The Buddhist temple founded in 788 Enryakuji in the north of Kyoto is a UNESCO World Heritage site, attracting tourists from all over the world – and also for the Yakuza. Home to the Yamaguchi-gumi members, the largest Japanese mafia grouping, once per year prayers for their deceased leader from. Even prayer plaques, which are written on their behalf Buddhist dead are preserved at the temple for her.
The news that Japan Tourism Agency to re-launch of tourism will give away 10,000 free flights to Japan, has triggered a plethora of reactions, comments and e-mail inquiries in Asia mirror for the 10,000 free flights.The last word had not yet spoken, said a spokeswoman for the Japan National Tourist Organization in Frankfurt to Asia mirror.
NTT Docomo Adapts to the zeitgeist. According to the Asahi Shimbun has developed the Japanese telecom company a smartphone that using a built-in sensor measures the radiation and records.Can also be recorded using a GPS system, the measured value and the time on a digital map including a photo, so that the last concern to be taken before any permanent contamination.
The Tokyo Sky Tree, the giant new television tower in the Japanese capital, is on 22 May 2012 officially go into operation. Already, the still under construction Sky Tree is a magnet for tourists. Every day, many guests at Station Narihirabashi urge to take a look at the structure already completed the 634 meter high tower.
The Japanese Transport Minister Akihiro Ohata has granted the railway operator JR Tokai concession for the construction of the maglev between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Thus, the so-called Chuo Shinkansen Project, which is in planning since 1973, on its way to its realization. With a cruising speed of 505 kilometers per hour travel time between the two cities will be reduced to 67 minutes.
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.
He calls himself Egashira 2:50 clock and is Japan's equivalent to something like Jackass star Steve-O Blödel . The 45-year-old who appears happy with his naked torso, makes everything that is not for riot he caused in 1997 in Turkey when he let down in a wrestling event of the pants – a gag, for which he is famous in Japan.
In the troubled region are running out of petrol. In the tsunami-devastated city is currently an acute shortage of Minamisanrikucho. The people here live in safe havens from private donations. Other empty the tank cars overturned. It is cold in the Northeast. Yesterday it snowed. The temperatures are in the zero-degree range.
According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japanese researchers have produced under the direction of Professor Hiroshi Kitagawa at Kyoto University with the help of nanotechnology, an alloy of rare earth palladium is similar – an element that comes on the periodic table between rhodium and silver are to . For Japan, this means a first step towards the erosion of commodity-dependence on China.
Simmering since September, then in an open exchange of blows out conflict between the company Qihoo and Tencent is finally over. It began when Qihoo, which belongs to the product 360 to the market leader in security software, Tencent accused that this popular with the QQ instant messaging program would spy on their users.