With the upcoming rice harvest in late summer and autumn presents itself among consumers in Japan, the anxious question, whether even the traditional staple food is absolutely affected by the radiation emerging from the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima.The concern is great. Just recently the government had to prohibit the export of beef from four prefectures.
2008 had the clever idea to advertise Suntory the highball highball in a major advertising campaign. Dating back to the United States drink in Japan is always mixed with whiskey, carbonated water and ice cooling. The Japanese beverage manufacturer used a long drink as a marketing ploy to boost the sale of the house Kakubin whiskeys.
Roppongi Hills building complex with 238 meters high skyscraper in the center since its opening in 2003 is a landmark of modern Tokyo. That this architectural masterpiece is also a power plant was still up to the nuclear disaster almost entirely unknown.Roppongi Hills suffered in contrast to other skyscrapers never a power interruption.
The tsunami has According to official figures from the 23rd May 2011 15,000 people dead. Around 9,000 other people missing. Many died because did not have enough time to get from the floods in protection. Many elderly people and children often lack the strength to run for a warning on a hill. The Small Business Industry Ise from Aichi prefecture is now waiting with a creative idea on this problem: One capsule defying the waves, which can be placed in house.
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.
The Japanese discount chain Don Quijote makes shopping for once not to talk to its low prices, but with a controversial sale of the product. For Halloween and Christmas, the department store, a Nazi costume, wrapped in a plastic bag with a Hitler figure and the statement has “Heil Hitler”, offered for the best.
A Master of Business Administration is to acquire, in the West for many ambitious professionals rigueur. Not so in Japan. “In Japan, the belief prevails that business knowledge is at work and not acquired in the classroom,” says TW Kang, a manager who lives in Tokyo MBA graduate told the New York Times.
The railway company JR Tokai makes forward with the construction of a high-speed maglev train between Tokyo and Nagoya. So far, three possible routes for the new building were available for selection. An independent commission has now decided for economic reasons for the direct route between the two cities.
Hu Run, a Luxembourg reporter named Rupert Hoogewerf published its monthly magazine, The Hurun Report. Since 1999, he published it a year, the China Rich List, a list of the richest Chinese in the country. Included in the list of who has a fortune of more than one billion RMB, the average age of the listed person is 51 years.
After 20 years, has closed the British music store chain HMV's flagship store in his trendy Shibuya district Tokyo this week. HMV is suffering like every other CD shops with declining revenues. CD sales in Japan have shrunk in comparison to the best of times by 60 percent, the Yomiuri Shimbun wrote.