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Posted on 06 April 2015. Tags: district, partnerships, recognize, samesex, Shibuya, steps, Takes, Tokyo’s Tokyo’s Shibuya district takes steps to recognize same-sex partnerships Taiga Ishikawa, Tokyo councillor and the first male gay local assembly member in Japan, told CNN the ordinance was a “big first step for the protection of human rights.” He called the […]

Posted on 28 September 2015. Tags: 125th, Anniversary, Hotel, Imperial, landmark, Reaches, renovation, Tokyo’s Tokyo’s Landmark Imperial Hotel Reaches 125th Anniversary, Renovation in … TOKYO, Sept. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Imperial Hotel, Ltd. announced on September 25 that the Japanese capital’s legendary Imperial Hotel is celebrating its 125th year of uninterrupted business this November 3 […]

Posted on 05 May 2014. Tags: Anne, Books, Display, donated, Frank, hope, library, Message, sends, Tokyo Tokyo library sends message of hope with display of donated Anne Frank books A library in Tokyo is displaying 40 books about Anne Frank that were donated after vandalism targeting works related to the young Holocaust victim was uncovered […]

Posted on 20 February 2015. Tags: About, Little, Manichi, Ramen, raving, Tokyo’s, worth Ramen at Little Tokyo’s Manichi is worth raving about After walking down the streets of Little Tokyo and inhaling the surrounding aromas of customary Asian dishes, my friends and I narrowed down our lunch plans to a good ramen place nearby. One […]

Posted on 17 February 2015. Tags: first, Impressions, Tokyo First impressions of Tokyo Leading up to my flight across the Pacific Ocean to start my semester abroad, I had no idea what to feel about my (then) upcoming trip to Tokyo and no clue what sort of atmosphere I should expect to feel from the […]

The News (subscription) Typhoons, Tokyo and Nagasaki The News (subscription) Godbee sailed into Tokyo Bay the day before Christmas 1945. Toyko was the biggest city in the world at that time. The day after Christmas, he visited MacArthur’s headquarters. Then, he stood in Nagasaki where the atomic bomb had exploded 152-feet above … Original published: 2017-05-04 […]

Posted on 02 June 2015. Tags: could, expanded, Homeland, open, operations, preclearance, Security, Tokyo Homeland Security expanded pre-clearance operations could open Tokyo to … The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that the U.S. has entered into negotiations to expand air pre-clerance operation to 10 foreign airports, including Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, which would […]