Miyagi Prefecture News
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Toyo Ito, an architect who uses bravura engineering to achieve effortless-looking lyricism, was yesterday named the 2013 laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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New Kansai International Airport Co. plans to hire financial advisers as early as in April for the sale of an airport concession in Osaka, aiming to raise as much as 1.2 trillion yen ($13 billion), two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Sparx Group Co., Asia’s second- largest hedge fund, is starting a fund that will invest in building hotels in Japan’s earthquake-devastated areas.
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Toyota Motor Corp. , the automaker most affected by Japan’s record earthquake, is planning to build a new engine plant in the nation’s devastated Miyagi prefecture and will transfer a subsidiary’s production operations to the region.
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Toyota Motor Corp. is poised to take back the title of world’s biggest automaker for 2012, as Volkswagen AG fights General Motors Co. for second place heading into the final weeks.
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Stocks in Japan extended losses as trading resumed though the worst earthquake on record in the third-biggest economy is unlikely to dent the two-year bull market in global equities.
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A deadly virus is stalking France’s coastline, killing at least 60 percent of the young oysters there since 2008. Japan’s earthquake and tsunami may have wiped out the latest rescue plan.
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A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off northeastern Japan yesterday, the most powerful since last year’s record temblor, swaying buildings in Tokyo for several minutes and temporarily disrupting rail and airline traffic.
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Iwaki Diecast Co.’s 15 electric furnaces shut down as the March 11 earthquake knocked out power, turning 12 tons of aluminum bubbling at 670-degrees Celsius into solid lumps of metal.
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Land prices in Japan’s northeastern region that was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami last year gained the most in 2011 as residents sought to relocate, the land ministry’s annual land price report showed.
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