WACOAL CORP. TO OPEN 4TH "KYO NO ONDOKORO," KYOTO-STYLE CLASSICAL TOWNHOUSE, ON MARCH 30, 2019; ACCOMMODATION LIMITED TO 1 GROUP PER FACILITY

KYOTO, Japan, Mar. 7, 2019 /Kyodo JBN - AsiaNet / --

-- Allowing Guests to Feel As If They Were Living in Ancient Capital --

Wacoal Corp. will open its fourth "Kyo no Ondokoro," a townhouse created by renovating a traditional Kyoto-style traditional house, in the South of Kyoto Imperial Palace on March 30, 2019.

All of Wacoal's four Kyo no Ondokoro townhouses are conveniently located as starting points for sightseeing in the ancient capital. Guests can exclusively use the townhouses during their stays and feel as if they were living in this old city.

Kyo no Ondokoro's official website:
https://www.kyo-ondokoro.kyoto/en/

Photo1: "Kyo no Ondokoro FUYACHO-NIJO" Opens 30, Mar, 2019
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Wacoal launched the Kyo no Ondokoro project in an effort to solve a social challenge Kyoto faces -- decreasing Kyoto-style traditional houses. The company leases such townhouses and remodels them into accommodation. After being used as accommodations for more than 10 years, the structures will be returned to their owners following renovation. Kyo no Ondokoro are designed to suit the lifestyles of Japanese people so that their owners can live there after the structures are used as accommodations for over a decade.

Therefore, visitors to Kyoto can contribute to the preservation of the ancient capital's streetscape by staying at Kyo no Ondokoro.

While preserving the exteriors of Kyoto-style traditional houses from which people can feel the history of the ancient capital, the interiors of the townhouses have been renovated to suit the modern lifestyles. All the Kyo no Ondokoro townhouses are equipped with floor-heating systems to allow guests to stay there comfortably in winter and have bedrooms with wooden floors.

Since the townhouses are designed as residences, various ideas have been incorporated in the structures to allow guests to feel familiar with Kyoto as if they were living there and to give them a joy of staying in this old city.

For example, each of the Kyo no Ondokoro townhouses has a user-friendly kitchen, which is equipped with not only pots, frying pans and other cooking devices but also dishes and bowls. Guests can buy local ingredients at markets and enjoy cooking as part of their trips to Japan.

Wacoal also provides guests with information on recommended restaurants and tourist spots that meet their needs. The townhouses, which are fully equipped with Wi-Fi, washing machines with dryers and clothes irons, are suitable for long stays.

Overview of Kyo no Ondokoro
-Price: 50,000 yen to 100,000 yen per building (consumption tax not included;
 depending on the number of guests and season)
-Capacity: 8 guests at the maximum (depending on the facility)
-Check-in: from 4:00 p.m. (Check-in accepted at the front desk at Wacoal New
 Kyoto Building from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
-Check-out: until 11:00 a.m.
-For inquiries, visit:
https://my.wacoal.jp/product/member/CMmEntryform.jsp?ENTRYFORM_NO=3001

Main additional services
-- Keeping and transporting suitcases and other baggage.
-- Providing information on shops around the townhouses and tourist spots,
   among other information (concierge services)


Overview of each of the Kyo no Ondokoro townhouses:
https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/attach/201903063921-O1-6P1lL73v.pdf

(Photos: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/201903063921?p=images)

*"Kyo no Ondokoro" is Wacoal Corp.'s registered trademark.

SOURCE: Wacoal Corp.

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​HITACHI VANTARA DOUBLES DOWN ON PARTNER BUSINESS, DRIVES GROWTH ACROSS ROBUST ECOSYSTEM

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 5 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today highlighted the investments and progress the company has made in its partner business that have netted the company and its partners significant growth over the last year. As Hitachi Vantara continues its transformation to help customers maximize the value of their data, the company has invested significantly in its partner business as a critical component for growth.  

Most recently, the new Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure demonstrate the steps Hitachi Vantara is taking to address market demand through collaboration with and investment in its strategic relationships. In September 2018, Hitachi Vantara delivered VSP PRO solutions, which are simplified, partner-optimized configurations of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP). The revamped Hitachi Vantara Partner Program, launched in April 2018, includes new competencies, delivery models, enablement and incentives. These initiatives demonstrate the increased focus Hitachi Vantara is placing on its partner ecosystem to successfully deliver solutions that help customers address their transformation challenges.

