At least 169 people were injured in Kanto area, which includes Tokyo, after heavy snow hit eastern and northern Japan early on Monday.
A tiny Tokyo noodle shop has joined the ranks of the world’s top restaurants after it scooped up a star from the respected Michelin Guide.
Taxis can often be a lifeline, particularly for a tourist with no sense of direction who has become hopelessly lost in a bustling megapolis like Tokyo.
With doomsday-like scenes plaguing Japan over the past few days following devastating floods in Joso City in Ibaraki Prefecture which washed hundreds of homes away, a rattling earthquake in Tokyo Bay which rocked the capital and yet another volcano erupting Monday, experts and citizens alike are bracing themselves for more of nature's fury.
Tokyo stocks fell 1.09 percent in the morning session of Wednesday after the central bank of China's surprise steep devaluation of the yuan the previous day.
Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced Tuesday that a senior official in charge of the controversial construction of a new national stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will step down, as public condemnation grows following the government flip- flopping on the stadium's design plans.
Tokyo shares inch down by break on concerns over Greece's default
Tokyo stocks end slightly lower amid Greece fears
Tokyo shares erased losses in the morning and rebounded higher by break Friday as sentiment here was boosted by a bright outlook for Japanese companies heading into a new fiscal year in April.
The Tokyo metropolitan government Tuesday announced moves to support development of fuel cell vehicles (FCV), including increasing the number of hydrogen stations for FCVs and providing subsidies for hydrogen stations and FCV purchases.
Tokyo shares rebounded by ending the morning session Thursday on a solid report of Japan's core machinery orders and growing hopes that the planned sales tax hike might be delayed.
The U.S. dollar changed hands at the upper 114 yen level early Thursday in Tokyo, remaining at a seven- year high hit overnight in New York on U.S. midterm election results.
Tokyo stocks opened higher early Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to end its asset buying stimulus on the heels of continued improvement in the labor market the previous day.
Tokyo stocks opened slightly lower early Tuesday morning on selling after a nearly 4-percent rally the previous day.
Tokyo shares plunged by opening the trading Friday with its benchmark Nikkei stocks index hit a nearly two-month low after a big drop in the overnight U.S. stocks market.
Tokyo shares opened higher on Monday, tracing a buoyant overnight performance in the U.S. stocks market which was boosted by an upward revision of U.S. gross domestic product data for the second quarter of 2014.
Tokyo stocks opened lower on early Wednesday morning, with investor sentiment undermined by Japan's weaker-than-expected core machinery orders data for July released before the opening quotation.
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