The digital payments company Visa has signed a five-year agreement with MP2 Energy, a subsidiary of Shell North America, to buy 100 percent renewable electricity to power its largest data centre in the US state of Virginia. Shell acquires virtual power plant operator Next Kraftwerke Feb 25, 20...
In this article Day 1: Eastern Kyoto Day 2: Western Kyoto Summer activities Hotel information and access Kyoto, the old capital of Japan, has long been a top travel destination for visitors to Japan. The city contains many well preserved historical sights compared to the other major urban citi...
Our network and consumer devices have evolved to a point that our old congestion management system is no longer necessary. The system has been essentially inactive for more than a year. With well over 99 percent of our Internet customers using more...
Though there are manydefinitions of the term “continent,”it is generally used to identify large distinct landmasses that make up our planet’s surface. The world’s land in total has over 57 million square miles of land according to the National Geographic Society. What we know as earth’...
of saving and helping others. This project was launched on our campus newspaper one week ago and the activity of collecting books was held on the playground yesterday. More than 200 students, including me, participated in it. It is said that part of the collected books in this project will...
Japan is home to ten percent of the world’s active volcanoes, so it’s a great place to experience one of these living mountains first-hand. Where else could you see an eruption in progress, a bubbling crater lake, buildings half-buried in lava, and mountain peaks that didn’t even ex...
In the waning years of the Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.), Japan had a population of 75,800, of whom a whopping 52 percent were estimated to live in the Tohoku region, according to Hiroshi Kito's
Of America’s 39 gold medals in Tokyo, women were responsible for 23— their fourth-highest total, giving them their second-highest share in history (59 percent). The International Olympic Committee marketed this as the first ever gender-balanced Olympic Games, with women representing nearly ...
Bubble charts can be an effective way to show how different values compare to each other, with larger bubbles representing larger values. For example, a chart showing the populations of the 10 largest cities in the world would include a larger bubble for Tokyo, Japan, which has about 37 mill...
Seventy percent of the merchant ships were sunk or damaged. As a result, Britain lost the sea supremacy (霸权). Though victorious, Britain came out of the war with a huge national debt. Business was slack (萧条的),many factories were closed down and taxes soared. The Great Depression from...