Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will serve as a top adviser to a panel supporting Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda said Thursday that Noda was asked to assume the post and for the government to give its full support to the bid.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Friday escalated its warning to financial markets against testing the yen's upside further, with the finance ministry signaling that Tokyo may not wait for too long with action if the currency keeps climbing.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to install a silt barrier in the sea to stop the leak of radioactive water from its crippled nuclear station, after an attempt to clog a crack with a mixture of sawdust, newspaper and plastic failed.
&$ &$A man is silhouetted in front of a stock index board outside a brokerage in Tokyo January 22, 2010. The benchmark Nikkei average slid 2.7 percent and the broader TOPIX fell 1.9 percent on Friday. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)&$ &$ Japan's Nikkei Stock Average slumped 2.56 percent on Friday following a U.S. government proposal to impose tougher regulations on banks to reduce risk taking.
White Rabbit Press is proud to release the world’s first professionally-produced audio guided walking tour for Tokyo’s Akihabara district. (PRWeb Jan 22, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/akihabara/tour/prweb3481834.htm
White Rabbit Press is proud to release the world’s first professionally-produced audio guided walking tour for Tokyo’s Akihabara district.
TOKYO, JAPAN - Japanese share prices plunged by more than two per cent in early trading Friday as investors worried over US plans to limit the size and scope of banks and finance firms.
TOKYO, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Japanese chip-making equipment company Tokyo Electron said on Friday it would resume the construction of a plant in northern Japan as it sees a recovery in the market. The company said it has decided to start the construction of the plant in Miyagi in the summer of this year, with production scheduled to begin sometime after spring 2011. The amount to be invested ...
TOKYO (BP)—“Five-minute English! Five-minute English! Do you want to practice your English?” a college intern asked outside a busy Tokyo subway station as 27 teenage MKs—sons and daughters of Southern Baptist missionaries—looked on.
TOKYO, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co <5423.T>, Japan's top maker of construction steel, warned on Friday that it would post an annual operating loss due to higher materials costs, dashing analysts' expectations for a profit.