Posted on 15 February 2015. Tags: Event, Garden, Premier, Steam, Steampunk, through, Time, Tokyo’s, Travel Steam Garden 8: Travel through time at Tokyo’s premier steampunk event … As we promised a few weeks ago, we swung by Steam Garden 8: Meiji Democracy and took in the sights and sounds! With more photos than your Facebook […]
Posted on 25 September 2014. Tags: Affect, Japan’s, Japanese, plans, Putin’s, sanctions, Tokyo, visit New Japanese Sanctions Will Not Affect Plans for Putin’s Tokyo Visit: Japan’s … And we adhere to the position that we would like to play a part in the resolution of the situation in Ukraine together with Russia,” Suga said at […]
Posted on 13 August 2014. Tags: 2020, could, heat, Olympics, summer, Tokyo Tokyo Summer Heat Could Fry 2020 Olympics If global warming trends and the effect of the “urban heat island” — a metropolitan area that is significantly hotter than its surrounding areas — continue, Tokyo won’t be any cooler for the 2020 games, which […]
Posted on 12 August 2014. Tags: Amid, Calm, chaos, lesson, Tokyo, Travel Calm amid Tokyo chaos is a lesson in travel “Organised chaos” is probably the best description of Tokyo that I can think of… and there is nothing quite so organised or chaotic, at times, as travelling by train in Japan’s capital. The carriages […]
Posted on 10 August 2014. Tags: ‘damaging’, blames, Foreign, meeting, ministers’, Rare, Seoul, ties, Tokyo Seoul blames Tokyo for ‘damaging’ ties at rare foreign ministers’ meeting But he also harshly criticized Japan for “gravely damaging the two countries’ relations,” referring to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and the Abe administration’s […]
Posted on 05 August 2014. Tags: Djerba, Images, Look, SLIDESHOW, Stockholm, Tokyo, Week, Worldwide Worldwide images of the week: A look at Djerba, Stockholm, Tokyo (SLIDESHOW) A person dressed as a cartoon character uses a cell phone to take a photograph of tourists with other characters July 28, 2014 in New York’s Times Square. Guatemala […]
Posted on 28 July 2014. Tags: flight, Francisco, from, Seconds, Tokyo, TransPacific, Watch Watch: A Trans-Pacific Flight From Tokyo to San Francisco in 84 Seconds A flight from Tokyo to San Francisco usually takes about 9 hours and 35 minutes, but the video above compiles over 3,400 images to create an 84-second timelapse of the […]
Posted on 07 July 2014. Tags: dreaming, Dubai, Kuala, Lumpur, Tokyo Kuala Lumpur, dreaming of Dubai or Tokyo Over the next six years a string of mega-projects will once more transform the city centre with the ambition to make rivaling with other large world metropolis such as Dubai or Tokyo. Some of the largest projects […]
Posted on 25 June 2014. Tags: apologizes, assembly, City, heckling, lawmaker, meeting, Over, sexist, Tokyo Tokyo city lawmaker apologizes over sexist heckling at assembly meeting Tokyo city assemblyman Akihiro Suzuki bows to his female counterpart Ayaka Shiomura for an apology at Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall in Tokyo Monday, June 23, 2014. Suzuki from Prime Minister […]
Posted on 23 June 2014. Tags: …, Despite, harassment, leadership, metropolitan, nothing, public, Tokyo Leadership does nothing despite public harassment of Tokyo Metropolitan … Sexual harassment in the workplace is always a problem–there’s nothing to debate in that statement. But it becomes a doubly serious problem when you’re a politician and your workplace is the […]