Shizuoka
May 09, 2013
HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka Prefecture--A group of diners at a French restaurant in Tokyo’s posh Ginza district raised their glasses, filled with a champagne-gold liquid.
March 12, 2013
SHIZUOKA--A tiny soccer-playing radio-controlled robot is being offered as a self-assembly kit to encourage children to shut off their video screens, learn construction skills...
October 15, 2012
The Shizuoka prefectural assembly on Oct. 11 voted down an ordinance calling for a referendum on the restart of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, which is operated...
September 21, 2012
The governor of Shizuoka Prefecture submitted a bill to the prefectural assembly on Sept. 19 calling for a referendum on the restart of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant.
September 17, 2012
When Toshitsugu Fujii became head of a Japanese task force on disaster response at Mount Fuji, he was confronted with a startling oversight. Japan had no plan in place to deal...
July 01, 2012
With the official opening of climbing season being July 1, local and tourism officials near Mount Fuji have always steered the focus this time of year on tourism and visitors,...
April 09, 2012
Dozens of hotels and ryokan in Shizuoka Prefecture have decided to scrap their automatic payment contracts with Tokyo Electric Power Co. to protest sharp increases in utility...
November 05, 2011
SHIZUOKA--Street performers usually ply their trade for smiles and gratuities, but at the Daidogei World Cup, which kicked off on Nov. 3 at a local park, the entrants from 21...
June 21, 2011
SHIZUOKA--Exported tea that the French government says contained double the European Union's safety standard of radioactive cesium has been tracked down to a company in...
May 10, 2011
Given the routine electricity exchanges among power companies, the shutdown of all reactors at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear power plant could lead to dwindling...
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