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Citizen marathons aim to attract foreign tourists

Edit The Japan News 01 May 2016
By Takeru Tsuzuki / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer The number of foreign tourists participating in citizen marathons has increased dramatically ... The World Heritage Himeji Castle Marathon was held on Feb. 28 in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture ... 21 ... Rokko in Hyogo Prefecture ... The Hakodate Marathon in Hokkaido will take place in June and the Mito Komon Manyu Marathon in Ibaraki Prefecture in October, both for the first time with JAAF-approved courses....

ANA HOLDINGS Financial Results for the Year ended March 31, 2016 (ANA Holdings Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
(Source. ANA Holdings Inc). TOKYO, April 28, 2016- ANA HOLDINGS (hereafter 'ANA HD') today reports its consolidated financial results for fiscal year 2015 (April 2015 - March 2016) ... Air Transportation 1. Domestic Passenger Services・Demand ... During the summer timetable, the route between Osaka Itami and Hakodate was re-opened and during the winter timetable additional flights were added to the Haneda-Osaka Kansai route ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... Contact ... BACK....

This robot-written novel almost won a literary award

Edit The Times of India 25 Apr 2016
NEW DELHI. If Microsoft and Facebook working on bots to interact with users in future were hard to digest, then imagine a future in which computers pen customized novels as per readers ... But the novel couldn't win the award. Build 2016. Windows 10 anniversary update, AI, UWP and bots ... Automation is risking many jobs in almost all sectors ... The team was headed by Future University Hakodate professor Hitoshi Matsubara ... ....

Op DRIFTNET team recognized for their role in intercepting illegal fishing vessel (Canada's Air Force)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. Canada's Air Force). Article/ April 19, 2016. By. Lucy Ellis ... The award ceremony occurred at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt. In May 2014, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) conducted 11 surveillance patrols based out of Hakodate, Japan during Operation DRIFTNET. On 20 May 2014, an RCAF CP-140 Aurora patrol located and photographed a suspicious vessel, the YIN YUAN ... Mr ... The ship had no clear markings and flew a Japanese flag ... (noodl....

Ride the rails in style: 5 new train journeys

Edit The Independent 11 Apr 2016
Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate Hokuto. The hotly anticipated new bullet train line from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate Hokuto opened last week, cutting the journey time from nearly six hours (with lots of changes) down to a direct service of four hours and two minutes, making the lesser-visited island of Hokkaido with its hot springs, ......

After 43 years, Japanese islands finally linked by bullet train

Edit Stars and Stripes 03 Apr 2016
10, departed Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station at 6.35 a.m ... Hotels in Hakodate were nearly full on March 26 and 27 ... At the Hakodate Morning Market near Hakodate Station, a seafood shop selling delicacies such as crab and shishamo smelt enjoyed an about 1.5-fold sales increase compared to the previous weekend. Construction of a large-scale shopping facility in front of Hakodate Station is wrapping up before its planned summer opening....

High hopes for Hokkaido Shinkansen

Edit The Japan News 03 Apr 2016
10, departed Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station at 6.35 a.m ... 38 departs for Tokyo from Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, where rail fans were still lingering after sunset at 6.36 p.m ... Hotels in Hakodate were nearly full on March 26 and 27 ... At the Hakodate Morning Market near Hakodate Station, a seafood shop selling delicacies such as crab and shishamo smelt enjoyed an about 1.5-fold sales increase compared to the previous weekend....

Make Kansai, Itami airports more competitive through privatization

Edit The Japan News 01 Apr 2016
The Yomiuri ShimbunIt is vital that airports are managed by using private-sector capital and methods to strengthen the international competitiveness of such facilities ... and Vinci Airports S.A.S., a French corporation ... Operating rights for these facilities have been sold to Kansai Airports ... and others. The sale of operating rights also is being considered for New Chitose, Hakodate, Takamatsu, Hiroshima, Fukuoka and other airports ... + - ... ....

Airport privatization set to expand

Edit The Japan News 28 Mar 2016
The Yomiuri ShimbunThere are growing moves to privatize airport operations (see below) amid the sharp increase in foreign visitors to Japan, in a bid to utilize private-sector expertise to bring more passengers and visitors to airport facilities ... The four Hokkaido airports under government management are New Chitose, Wakkanai, Kushiro and Hakodate ... The remaining two are controlled by the Asahikawa and Obihiro city governments ... + - ... ....

Use ingenuity to prolong benefits of pening Hokkaido Shinkansen Line

Edit The Japan News 27 Mar 2016
The Yomiuri ShimbunThe Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, which connects Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto stations, has been put into service ... Many hotels in and around Hakodate are booked to capacity ... It takes a minimum of four hours and two minutes to travel from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, plus about 20 minutes to get to the heart of Hakodate on an existing railroad line....

Japan's new bullet train connects northernmost island

Edit Topix 27 Mar 2016
Eager passengers scuttle onboard the newest Bullet Train on Japan's northernmost island. The line connects Hakodate to Tokyo in just over four hours ... ....

Hopes grow for Hokkaido Shinkansen extension

Edit The Japan News 26 Mar 2016
The bullet train line, which went into service on Saturday on the section between Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in the Hokkaido city of Hokuto, is currently scheduled to be extended to Sapporo by the end of fiscal 2030. After the extension, Shinkansen trains will link Tokyo and Sapporo in about five hours and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto and Sapporo in about an hour....

Hokkaido Shinkansen goes into service with fanfare

Edit The Japan News 26 Mar 2016
The 149-kilometer new railway between Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in the city of Hokuto in the southern part of Hokkaido, passes through the 54-kilometer Seikan Tunnel ... This means that passengers can travel between Tokyo and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto without changing trains, with the fastest Shinkansen train linking the two stations in four hours and two minutes....
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