Yokohama Tire House notlongago had a U.S key of a dB Super E-spec, a initial tire formulated with orange oil. Oil from a orangepeel, not orange extract, is used to reinstate petroleum-based oils in a buildingawhole. A citrus (orange) oil is sourced from a orange growers attention, aswellas ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Entitled Celluloid Jam, this house created by Norisada Maeda features walls that aim to flow continuously around the exterior, from inside to outside and back again like a Moebius strip. To underline this impression, Celluloid Jams complete surface has been realized without visible junctures. The wooden construction is revetted by fibre restrained plastic to create one [...]
“Tokyo & Yokohama - A High Speed Journey” is an amazing time lapse video, which shows the two Japanese metropolises by night. If you like pure urbanity, take a look...
The Annual Robocon Competition took place in Yokohama, Tokyo on November 18. 40 teams from all over the world were competing in various disciplines, including the LEGO MINDSTORMS.
Multiple international communities came together for another BarCamp here in Japan last weekend, this time at the Yokohama International School about a half hour south of Tokyo. Back in May we organized a BarCamp in Tokyo , and I think we`ll do more of these events after this Yokohama effort. This BarCamp model for conference organizing is very interesting and extremely efficient because it`s such...
Kodo, Japan's most famous taiko (drumming) troupe, will cap the year with a series of special concerts, showcasing the members' progress after an extensive worldwide tour. The 28-year-old, award-winning troupe will kick off its annual December Concerts on Kodo's home of Sado Island, then travel to Niigata, Okayama, Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo before concluding the 13-show run in Yokohama on...
On Wednesday, the Fighters traded Naoto Inada, Suguru Matsuyama, and Yataro Sakamoto to the Baystars for Takeharu Katoh, Takahiro Matsuka, and Yuta Sekiguchi . This trade seems REALLY weird to me and as usual I think the Baystars got the better deal, just like two years ago with the Yakult 3-on-3 trade (where they got a hot young infielder and two young relievers, all players in their mid-20's, and...
BANCROFT, Ontario (November 21, 2009) – Yokohama team driver Andrew Comrie-Picard put in a clutch performance with a hard-earned second place finish in the Rally of the Tall Pines here to garner his first North American Rally Cup championship. With co-driver Jeremy Wimpey of State College, Pennsylvania, Toronto-based Comrie-Picard haunted the top of the leader board in his 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer...
NTV’s “Bankisha” investigates a massage parlor in Yokohama that pays high school-aged girls to rub their bodies against male customers: Similar businesses in Nagoya and Hokkaido have been shut down by the police and there are strong suspicions that this place may be breaking the law as well. NTV’s reporters discover that the store pays [...]
The ¥17.1 billion requested for hosting next November's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in Yokohama should be pared by 20 percent, a key government body tasked with cutting wasteful spending said Tuesday, calling the estimate inflated. Members of the Government Revitalization Unit said the requested amount for facility usage, food costs and accommodating leaders attending the event...
YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Two dead babies were found in a duffel bag Tuesday on the banks of the Kawaotogawa River in Matsudamachi, Kanagawa Prefecture, police said. They said the corpses were decomposed to the point that the genders could not be determined and that they believe the babies had been dead for several weeks.
One could argue that the Motorola Droid is in fact the first-ever Android-based in-car navigation solution, but we’re surmising that ArcherMind would disagree. Over at the Embedded Technology 2009 trade show in Yokohama, the outfit has demonstrated an Android-laden navigation system that could actually be inserted as a factory option; curiously enough, it looks an [...]
One could argue that the Motorola Droid is in fact the first-ever Android-based in-car navigation solution, but we're surmising that ArcherMind would disagree. Over at the Embedded Technology 2009 trade show in Yokohama, the outfit has demonstrated an Android -laden navigation system that could actually be inserted as a factory option; curiously enough, it looks an awful lot like the AutoLinQ Continue...
One could argue that the Motorola Droid is in fact the first-ever Android-based in-car navigation solution, but we're surmising that ArcherMind would disagree. Over at the Embedded Technology 2009 trade show in Yokohama, the outfit has demonstrated an Android -laden navigation system that could actually be inserted as a factory option; curiously enough, it looks an awful lot like the AutoLinQ initiative...
Filed under: Hydrogen , Japan 2009 Honda FCX Clarity - Click above for high-res image gallery A lot of automakers are targeting 2015 as the year to introduce fuel cell vehicles to the market, GM , Toyota and Honda foremost among them. This is fine and all, but there are still some serious questions about the cost of hydrogen fuel cell systems to figure out between now and then. A quote buried deep...