This Blog “From Sapporo Sparkle” is started to tell our present circumstance and problem that we face. After that, we told you what happened in the cherry blossom season in Tokyo and the businesses and IT trend in Japan. A year has past since we started this blog. We express a feeling of gratitude and [...]

The high-speed rail accident in China reminds us of the high reliability of Jpanese Bullet Train, Shinkansen. The Shinkansen never had a fatal accident causing injury or death in 45 years operation. The high-speed railway is operated by the combination of systems including the railway traffic, the operation control, the railway signaling and the monitor. [...]

During this time of year in Japan, there are many summer festivals. From the north to the south, each area has its own summer festival that it celebrates with splendor. However this year, there is a special summer festival called “Tohoku Rokkon Festival”. The summer festival of the six souls of the Tohoku(northeast region of [...]

We have experienced many things through the March 11 earthquake. We lost so many important things and have been beaten badly and overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness. But we found some hopes in the experience of the earthquake. People’s genuine efforts made us very proud. “What we learn from the disaster of the earthquake”, [...]

According to the report, countless aftershocks of the March 11 earthquake are measured, and 408 of them are magnitude 5 or greater(as of April 12). On April 11, just one month after the March 11 earthquake, a magnitude 6 earthquake struck the Northeastern coast of mainland Japan. There are numerous aftershocks between magnitude 1 to [...]