Hakodate, Japan News

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Services resumed on Narita International Airport's second runway Thursday, after the completion of work to lengthen it from 2,180 to 2,500 meters.

NARITA, Chiba Pref. Narita International Airport, the country's main international gateway, opened the long-awaited extension to its second runway Thursday.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas recalls stories he heard as a child of Haida fishermen pursuing northern fur seals across the Pacific Ocean on hunts which would last months at a time and take them as far away as the shores of Japan.

We present a solution to these problems. We also formalize two types of communicative actions that can be used by an agent to request another agent to achieve a goal or perform an action provided that some condition becomes true.

Distances 40 km E of Aomori, Honshu, Japan 45 km NW of Hachinohe, Honshu, Japan 115 km SSE of Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan 580 km NNE of TOKYO, Japan Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 14 km ; depth fixed by location program Parameters NST= 16, Nph= 16, Dmin=216 km, Rmss=0.46 sec, Gp= 79, M-type=body wave magnitude , Version=6 Source USGS NEIC Event ...

The significance of Ca2+ influx and phosphoinositide signalling during the formation of cell polarity in migrating monospores was analysed pharmacologically.

SAPPORO Bankrupt Marui Imai Inc., Hokkaido's biggest department store chain, resumed business Saturday by reopening two of its four stores as subsidiaries of sponsor Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations will ask political parties to pledge the introduction of full mandatory recording of questioning of criminal suspects in their manifestos prior to the Aug.

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi hinted he may favour extending the central bank's unconventional measures aimed at easing credit strains beyond December, saying on Wednesday that it was unclear if corporate funding conditions would keep improving.

West Japan Railway Co. President Masao Yamazaki has made clear his intention to wholeheartedly challenge in court his indictment over a fatal 2005 rail crash.

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