Nagano

Type: City
Name: Nagano
Country: Japan
Latitude: 36.650002
Longitude: 138.179993
population: 360,179
First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

2 bodies found in Japanese Alps thought to be those of missing hikers

NAGANO Police said Monday that two bodies have been found on the Hotaka mountain range in Nagano Prefecture?s Northern Alps. According to police, the bodies were discovered near a stream at a point 1,800 meters above sea level on May 18 at around 11 a.m. ... [Published Japan Today - May 20 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

The Klondike loses Steve Kormendy

Submitted Photo/Yukon NewsPeggy and Steve Kormendy of Dawson City with their grandson Luke Kormendy around 2001. Steve passed away last week at the age of 90.A flip of a coin brought Steve Kormendy to the Yukon more than six decades ago.After being discharged ... [Published Yukon News - May 17 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

News in Brief: Thursday May 16

commentsSingapore Airlines' South West Pacific load factor dipped 4.3 percentage points in April t0 79.4%, with the airline attributing the decline to the shift in Easter holidays to March as compared to April last year.The carrier experienced an overall ... [Published Travel Weekly Australia - May 16 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

83-year-old man arrested for beating his wife to death

NAGANO Police on Wednesday arrested an 83-year-old man for allegedly beating his wife to death at their home in Okaya, Nagano Prefecture.According to police, Katsumi Sekiguchi beat his wife Sachiko, 80, about the face and stomach several times at around ... [Published Japan Today - May 15 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Japan’s best resorts at Snow Travel Expo 2013

Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) together with Japan’s best snow fields will be on show at the annual Snow Travel Expos in Melbourne (19th May) and Sydney (26th May).Japan’s three main ski regions – Hokkaido, Nagano & Niigata, and Tohoku-which ... [Published EGlobal Travel Media - May 15 2013]
First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Gold Medalists Opened Exhibition - Nagano 15 years at the Radegast Brewery

Nošovice, May 9th, 2013 - The Visitors Centre of the Radegast Brewery in Nošovice is hosting an official photo exhibition - Nagano 15 years. Nošovice is the first place in Northern Moravia where the exhibition can be seen. Dozens of images from photographer ... [Published Noodls - May 13 2013]
First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Nagano or not? Prefectural governors squabble over name of new Shinkansen line

An artist's drawing of a Series E-7 bullet train. (Courtesy of JR East) Hokuriku Shinkansen? Or Hokuriku Nagano Shinkansen? It depends on which prefectural governor you ask.The name of the bullet train line, whose Nagano-Kanazawa connection is scheduled ... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 11 2013]
Entities: Nagano, Kanazawa, Toyama
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

17 die in mountain accidents during Golden Week holidays

Members of the Nagano Prefectural Police force's mountain rescue unit descend a mountain in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, on April 19. (Mainichi) Seventeen people were found dead in mountain accidents across Japan during this past Golden Week holiday period ... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 07 2013]
First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

2 university students drown in lake during club training retreat

SHINANO, Nagano -- Two university students drowned in a lake here on May 3 during a brass band training camp.Students from Komazawa University in Tokyo called police at around 5:20 p.m. saying their fellow club members were drowning in Lake Nojiri here. ... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 04 2013]
First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

"Therapeutic Agent for Ischemic Diseases" in Patent Application Approval Process

(NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Diabetes Week -- A patent application by the inventors Wada, Yuko (Nagano, JP); Shimatani-Shibata, Yuko (Nagano, JP); Shimizu-Matsuhashi, Hitomi (Nagano, JP); Sasaki, Takayuki (Nagano, JP), filed on ... [Published NewsRX - May 03 2013]
First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 2 reports

2 climbers still missing on mountain

Two climbers remained missing Monday after an an avalanche hit a group of climbers on Mount Shirouma in Nagano Prefecture on Saturday morning.Two backpacks belonging to the two missing men, aged 50 and 32, were found near the site of the avalanche. A ... [Published Japan Today - Apr 29 2013]
Entities: Avalanche, Nagano, Police
First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 3 reports

Body of avalanche victim found

Print: Apr 29, 2013Last Modfied: Apr 29, 2013NAGANO – A day after an avalanche hit a group of climbers on Mount Shirouma in Nagano Prefecture, the body of a missing woman was found Sunday, police said.The body of Noriko Yamaguchi, 56, from Gifu Prefecture, ... [Published Japan Times - Apr 28 2013]
Entities: Avalanche, Nagano, Police

