Tokyo Business

2012-05-17T00:57:15Z
The Tokyo Skytree, twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, opens next week as Japanese train operators counter an aging population by building malls, offices and tourist attractions. The 634-meter (2,080 feet) structure in eastern Tokyo sits in a ...
2012-05-10T01:05:33Z
TOKYO – Tokyo stocks opened 0.48 percent lower on Thursday following falls on Wall Street, weighed by the persistent strong yen against other measure currencies, dealers said. The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange opened down 43.35 points at ...
2012-05-17T03:34:43Z
The Tokyo Skytree, twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, is set to open next week. The 634-meter (2,080 feet) structure in eastern Tokyo sits in a retail complex housing more than 300 shops and restaurants, a planetarium and an aquarium.
2012-04-27T15:39:57Z
The Graduate School of Management at Globis University in Tokyo will work with the Daimler-Nippon Foundation Innovative Leader Fund to support reconstruction work in areas destroyed by the deadly earthquake in Japan in March 2011, the school ...
2012-05-17T10:08:26Z
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, which handles most of Japan's payments for oil imports from Iran, said on Thursday it had frozen transactions with Iranian banks after being ordered to do so by the New York District Court earlier ...
2012-05-14T18:04:26Z
TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power posted an annual loss of ... below the average estimate of a loss of ¥227.7 billion in a poll of three analysts. It said in a business turnaround plan that it planned to make itself profitable again in the year ...
2012-05-17T18:29:31Z
Hotel Seiyo Ginza, a luxury hotel in the Ginza district of Chuo Ward, Tokyo, will close its doors next year after about 26 years in business, Tokyo Theatres Co., the hotel operator's parent firm, has said. The major movie promotion company will close the ...