Posted on 23 May 2014. Tags: needed, reform, Sony, sooner CEO: Sony needed to act sooner, but will reform Sony Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai speaks during a press conference at the Sony headquarters in Tokyo, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Hirai is acknowledging the company racked up losses and will stay in […]
Posted on 20 May 2014. Tags: down, exporters, Fall, financials, rises, Shares, Tokyo Tokyo Shares End Down as Yen Rises, Exporters, Financials Fall TOKYO–Tokyo stocks fell Monday in light trading as a rise in the yen and a dearth of positive trading cues sent exporters and financial shares lower. Traders expressed little hope that either […]
Posted on 28 April 2014. Tags: …, ‘That’s, Dines, good, Jiro, Legendary, Obama, some, Sukiyabashi, sushi, Tokyo’s Obama Dines At Tokyo’s Legendary Sukiyabashi Jiro: ‘That’s Some Good Sushi … President Obama started his trip to Asia in a way that has made foodies everywhere jealous: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took him to Sukiyabashi Jiro, […]
Posted on 29 May 2014. Tags: ‘Tokyo, Crowd, GRAND, Guignol’, I’d, Like, Really, Sourced I’d Really Like to See ‘Tokyo Grand Guignol’ Get Crowd Sourced Blood, a sadomaso werewolf, giallo, time travel and insane Tokyo landscapes are what are being promised in this new horror anthology already being filmed (and close to completion). Entitled Tokyo […]
Posted on 31 May 2014. Tags: bookstore, Doubles, Foreign, Kinokuniya, Number, Titles, Tokyo’s Tokyo’s top Kinokuniya bookstore doubles its number of foreign titles For Japanese living or traveling abroad, a Kinokuniya bookstore can be a source of information, a gathering spot and a comforting link to home. With the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics not far […]
Posted on 15 May 2014. Tags: Asia, blog, Drag, kind, LIVE, stocks, Tokyo’s Asia Stocks live blog: Tokyo’s kind of a drag Welcome to the Asia Stocks live blog, a running account of what the region’s share markets are doing, along with other news. Today, Japan stocks fall on a strengthening yen and Sony’s projection […]
Posted on 02 June 2014. Tags: Hidden, Nightlife, Tokyo, wacky, Weird, wonders Weird and wacky: the hidden wonders of Tokyo nightlife For sheer volume and surreal other-worldliness that will leave you blinking, nowhere compares to Tokyo. Where else can you start the evening with psychedelic dinner theatre, sample some of the best beer and whisky […]
Posted on 02 June 2014. Tags: …, customers, princes, princesses…, servers, Tokyo The Tokyo bar where servers are princes, customers are princesses… and … At Bar Prince, in Tokyo’s Nakano ward, the boyish-looking staff in ruffle-trimmed “little prince” outfits are all cross-dressers. The bar operates a strict women-only policy which extends to staff as well […]
Posted on 10 June 2014. Tags: 2020, Olympic, revealed, stadium, Tokyo Tokyo 2020: New Olympic Stadium revealed Over 40,000 people crowded into Tokyo’s National Stadium on Saturday to bid farewell to an arena originally built for the city’s 1964 Summer Olympics. In its place a new stadium for the 2020 Games will be built which […]
Posted on 21 May 2014. Tags: cancels, Concert, down, McCartney, Paul, Tokyo, virus Down with a virus, Paul McCartney cancels Tokyo concert TOKYO — Paul McCartney came down with a virus and canceled his Tokyo concert Saturday, but he added a performance to make up for the lost show. “I am very sorry to all […]