Posted on 14 December 2014. Tags: Tokyo, Music, beat, guide, Dining, insider’s Eat to the beat: a music insider’s guide to dining out in Tokyo I’m in Tokyo at the end of one of the music scene’s biggest months for international gigs. Artists such as Tom Tom Club, Carl Craig and Gerd Janson have come […]
Posted on 28 June 2014. Tags: Tokyo, Clothes, above, club, proposed, .Dancing Tokyo clothes off: New Lap Dancing Club proposed above Tokyo Plans for a new lap-dancing club above Tokyo have raised concerns over the club’s future as a YUSU club night venue. If the club was to open, it would operate above Tokyo with […]
Posted on 03 August 2014. Tags: Tokyo, jump, Amid, Olympics, Costs, shortage, Construction, labour Tokyo Olympics costs jump amid construction labour shortage Abenomics, Shinzo Abe’s quest to bring growth and inflation back to Japan, has thrown a spanner in the works of Tokyo’s preparations to host the 2020 Olympic Games as a chronic labour shortage […]
Posted on 15 August 2014. Tags: Tokyo, Before, Rant, Lady, Gaga, Twitter, Going, America, braless, slamming, … Lady Gaga is braless in Tokyo before going on Twitter rant slamming America … Lady Gaga may be a proud American but she’s not happy with how her country treats artists and claims people in the US only […]
Posted on 04 August 2014. Tags: Tokyo’s, disputed, Beijing, naming, isles, farce Tokyo’s naming of disputed isles a farce: Beijing TOKYO: China’s state media on Sunday slammed Japan’s move to name islands at the edge of its territorial waters claimed by Beijing as a “farce,” saying they already had Chinese names. Tokyo on Friday named […]
Posted on 10 August 2014. Tags: Tokyo, 2020, 2011, earthquake, Relay, region, reinspire, devastated, … Tokyo 2020 use relay to re-inspire region devastated by 2011 earthquake and … Tokyo 2020’s commitment to using the power and the values of sport to re-inspire disaster-affected areas has been showcased by the completion of a 1000 kilometre relay […]
Posted on 03 July 2014. Tags: Tokyo, 2020, Games, Launches, ahead, young, Training, program, volunteer Tokyo launches young volunteer training program ahead of 2020 Games The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has opened applications for a new summer seminar project that will prepare a cohort of young volunteers to act as guides for the growing number of […]
Posted on 06 June 2014. Tags: Tokyo, Owners, Travel, tours, Toys, Can’t, whose Tokyo tours for toys whose owners can’t travel A Japanese travel agency has started taking teddies on tours in place of owners unable to travel. Pictures are taken of the toys and uploaded online for the proud owners to see. It’s hoped […]
Posted on 19 August 2014. Tags: Disaster, Tokyo’s, residents, Play, good, days, death, parks, Cheat, … In Tokyo’s “Disaster Parks” Residents Play on Good Days and Cheat Death on … We don’t know exactly how fires in Japan’s capital city, today named Tokyo, earned the sardonic nickname “flowers,” but we do know that they were […]
Posted on 15 August 2014. Tags: Tokyo, from, doom, earthquakes, faults, Stressing, SlowSlip, Portend Stressing Faults From Slow-Slip Earthquakes May Portend Doom For Tokyo To monitor slow slip in the region, scientists are tracking the surface motion of the Boso Peninsula on the eastern side of Tokyo Bay, where the Philippine Plate plunges beneath the […]