tokyo – Tokyo Picture

Posted on 11 May 2015. Tags: 5.7magnitude, Japan, Quake, southsoutheast, strikes, USGS 5.7-magnitude quake strikes south-southeast of Japan: USGS TOKYO: The Japanese meteorology agency issued a tsunami warning early Sunday (May 3) following a magnitude 5.9 quake in the Pacific south of Tokyo. The quake hit near Torishima island, some 600 kilometres south of Tokyo, […]

Evening Standard Tokyo: where to stay, eat and drink Evening Standard Yes, it was… a tiny bit of Mt Fuji, which looked like it was right in the heart of downtown Tokyo, rather than almost 100km away. Below was Tsukiji, where men were moving boxes of fish and whizzing round on little electric vehicles, not […]

Posted on 19 October 2014. Tags: Games, Hayes, Schollander, Spectacular, Tokyo, were Schollander, Hayes were spectacular at Tokyo Games The 1964 Tokyo Olympics had a profound impact on the capital city and the nation. In the third installment of a five-part series running this month, best-selling author Robert Whiting, who lived in Japan at the […]

Posted on 11 September 2014. Tags: break, Buoyant, Dollar, firm, higher, Market, Shares, Tokyo Tokyo shares end higher by break on buoyant US market, firm dollar Tokyo shares end higher by break on buoyant US market, firm dollar. Sep 11,2014. TOKYO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) — Tokyo stocks ended the morning session Thursday higher, supported by […]

Sony Corp will cut 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, by as early as the year-end, the Nikkei newspaper reported… Sony Corp will cut 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, by as early as the year-end, the Nikkei newspaper reported… Elpida Memory Inc., which filed for bankruptcy […]

Posted on 20 August 2014. Tags: bunkers, Disaster, Green, Hidden, hitech, parks, spaces, Survival, Tokyo’s, Under Tokyo’s disaster parks: hi-tech survival bunkers hidden under green spaces In the 20th century, roughly one million of the Tokyo residents who survived the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake did so because they escaped to tracts of forest and farmland. […]

Dollar bounces back above ¥111.50 in Tokyo trading The Japan Times The dollar bounced back above ¥111.50 in Tokyo trading Wednesday, following a hawkish remark by the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.94-94, up from ¥111.20-20 at the same time on Tuesday. The euro … and […]