Tokyo And Osaka: Gearing Up To Be The Next Vegas

Posted on 11 February 2015. Tags: balked, channel, crisis, hostage, Islamic, opening, peak, State, Tokyo At hostage crisis peak, Tokyo balked at opening channel with Islamic State … Japan opened a communication channel with Islamic State in the decisive stages of the recent hostage crisis but was unwilling to use it to start negotiations, according […]

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, […]

Posted on 24 February 2015. Tags: Amid, Farm, funds, Japan’s, Minister, Political, questions, resigns Japan’s farm minister resigns amid political funds questions Japan’s Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koya Nishikawa, center, speaks to the reporters at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. Minister Nishikawa has resigned following questions over his […]

Posted on 22 March 2015. Tags: Alice, Disneyland’s, Facepalm, Japanese, Might, News, thinks, Tokyo, Twittersphere Facepalm News: Japanese Twittersphere thinks Tokyo Disneyland’s Alice might … The Japanese Internet thinks there’s something strange in Wonderland these days, if a handful of photos doing the rounds on Twitter are any indication. A Disneyland enthusiast – of which […]

Newsweek Gentrification, from Tokyo to Pittsburgh Newsweek The battle in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles between neighborhood activists and art gallery owners who’ve come from elsewhere is similar to those being fought in cities around the world. This is a fight about the most basic urban … Original published: 2017-05-22 01:10:00 Read the […]

Posted on 29 March 2015. Tags: ‘Floating, Beautiful, Exactly, Flower, Garden’, Thing—Which, Tokyo’s Tokyo’s New ‘Floating Flower Garden’ Is a Beautiful Thing—Which Is Exactly … Did you enjoy the art installation “Rain Room” a few years back at MoMA PS1, but think that it had too much rain and not enough flowers? Tokyo has you […]