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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 5, 2020

Competing interests of labor unions laid bare at TV Asahi

When a company's workforce contains both journalists and news program workers, conflict can arise.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 30, 2010

JR East's in-station stores a success story

Despite the feeble state of domestic consumption, retailers led by East Japan Railway Co. are continuing to infiltrate train stations to tap commuters' propensity to shop.
JAPAN
May 22, 2008

Tokyo Station face-lift adds old, new looks

JR Tokyo Station is in the midst of its first major reconstruction work since the end of the war as part of efforts to revitalize the heart of the capital.
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 28, 2007

Masters of all they survey

"How do you get to the Seibu department store?"
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 27, 2022

Russia to quit International Space Station 'after 2024'

The confirmation of the long-proposed move comes as ties unravel between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Nov 28, 2016

Mikawa-Anjo Station offers foreign visitors brief, cheap shinkansen experience

The number of foreigners visiting Mikawa-Anjo Station, the next stop after Nagoya Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, is increasing, particularly visitors from Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 18, 2014

Tokyo Gas takes wraps off its first hydrogen filling station

Tokyo Gas Co. on Thursday unveiled its first commercial hydrogen station as automakers prepare to usher in a new age in driving technology.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2020

Toranomon Hills Station revealed ahead of opening

Tokyo Metro expects that the station will serve some 80,000 users daily as it is close to areas where many redevelopment projects are underway.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 14, 2020

Tokyo's Takanawa Gateway Station opens to public as Shinagawa development marks milestone

Takanawa Gateway Station opened its doors to the public on Saturday, becoming the latest addition to Tokyo's Yamanote and Keihin Tohoku lines and marking a major milestone in a decadeslong project to transform a large part of the Shinagawa district into a global transportation and business hub.
EDITORIALS
Nov 11, 2001

Space station blues -- again

This month marks a milestone for the International Space Station. As of Nov. 2, there had been a continuous human presence on the orbiting lab-in-progress for exactly one year. Besides the three crews that have successively called it home, 14 spacecraft had visited. Eighteen space walks had been carried...
Events
Oct 2, 2001

Nara Station spared wrecking ball

NARA -- After three years of fuss, Haruyuki Chichibu felt relieved -- the Nara Prefectural Government announced last month that it would not demolish the 67-year-old JR Nara Station building.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2000

Mejiro gets a long-overdue facelift

For the first time in 70 years, Mejiro Station is finally getting a facelift.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2020

Maebashi Station gives students tickets to school of their dreams

With many students busy with last-minute efforts to pass entrance exams, Maebashi Station of East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, is attracting attention for distributing replica tickets bound for a person's first-choice school.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 12, 2015

Cero helps radio station InterFM897 celebrate its new look

The members of Cero have just finished recording their radio show, "Night Drifter," when I meet them at the InterFM897 studios in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. When I walk into the studio, one of the group immediately points out my T-shirt, which has an air-brushed depiction of a beach at sunset with the word...
JAPAN
May 24, 2012

Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building set to reopen

An "old and new" landmark will soon be back up and running at JR Tokyo Station.
COMMUNITY
Apr 23, 2000

JR East's No. 20 'just your average station'

Like many Yamanote Loop stations, Gotanda's name speaks of the area's past. Gotanda literally means 5,000 sq. meters of rice paddies, "tan" formerly being a measure for land area equivalent to 1,000 sq. meters.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 13, 2014

Europe's last cargo ship reaches the International Space Station

A European resupply line to the International Space Station closed on Tuesday with the arrival of a fifth and final freighter to the orbital outpost.
JAPAN
Mar 15, 2013

New connection expedites Saitama-Yokohama route

Tokyo's bustling Shibuya Station is going through yet another change: Starting Saturday, the Tokyu Toyoko Line and the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line will be directly connected, enabling passengers to travel between Saitama and Yokohama without changing trains.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Oct 5, 2012

Tasty twists on tradition at Tokyo Station

Great fanfare accompanied the reopening of Tokyo Station's redbrick building in Marunouchi this week. And, just like any major new (or in this case 98-year-old) landmark, it's a bonanza for tie-in marketing, including plenty of sweets — all limited-edition items that can only be bought inside the station...
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 25, 2022

First all-private astronaut team aboard space station undocks for flight home

The flight home was postponed for several days due to unfavorable weather at the splashdown zone, extending the Axiom crew's stay in orbit.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2019

JR East shows off a nearly complete Takanawa Gateway Station, the Yamanote Line's newest stop

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) gave the media a preview Saturday of platforms and other facilities at Takanawa Gateway, a new Yamanote Line station under construction in Tokyo that is slated to open next spring.
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2018

Standing room only: JR East tells riders in Tokyo to stand on both sides of escalators to block pesky walkers

When a train is about to depart a station, passengers hear an announcement saying, "Please stand clear of the closing doors."

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