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Japan Company Chief Arrested For Deadly 2022 Boat Accident

The accident happened off Japan's northern Hokkaido island, and an additional six people are still listed officially as missing.

International Business Times

Rapidus Wants to Offer Fully Automated Packaging for 2nm Fab to Cut Chip Lead Times

One of the core challenges that Rapidus will face when it kicks off volume production of chips on its 2nm-class process technology in 2027 is lining up customers. With Intel, Samsung, and TSMC all slated to offer their own 2nm-class nodes by that time, Rapidus will need some kind of…

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Rapidus Adds Chip Packaging Services to Plans for $32 Billion 2nm Fab

To say that the global foundry market is booming right now would be an understatement. Demand for leading-edge process technologies driven by AI and HPC applications is unprecedented, and with Intel joining the contract chipmaking game, this market segment is once again becoming rather competitive as well. Yet, this is…

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Rapidus to Get $3.9 Billion in Government Aid for 2nm, Multi-Chiplet Technologies

Rapidus, a Japan-based company developing 2nm process technology and aiming to commercialize it in 2027, will receive a huge government grant for its ongoing projects. The Japanese government will support Rapidus with subsidies totaling ¥590 billion yen ($3.89 billion). In addition to developing its 2nm production node and spending on…

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Cate Blanchett lands creative director role at Toku Saké

Actor and producer Cate Blanchett joins Hokkaido-based Toku Saké as creative director, and tells us, ‘I've been obsessed with creating a sake for a very long time’

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Two New Zealand skiers killed after avalanche in Japan

Third person injured after small group were backcountry skiiing in Hokkaido on Mount Yotei when an avalanche struck on Monday

The Guardian - AU

Pod of Killer Whales Escapes Drift Ice in Japan

A pod of killer whales trapped in drift ice off Japan's Hokkaido Island has apparently safely escaped, bringing relief to concerned officials and environme...

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Killer whales trapped in ice off northern Japan 'manage to escape'

A pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido, prompting concern from environmental groups, has apparently safely escaped, officials said Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Concern for orcas trapped in drift ice off Hokkaido coast in Japan

Japanese media report that pod of orcas became trapped in ice close to Rausu on Shiretoko peninsula

The Guardian - AU

Club Med Kiroro Grand: a winter wonderland on Japan's Hokkaido island

Club Med's latest ski resort on Japan's Hokkaido island is heaven on earth for skiers who crave powder snow

Evening Standard

Two Planes Collide Again On Japan Airport Runaway; Second Crash In Country Since New Year

The incident happened on Tuesday at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, Japan's northern island.

International Business Times UK

‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown

The sardines and mackerel were found floating on the surface of the sea near the fishing port of Hakodate in Hokkaido

The Guardian - AU

Bear linked to multiple attacks in Japan found dead alongside its final victim

Japanese officials found the body of a missing student alongside the corpse of a brown bear that likely killed him. The bear is also suspected of attacking several other people in the area.

LiveScience

Ichiro Suzuki, 50, smashes school window with towering home run

Ichiro Suzuki made headlines over the weekend during a coaching session with young ballplayers at Asahikawa Higashi High School in Hokkaido

The Guardian - US

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Newcastle Herald

Food Bites: Nagisa head chef Chris Schofield talks gin and Japanese

Nagisa Japanese Restaurant turns 20 in 2024. Time flies.

The Guardian - UK

‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes

A new book celebrates half a century of work by the landmark English photographer, who has captured everything from factories to shrines in stunning black-and-white images

The Guardian - UK

Brown bear cubs in Japan die of starvation amid salmon shortage

Experts blame rising sea temperatures caused by climate crisis for cub deaths at Unesco heritage site

Motorsport

Kovalainen scores back-to-back All-Japan Rally titles

Kovalainen had won four of the previous five rounds of the championship heading to Rally Hokkaido as he aimed to defend his 2022 title alongside co-driver Sae Kitagawa in his Team Aicello Skoda Fabia R5.

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The Independent UK

Japan police arrest woman, parents in beheading of man at hotel in Hokkaido entertainment district

Japanese police said they have arrested a woman and her parents in a bizarre beheading case in a popular night entertainment distrit in Japan’s northern city of Sapporo, where a headless man was found in a hotel room three weeks ago

The Japan News/Yomiuri

High levels of arsenic detected as steam spews in Hokkaido

RANKOSHI, Hokkaido -- High levels of toxic arsenic have been found in water at a geothermal power generation research site in Rankoshi, Hokkaido, where a large quantity of steam has been erupting for over a week.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

JAL flights to warn about Hokkaido brown bears

Japan Airlines is warning travelers to Hokkaido to be careful of brown bears, making the announcements on flights landing at six of the prefecture's airports, including New Chitose and Memanbetsu.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Surge of tanner crabs in Hokkaido a complicated blessing for locals

A spike in the number of tanner crabs along the Pacific coast to the west of Hokkaido's Cape Erimo has become a mixed blessing for locals.

Daily Mirror

Japan crash: Pigs strewn across road after huge accident kills five and injures 12

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The employers of truck driver Majoto Kajiyama and bus conductor Tayakuki Kozen said each man had more than a decade of driving experience before five people died in Hokkaido, Japan

The Independent UK

5 killed after truck collides with bus in Hokkaido in northern Japan

Five people have been killed and 12 others taken to the hospital after a truck collided with a bus in Hokkaido in northern Japan

Al Jazeera

Magnitude 6.2 earthquake shakes northern Japan

The earthquake affected the northern island of Hokkaido but no injuries or significant damage have been reported.

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