 was nothing more in Ishinomaki. The tsunami destroyed a large part of the city with 160,000 inhabitants in the prefecture of Miyagi. Over 1000 people lost their lives, nearly 3,000 are still missing today. In the early days of the crisis, the population was cut off in their temporary quarters of the outside world.

Asia's financial experts live

In March, the first published study results of the credit card company MasterCard to financial education of women worldwide. The women in Thailand thus achieved the best result compared to the 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific. Another surprise represented Vietnam at the fourth Office came to rest already, even before Singapore on the 5th Place.

Refreshing electricity eaters

“No other country in the world, consumes nearly 10 million kilowatt-only pachinko halls and vending machines,” Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said shortly after his re-election. Because of this energy consumption would correspond roughly to the electricity production of the reactor accident of Fukushima.

Temporary summer work

Regular power cuts in the Tokyo region have found an end for now. By early June, when air conditioners are switched on again increased, the power supply would be sufficient, so the electricity company Tepco. But people will continue to be encouraged to reduce their personal energy consumption.

The most generous

Masayoshi Son, the owner of the Japanese telecom company Softbank is reflected in these difficult times, particularly generous. Equal to 10 billion yen of his private fortune, he donates to the refugee victims. It is the largest donation from a single person. The amount is to come, according to the Sankei Shimbun, the Japanese Red Cross, voluntary support groups and orphans in the troubled region in the form of an educational scholarship.

Urgent rescue workers sought

Try Every day, specialists in the position of Fukushima reactor accident to bring under control. Around 450 workers are divided into layers, these life-threatening task. The high radiation exposure, which can expose the workers, but no long periods of use. For this reason, reactor operator Tepco is constantly in search of reinforcements.