Funabashi

(fo͞onä`bäshē), city (1990 pop. 533,270), Chiba prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. An industrial and residential suburb of Tokyo, it is known for its iron, steel, and petrochemical plants, as well as for providing agricultural products for the Tokyo market.

Funabashi

a city and port in Japan, on the island of Honshu, in Chiba Prefecture; located near Tokyo, on the coast of Tokyo Bay. Population, 408,600 (1974). Funabashi’s industries include the manufacture of wood products, aluminum goods, and machine tools. Funabashi has a wholesale fish market that supplies Tokyo.

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Yoichi Funabashi is chairman of Asia Pacific Initiative, a Tokyo-based think tank.

In America's absence, Japan takes the lead on Asian free trade

En la tercera jornada el heredero danes visito Higashimatsushima, una de las zonas mas castigadas por el tsunami de 2011, y su mujer conocio el parque Andersen de Funabashi, que lleva el nombre del escritor danes Hans Christian Andersen.

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Yoichi Funabashi | NYT Syndicate PYONGYANG'S recent missile launch over Hokkaido and its underground nuclear test have laid bare Japan's Achilles' heel: Our country's national security policy is still woefully ill equipped for this mounting danger.

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons, Japan's Bind

Yoichi Funabashi of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation says demography is the principal reason that Japan will not regain the dynamism and rapid growth of earlier decades.

The frog in the boiling water

A united regional front could uphold the rules-based order and reduce the potential for conflict, argues journalist and author Yoichi Funabashi.

Japan Trains Other Nations To Enforce Law In East And South China Seas

With the feat, they rocketed (pun intended) to the Asia Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum Water Rocket Event (APRSAFWRE) at the Nihon University Funabashi Campus in Chiba Prefecture in Japan, held Nov.

Pinoys engage in 'rocket science' that literally holds water

After witnessing a field test of S-EIV at its Nishi Funabashi electrical substation, Tokyo Metro ordered one for Myoden Station, where it has saved up to 576 kWh per day on weekdays and up to 661kWh per day on holidays in commercial operations.

Japan : Mitsubishi Electric's S-EIV Saves on Power for Tokyo Metro

PREMIER: Chertanovo Acad 1 Vendee 3; Newcastle Utd 2 Funabashi HS 0; RCD Espanyol 1 OC Blues 0; Co Armagh 3 Bohemians 0; CSKA Moscow 3 Otago 0; Brentford 3 Lusaka Acad 2; Partick Thistle 3 Craig Bellamy Foundation 1; Co Londonderry 0 Cherry Orchard 2; Co Fermanagh 0 Co Tyrone 0; Co Down 2 Co Antrim 3; Benfica 0 Club America de Mexico 1; Manchester Utd 11 Gold Coast Acad 0.

Craigan's boys win; NI MILK CUP

Besides, digital media titan Arianna Huffington and the billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen, the elite group of editorial staff will comprise of Juan Luis Cebrian, founding editor of El Pais, Dileep Padgaonkar, consulting editor of the Times of India, Yoichi Funabashi, former editor-in-chief of Asahi Shimbun, and Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of eBay.

Digital Media Goes Elite as HuffPo Announces The WorldPost By The Most Powerful

Tokyo, Dec 13, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - FUNABASHI MORINO CITY, an eco-friendly town development project undertaken by Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and Nomura Real Estate Development Co.

FUNABASHI MORINO CITY Wins World Smart Cities Award

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the PAC-3 units were deployed to the Defense Ministry's headquarters in Ichigaya in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, as well as the Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Asaka in Tokyo's Nerima Ward and Camp Narashino in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, reports the Japan Times.

Japan deploys PAC-3 batteries in face of North Korea missile attack threat

now runs offices in Tokyo and Osaka with production sites in Funabashi and Honjo.