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ADARA LAUNCHES DESTINATION MARKETING CLOUD

Tourism Companies can Learn, Act, Measure & Modify in a Single Suite

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 4 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ADARA, the world’s travel data co-op and leading provider of traveler intelligence for travel brands, today announced ADARA Destination Marketing Cloud, a comprehensive insights, execution and analysis suite of products to transform tourism marketing. The Destination Marketing Cloud enables destination marketers to apply traveler behavior intelligence across the Learn, Act, Measure and Modify process to win share of wallet and increase lifetime value. Created for tourism brands, the Destination Marketing Cloud delivers robust searching and booking insights ensuring more accurate messaging, personalization, targeting and insights.

“We are excited about the ADARA Destination Marketing Cloud providing us a much more complete view of our tourism market to inform our entire marketing strategy and process,” said Leroy Bridges, Vice President of Digital & Communications at Visit St Pete/Clearwater (Florida).  “This new direction from ADARA enables us to confidently plan, target, optimize and analyze our marketing initiatives based on a more complete understanding of searching and booking behaviors for all of our current and future guests.”

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​SAGE METALS ACQUIRES JAYCO MANUFACTURING

NEW YORK, March 1 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sage Metals Private Limited (“Sage”), a portfolio company of Delos Capital (“Delos”) and a leading manufacturer of specialty metal products, has announced the acquisition of Jayco Manufacturing, LLC (“Jayco”).

Based in Grand Prairie, TX, Jayco engages in the assembly, integration, and production of precision custom metal formed components for a variety of manufacturers primarily based in North America operating in industrial and consumer end markets.

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AM BEST AFFIRMS CREDIT RATINGS OF TUGU INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED

HONG KONG, March 1 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb-” of Tugu Insurance Company Limited (TIC) (Hong Kong). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is negative.

The ratings reflect TIC’s balance sheet strength, which AM Best categorizes as strong, as well as its marginal operating performance, limited business profile and marginal enterprise risk management.

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ABEJA-SMRT partnership steering for safer transportation, accident prevention

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (Bernama) -- ABEJA Singapore Pte. Ltd. (ABEJA Singapore) and Singapore-based major public transport company, SMRT Momentum Ventures Pte Ltd have jointly begun research and development in the safety management area of the transportation industry.

ABEJA Singapore is a local subsidiary company of ABEJA, Inc. (ABEJA), a provider of artificial intelligence solutions leveraging machine learning (ML). SMRT Momentum Ventures Pte. Ltd. is a subsidiary of SMRT Corporation Ltd. (SMRT).

Through the collaboration, ABEJA and SMRT aim to provide safer transportation and prevent accidents by utilising Deep Learning technology.

ABEJA’s core service is the ABEJA Platform, delivered as platform as a service. It leverages ML technology in data gathering, annotation, learning, deployment, inference and re-learning in a variety of fields.

ABEJA Singapore Managing Director, Naoki Tonogi said its technology could contribute infrastructure industry development, in which securing safety weighs heavily on people’s lives.

“Together with SMRT, ABEJA Singapore would like to create an advanced example that contributes to the reinforcement of social infrastructure foundation, which is an issue for overall ASEAN, and will keep working on promoting industrial structure reform.”

ABEJA is a start-up company that promotes business innovation in various industries and scenes utilising their ‘Deep Learning’ technology, which automatically extracts feature values that express the data appropriately without human involvement.

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TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION ACHIEVES VMWARE VSAN™ 6.7 CERTIFICATION FOR PM5 SERIES OF ENTERPRISE SAS SSDS

TOKYO, Feb 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Memory Corporation, the world leader in memory solutions, today announces that the PM5 Series of 12Gbit/s enterprise SAS SSDs has earned VMware vSAN™ 6.7 certification as a storage solution conforming to the virtual infrastructure solutions provided by VMware, Inc.

VMware vSAN is a hypervisor-converged storage platform that realizes high-speed and high-reliability servers & storage, data centers and software defined storage in a VMware vSphere^® environment.

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