标题: Japanese Elevators to Have Toilet and Water [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-3-2015 10:56 标题: Japanese Elevators to Have Toilet and Water Ministry to Require Portable Toilets, Drinking Water in Elevators. Kyodo News, June 3, 2015. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/0 ... r-portable-toilets/
Note:
(a) Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism 国土交通省
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Land,_Infrastructure,_Transport_and_Tourism
(MLIT; section 1 Background)
(b) "The earthquake occurred at a very deep point off the Ogasawara Islands, around 1,000 km south of Tokyo, registering upper-5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale to 7 in Ogasawara and Ninomiya, a town in the eastern part of Kanagawa Prefecture."
(i) Bonin Islands
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonin_Islands
("Bonin" in English but Ogasawara Islands 小笠原群島 in Japanese)
(ii) Ninomiya, Kanagawa 神奈川県 二宮町
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninomiya,_Kanagawa
I can not find the origin of the place name. However, Ninomiya literally means two Shinto shrines (miya 宮 = shrine; "no" is meaningless). The Japanese Wiki page lists two shrines: Kawawa Shrine 川勾神社 and Azuma Shrine 吾妻神社.
(iii) Kanagawa Prefecture is the southern neighbor of Tokyo.
(iv) "registering upper-5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale"
Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency_seismic_intensity_scale
(used in Japan and Taiwan ; compare: the outdated Richter Scale)