Park Hyatt, Shinjuku, Tokyo. – Tokyo Picture

Posted on 25 February 2015. Tags: 2015, Finishers, Marathon, Men’s, Results, Tokyo, women’s Tokyo Marathon 2015 Results: Men’s and Women’s Top Finishers It was a big day for Ethiopia at the 2015 Tokyo Marathon, as a pair of runners from the African nation took home the top spots in the men’s and women’s division of […]

Posted on 16 November 2013. Tags: CanadaJapan, courts, Hard, Played, Tokyo Canada-Japan tie to be played on hard courts in Tokyo TOKYO — Canada’s first-round Davis Cup tennis tie will be played in Tokyo early next year. The Japan Tennis Federation has chosen Ariake Colosseum and an indoor hard court for its Jan. 31-Feb. 2 […]

Posted on 03 May 2015. Tags: ‘impurity’, districts, Investigating, leatherwork, marginalized, Tokyo’s Investigating ‘impurity’ in Tokyo’s marginalized leatherwork districts “How is it that both Texan leather and a Texan anthropologist ended up at the same tannery north of Tokyo?” author Joseph Hankins asks. The synchronicity resulted in the writer abandoning a project on language use […]

Posted on 31 December 2014. Tags: Coming, Japanese, Little, Rites, Shinto, shrine, Tokyo, Tradition, year Shinto Shrine Coming to Little Tokyo for Tradition Japanese New Year Rites Visitors to Little Tokyo on Thursday are invited to come and pray, and experience a Japanese-style New Year. In conjunction with the Oshogatsu in Little Tokyo celebrations on […]

Posted on 01 April 2015. Tags: adds, Aviation, from, Narita, Peach, routes, Tokyo Peach Aviation adds two new routes from Tokyo Narita Peach Aviation increased its presence at Tokyo Narita with the launch on 29 March of daily flights to both Fukuoka and Sapporo Chitose. Direct competition on both routes is intense, notably from rival […]

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 04 May 2014. Tags: Continues, Disney, grow, Park, Shanghai, spending, theme, Tokyo Disney theme park spending continues to grow… in Shanghai and Tokyo In Tokyo, the Disney Co.’s share of the new investment will be $ 0, as Tokyo Disney is wholly owned and operated by the Oriental Land Company [OLC], which pays […]