Local authorities in Kumagaya in Saitama prefecture have devised an umbrella that retains out the rain and doubles as a parasol, the Mainichi Shimbun reported.

The umbrellas, which bear town’s brand and weigh simply 336 grams, might be distributed to 9,000 main schoolchildren subsequent week, the newspaper mentioned.

Kumagaya, a metropolis of about 195,000 positioned 60km north of Tokyo, often data the best temperatures in Japan partly because of heat downslope winds created by the Foehn Effect.

The metropolis’s authorities has for the previous two years suggested youthful youngsters to protect themselves from the solar with common umbrellas on their technique to and from faculty to stop heatstroke, however some questioned their means to dam out daylight.
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An agricultural cooperative within the metropolis of Yokote organizes the occasion yearly to advertise its watermelons.

Seven fruits had been entered on this 12 months’s competitors. They had been of the Carolina Cross selection, a kind of jumbo watermelon grown for livestock feed.

Farmers say circumstances weren’t superb this season, and temperatures remained low.

But the watermelons within the contest had been all big and needed to be carried on a forklift.

The winner weighed in at 80 kilograms. That’s about 6.5 instances the load of the heaviest class of edible watermelons.

Yamamoto Toshio produced the prizewinning watermelon. He has been cultivating the fruit for greater than 30 years. He says he’s glad as a result of his earlier file was about 60 kilograms, and he’ll intention for greater than 100 kilograms subsequent 12 months.

Nissan blames hovering prices of metal merchandise and a variety of uncooked supplies, together with treasured metals utilized in motors and storage batteries.

Rising distribution bills are one more reason.

The measurement of the hikes and size of suspension are but to be determined.

The automaker says it is going to additionally think about elevating costs of different fashions.

Japan’s shoppers can count on to pay extra for brand spanking new vehicles within the coming months, as different producers additionally take care of larger prices of supplies and transportation.

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But with extra individuals selecting to wash at dwelling, excessive gasoline costs, faltering equipment and a scarcity of successors, the variety of public bathtub homes has dropped from almost 18,000 at its peak within the late Nineteen Sixties to just one,800 these days. Young house owners are reinventing the enterprise by renovations and knowledge evaluation.

After transferring from Japan to Australia, Mr Wakasugi determined he’d mix his ardour for comedy with the necessity to enhance his English.

“So I tried [stand-up comedy] and I loved it,” he says.

Mr Wakasugi now performs stand-up across the nation — utilizing this Western fashion of efficiency to unpack his Japanese identification and poke enjoyable at it.

In one set, for instance, he laments how his Japanese obsession with cleanliness means he cannot watch the Lord of the Rings movies with out questioning when the characters final brushed their enamel.

“F***ing shampoo, Gandalf!” he pines, earlier than including, “I’m so Japanese”.
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Soldiers from the eleventh Airborne Division out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska, began the opening day of workouts with coaching on Javelins, a tweet from U.S. Army Japan mentioned. Troops from JSDGF West Army joined within the live-fire coaching.

Stars and Stripes was first to report on the historic firing of the Javelin missile in Japan by U.S. troops. Officials from U.S. Army Japan didn’t reply to requests for remark despatched by Army Times on Tuesday asking for additional particulars.

The Javelin has garnered consideration attributable to its efficient use by Ukraine’s navy, which has wielded the precision weapon system to assault Russian tanks and different armored automobiles. Since the struggle broke out, the U.S. has despatched greater than 5,000 Javelins to Ukraine.

“Japan is the anchoring and frontline ally with the United States in the Indo-Pacific,” commanding basic of U.S. Army Japan, Maj. Gen. J.B. Vowell, mentioned in his opening remarks. “Our partnership serves as the key to integrated deterrence and regional security here on the knife’s edge of freedom. I am looking forward to building on our training and readiness and improving our friendship during this exercise.”
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