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...robotics, input devices, interaction techniques, gaming, and computer vision," said Dylan Moore, SIGGRAPH 2013 Emerging Technologies Chair. "We were especially pleased that our call for assistive technologies was answered. The focus was to only showcasing those technologies that blew the jury away on every level, and meeting a high bar for quality and novelty. We can't wait to get these technologies in the hands of our attendees to try out."
...Radegast was the partner of the Olympic team in 1998, and it was the bitter beer from Nošovice that helped celebrate the golden success. "I think everyone in Moravia is still proud of the fact that Radegast has been a part of such a huge success. It is in hockey even now as the official beer of the extra league and a partner of many Moravian clubs" said Vladimír Jurina, responsible for the Radegast presentation in Nagano. He now works as a PR manager for the Pilsner Urquell brands
"We started with no philosophy, we just wanted to make furniture we like and use at home," says the happy-go-lucky Kise, 44. "I am happy doing what I want. I don't want to think about money and sales."
...sideration the views of local governments located along the Shinkansen line," commented an official from JR East with regard to the ongoing dispute. "The only comment we can make at the moment is that the matter is still being decided."

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2 bodies found in Japanese Alps thought to be t... [Published Japan Today - May 20 2013]
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Proclamation of Ecija poll winners deferred [Published Headline Gitnang Luzon - May 16 2013]
SBI HOLDINGS INC : Regarding a Korean Media Rep... [Published 4 Traders - May 16 2013]
News in Brief: Thursday May 16 [Published Travel Weekly Australia - May 16 2013]
83-year-old man arrested for beating his wife t... [Published Japan Today - May 15 2013]
Japan’s best resorts at Snow Travel Expo 2013 [Published EGlobal Travel Media - May 15 2013]
JR Tokai reveals 'small and efficient' future b... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 14 2013]
'Green Curtain' Initiative: KYOCERA Greens Comp... [Published NewsBlaze - May 13 2013]
"Green Curtain" Initiative: KYOCERA Greens Comp... [Published Stockhouse Canada - May 13 2013]
"Green Curtain" Initiative: KYOCERA Greens Comp... [Published Business Wire - May 13 2013]
Gold Medalists Opened Exhibition - Nagano 15 ye... [Published Noodls - May 13 2013]
?Green Curtain? Initiative: KYOCERA Greens Comp... [Published Noodls - May 13 2013]
No design design [Published thestar.com.my - May 13 2013]
Nagano or not? Prefectural governors squabble o... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 11 2013]
5 suffer heatstroke as temperatures fluctuate a... [Published Japan Today - May 10 2013]
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15 dead, 1 missing in mountain-related accident... [Published Japan Today - May 08 2013]
Engineered Monoclonal Antibody with Novel Antig... [Published Elites TV - May 08 2013]
17 die in mountain accidents during Golden Week... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 07 2013]
SBI HOLDINGS INC : Change in Names of Subsidiaries [Published 4 Traders - May 07 2013]
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Yamamoto [Published Lawyers, Guns & Money - 12 hours ago]
Interesting (slightly old) piece on Isoruku Yamamoto in Japanese historical memory: Unlike the Yushukan museum at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, the Yamamoto museum does not appear to re-write or glorify Japan’s war history. A small exhibit ...
Food and Fuel for the 21st Century [Published Ecology Global Network - May 20 2013]
Courtesy of UCSD News New discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals and pests, increase salt and drought tolerance, control water loss and store sugar can have profound ...
The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #143 [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 05 2013]
A reader writes: Perhaps its something like familiarity bias, but I’m always struck by how many images look like my own locale, Southern California.  This view with the large grey mountain in the background, the cars in the foreground, the palm ...
Tsunami-Wrecked Japanese City Hasn't Figured Ou... [Published Clusterstock - Feb 22 2013]
A Japanese city devastated by the 2011 tsunami disaster remains mystified more than two weeks after receiving anonymous gifts of gold bars worth over $300,000. A fish market in Ishinomaki, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) northeast of Tokyo, received ...
A Japanese solution for made-in-Canada sake [Published Financial Post | Business » Entrepreneur - Feb 04 2013]
Ken Valvur is founder and president of Ontario Spring Water Sake Company, a sake brewery opened in April 2011 in Toronto’s Distillery District where the traditional Japanese distilling process is on full display for passersby. A former banker, Mr. Valvur’s ...
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