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...
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’...
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 ...
In our daily life, it is common for us, as students, to purchase and read so many books during our college life and it is also a common phenomenon for us to discard the books after we used. However, a host of youngsters deem that this is a sort of wasting and thus, the Student U...
American womenwon 66of the country’s113 total medals, or 58.4 percent.1 By total and percentage, those figures are unprecedented since American women first competed in 1900. Of America’s 39 gold medals in Tokyo, women wereresponsible for 23— their fourth-highest total, giving them their se...
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...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and six other hard-hit Japanese prefectures to fortify the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. But this is no European or Wuhan-style lockdown. Here is a look at what Japan’s state
The government, in principle, will pay tourism businesses 35 percent of each canceled trip as compensation for the lost business. “This is a precaution to avoid placing a burden on the health care systems in regions where there are many (COVID-19) patients with severe symptoms,” Akaba said...
At first it was only the honeybees that were decimated -- then the bumblebee populations began to disappear. Bumblebees are responsible for pollinating an estimated 15 percent of all the crops grown in the U.S., worth $3 billion, particularly those raised in greenhouses. Those include tomat...
differentiate the details of a person’s face the same way a human would. With each passing year, AI accuracy improves by 30 –50 percent. It is also used to boost the accuracy and performance of fingerprint recognition, powering biometric devices capable of recognizing even damaged fingerprints...