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It is published by regional bureaus, all of them subsidiaries of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest media conglomerate by size behind Sony, [9] [10] which is privately held by law and wholly owned by present and former employees and members of the Matsutarō Shōriki family. The ...
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
December 26, 1934 (Showa 9): Shoriki founded the Great Japan Tokyo Baseball Club, the predecessor of Yomiuri Giants. June 10, 1940 (Showa 15): Established the prototype of the current company flag. August 5, 1942 (Showa 17): Merged with Hochi Shimbun. February 15, 1947 (Showa 22): The company was renamed Yomiuri Kogyo. It acquired all shares of ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is finalising plans to visit the U.S. in late September for the U.N. General Assembly and a possible meeting with President Joe ...
Kamikōchi is located in the Hida Mountains, the "Northern Alps" of the Japanese Alps. The surrounding mountains reach 3,190 m (10,470 ft). Kamikōchi is bordered on its northern end by Mount Hotaka, and on its southern end by Mount Yake, an active volcano. The Azusa River, the headwater of Japan's longest river, the Shinano River, flows the ...
JOIX-DTV (channel 10), branded as Yomiuri TV (読売テレビ, Yomiuri Terebi, YTV (stylized as ytv°)), is the Kansai region flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned by the Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (讀賣テレビ放送株式会社, Yomiuri Terebi Hōsō kabushiki gaisha), itself partially controlled by the eponymous Yomiuri Shimbun ...
Yomiuri may refer to: Yomiuri Giants, a professional baseball team based in Tokyo, Japan. Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, based in Tokyo, Japan. Yomiuri Open, a golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour until 2006. Yomiuri International, a golf tournament on the Far East/Asian Circuit from 1962 to 1971. Yomiuri Pro Championship, an invitational ...
36 (33 above ground, 3 underground) Floor area. 89,651 m 2 (965,000 sq ft) Lifts/elevators. 29. The Yomiuri Shimbun Building (読売新聞ビル) is a skyscraper located in Ōtemachi, Tokyo, Japan. [1] The construction of the 200-meter tower was finished in 2013. The building houses the Tokyo headquarters of the Yomiuri Shimbun, a daily ...