Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I will always look back at this day and think swelteringly hot. August in Japan is not a good time to do site seeing. The best thing to do during the hot muggy days of summer is to stay inside and worship the air conditioning. Despite the heat I wanted to go across the Inland Sea to Honshu and explore. Okayama is the first major city across the Seto Ohashi Bridge on Honshu. Every time Irsquove...
Japan Marketing News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
This cool japanese website from Okayama Ichibangai (the shopping mall adjacent to Okayama Station in western Japan) employs a delightfully playful map that lets you click on structures to learn about the mall's tenants. Although the designers could have done...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Okayama, Chugoku, Japan My working place was in a small village close to Okayama.
Slideroll, Latest Slideshows (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
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THE STEEL DEAL (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
OKAYAMA, Japan - A hospital in the city of Okayama said Tuesday it mistakenly removed the entire left breast from a healthy woman last year as it mixed up the identification number for her test sample with that of a...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
N.Technology has announced that it will run a second car in two of the remaining rounds of the World Touring Car Championship.James Thompson will be joined by Japanese driver Yukinori Taniguchi for the events at Monza and Okayama in the team's second Euro R, developed by N.Technology in collaboration with JAS Motorsport.Taniguchi, whose racing experience includes wins in the Super Taikyu Endurance...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
OKAYAMA — A joint research team from Japan and Mongolia has discovered the rare fossilized skeleton of a young Tarbosaurus, a giant carnivorous dinosaur linked to the Tyrannosaur, in the Gobi Desert. It is the first discovery of an almost complete skeleton of a young dinosaur of the species, experts said, expressing hope it will lead to more understanding of the largely unknown growth process...
A scientist's life (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
During my holiday, I had a chance to read an article on Ken Hayashibara, the chairman of the Hayashibara group of companies in Japan (International site , Japan site in English ).He who? And what do they do?They are a company in rural Japan (well, do you know where Okayama prefecture is') which mainly produces reagents for other industries, industries such as pharmaceuticals, foods, cosmetics....
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
... they could end up finding use in a wide range of applications (including cars),” agreed Teiji Okayama of the technology development department. Toyota founded a chair for research on advanced batteries at Kyoto University, and will carry out research in collaboration with chair professor Koji Nishio. A team of researchers led by Dr. Stuart Licht at the University of Massachusetts, Boston,...
Rashid's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
In this photo taken earlier July, 2008 and released by Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences (HMNS) in Okayama, western Japan, a fossilized skull of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur recovered Aug. 8, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia is shown. The fossil of Tarbosaurus — related to the giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus — believed to have died at age five and measured about 6.6 feet (2 meters)...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... Desert since 1993.The Japanese museum is run by Hayashibara Co., a biotechnology firm based in Okayama, western Japan.© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our . Copyright 2008 Associated Press
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
JFE To Invest Y20bn To Unclog Bottleneck In Coke ProcessingTOKYO (Nikkei)--JFE Steel Corp. said Thursday that it will install a coke furnace at its Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, plant for 20 billion yen to raise its capacity for processing raw materials.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... Desert since 1993.The Japanese museum is run by Hayashibara Co., a biotechnology firm based in Okayama, western Japan.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... Desert since 1993.The Japanese museum is run by Hayashibara Co., a biotechnology firm based in Okayama, western Japan.
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... Desert since 1993.The Japanese museum is run by Hayashibara Co., a biotechnology firm based in Okayama, western Japan. - Sapa-AP
