Posted on 30 December 2014. Tags: Amid, Ebola, Fall, Japan, Report, Shares, Tested, Tokyo Japan Shares Fall Amid Report Tokyo Man Tested for Ebola Japanese shares fell, reversing gains from the morning session, following a report a man is being tested for Ebola in Tokyo. Oil and coal producers and developers led declines among the […]
Posted on 23 December 2014. Tags: Decline, Industry, Japan’s, sake, Sales, toasts, U.S., wine U.S. wine industry toasts decline in Japan’s sake sales “The Japanese love to drink,” said Bill Campbell, the owner and chief executive officer of Hotei Wines, a top Tokyo importer of California wine. “People are drinking more wine in general, and […]
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 07 July 2014. Tags: Japan, Kyushu, Mover, Report, restart, rise, Tokyo, Units, Utilities Japan Utilities Rise on Kyushu Units Restart Report: Tokyo Mover Kyushu Electric Power Co. (9508) surged to its highest level in more than three months, leading gains among Japanese utilities, after the Sankei newspaper reported the restart of two of […]
Posted on 13 March 2015. Tags: JGBs, profit, Rally, Shares, slip, taking, Tokyo JGBs slip on profit taking, rally in Tokyo shares TOKYO, March 13 (Reuters) – Japanese government bond prices slipped on Friday as profit taking set in following the previous day’s surge, with a rally in Tokyo shares also denting the appeal of […]
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 06 February 2015. Tags: Highlight, Itself, Japan, Join, Killings, Must, terrorist, Tokyo’s, world Japan Must Join The World And Arm Itself: Terrorist Killings Highlight Tokyo’s … Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been edging Japan into global affairs. And his country paid a price: the Islamic State murdered two Japanese hostages, Kenji Goto and […]
Posted on 27 March 2015. Tags: Cult, daughter, Doomsday, Japan’s, Leader, memoir, speaks Daughter of Japan’s doomsday cult leader speaks out in memoir On March 20, 1995, cult members punctured plastic bags containing sarin nerve gas on three Tokyo subway lines during morning rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 6,300. Of the 299 survivors […]
Posted on 18 November 2014. Tags: 2.6%, beckons, enters, Japan, lose, markets, Recession, Shares, Tokyo Bad day beckons for markets: Tokyo shares lose 2.6% as Japan enters recession The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which closed at its highest level in more than seven years on Friday, fell 453.18 points to 17,037.65, […]
Posted on 22 January 2015. Tags: Black, gyoza, Little, lunch, Manichi, opens, Ramen, salaryman, Tokyo, tonkotsu Ramen Manichi opens in Little Tokyo: black tonkotsu, gyoza, salaryman lunch Sure, you can go to Torrance, Gardena or Sawtelle for excellent ramen, but there’s something lovely and almost old school about slurping a bowl of the hot noodle […]