Posted on 19 April 2015. Tags: April, blue, Donuts, expanding, Japan, opening, star, store, Tokyo Blue Star Donuts expanding to Japan, Tokyo store opening April 17 Blue Star Donuts celebrated the grand opening of its NW 23rd Avenue location on March 18th by giving away free donuts between 3 and 7 p.m., or as long […]
Posted on 06 January 2015. Tags: Bluefin, favourite, Fish, Japan’s, long Bluefin: Japan’s favourite big fish, but for how long? Kiyoshi Kimura, who runs a chain of sushi restaurants, said he was surprised after securing the giant Pacific bluefin tuna for such a low price at the first auction of the year at Tsukiji fish […]
Posted on 23 November 2014. Tags: Hopes, Rebound, Shares, stimulus, Tokyo Tokyo Shares Rebound on Hopes for Stimulus Stocks in Tokyo on Tuesday rebounded from their biggest one-day loss this year, as expectations for stimulus measures in Japan rose, a day after the country reported that its economy slid into recession. The Nikkei Stock Average […]
Posted on 07 March 2015. Tags: Going, Gone, Olympic, stadium, Tokyo’s Tokyo’s Old Olympic Stadium: Going, Going, Gone Work to demolish Tokyo’s Olympic stadium continued Thursday with heavy machinery ripping down stands where spectators once sat and watched the 1964 Summer Games. The demolition work to make way for a new 2020 Olympic Games arena […]
Posted on 30 May 2015. Tags: 2020, battle, OlympicSized, paying, stadium, Tokyo’s, Who’s An Olympic-Sized Battle: Who’s Paying for Tokyo’s 2020 Stadium? The Japanese Diet passed a law Wednesday allowing Abe to bolster his cabinet and appoint a minister to prepare Tokyo for its first Olympics since 1964. Any nominee will be plunged into a […]
Posted on 25 September 2015. Tags: 60000, Afford, Can’t, Centenarians, Japan, More, numbers, than, Tokyo Two Numbers: Japan Has More Than 60000 Centenarians, and Tokyo Can’t Afford … Getting old is getting old in Japan. The government has a tradition of presenting Japanese centenarians with the gift of a sakazuki, a silver sake cup, in […]
Posted on 26 September 2015. Tags: cities, Fleets, Greener, lifts, seek, Taxi, Tokyo’s, Tomorrow Tokyo’s Taxi of Tomorrow Lifts Bar as Cities Seek Greener Fleets Tokyo’s taxi companies will shift as much as 30 percent of their fleets to an LPG-powered hybrid from Toyota Motor Corp. by 2020, raising the bar for the world’s biggest […]
Posted on 24 May 2015. Tags: Cast, Dressed, Ghoul, Play, stage, Tokyo The Tokyo Ghoul Stage Play Cast All Dressed Up These days, many popular anime and games get live action-stage play adaptations—including Tokyo Ghoul. And let me say, the cast doesn’t look half-bad in costume. Steins;Gate Gets a Live-Action Play and It’s Terrific Steins;Gate […]
Posted on 08 September 2015. Tags: 2020, Amid, Controversy, Logo, Olympic, plagiarism, scrapped, Tokyo Tokyo 2020 Olympic logo scrapped amid plagiarism controversy This isn’t the first controversy to hit the Tokyo Olympics. In July, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the country would scrap plans for an expensive new stadium for the 2020 showpiece. Abe said […]
Posted on 12 March 2015. Tags: Asia, bucks, Losses, regional, rest, slump, Tokyo, track Tokyo bucks regional slump; rest of Asia track US losses Among Japanese automakers, Nissan (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 7201.T-JP) led declines with a 1 percent slump, while Honda (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 7267.T-JP) and Suzuki Motor (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 7269.T-JP) sold off 0.8 […]