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Tokyo stocks finish down 0.78%
Apr 25th
Tokyo shares closed 0.78 per cent lower on Tuesday following losses on Wall Street stoked by political and economic uncertainty in Europe and softer Chinese manufacturing figures.
The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 74.13 points to close at 9,468.04. The broader Topix index of all first-section issues slipped 0.69 per cent, or 5.60 points, to 803.94.
Tokyo’s intentions for Senkaku islets
Apr 18th
Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s plan to have the metropolitan government purchase the Senkaku Islands continued to cause ripples Wednesday, with both China and Taiwan quickly issuing statements criticizing the move. More >
Tokyo stocks weaken after BoJ meeting
Apr 11th
Japan has agreed to funnel billions of pounds into British infrastructure, including wind power, in a fillip for government efforts to attract more foreign investment into big strategic projects.
The deal with the state-backed Japanese Bank for International Cooperation came during a visit to Tokyo by David Cameron, prime minister, on the first day of an Asian tour aimed at promoting trade and investment ties between the UK and east Asia.
Tokyo chefs angry over new blowfish laws
Apr 4th
With a scoop of a net Tokyo chef Naohito Hashimoto selects a poisonous blowfish, considered a delicacy in Japan, and with a few deft strokes of his gleaming knife starts the delicate process of preparing it for a customer.
In moments, Hashimoto has separated the edible parts of the fish from organs filled with a poison more deadly than cyanide. For more than six decades, dicing blowfish in Tokyo has been the preserve of a small band of strictly regulated and licensed chefs, usually in exclusive restaurants.
Tokyo stocks close down 0.71%
Mar 28th
Tokyo stocks fell 0.71 percent on Wednesday following a weak performance on Wall Street, despite a surge from electronics maker Sharp on a capital deal with Taiwan’s Hon Hai.
The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which rose 2.36 percent Tuesday to its highest point since Japan was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March last year, fell 72.58 points to 10,182.57.
Tepco Chairman’s Power Poses Test for Tokyo
Mar 21st
As Japan’s government attempts to reshape the power industry following last year’s nuclear accident, the influence of the chairman of the utility Tokyo is trying to restructure shows how hard that task will be.
Tsunehisa Katsumata, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., 9501.TO -1.38% is among the most powerful and well-connected businessmen in Japan. A former Tepco president, he essentially took control of the company last March, after dealing with the crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant proved too much for then-President Masataka Shimizu.
Japan finishes 634m Tokyo Sky Tree
Feb 29th
Construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the world’s tallest communications tower and second-highest building, finished yesterday, two months late because of the quake and tsunami that struck Japan last March.
Tourist bosses in the country hope the 634-metre tower will be a big draw for foreign visitors, whose numbers have plummeted in the aftermath of the disaster and the nuclear crisis it sparked.
Tokyo stocks see highest finish since August
Feb 22nd
Tokyo stocks rose almost one percent to close Wednesday at their highest level in six-and-a-half months as exporters were boosted by a sliding yen. The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 0.96 percent or 90.98 points to 9,554.00, its strongest finish since August 4, while the Topix index of all first-section issues was up 1.12 percent, or 9.11 points, at 825.40.
Exporters were the main beneficiaries of the yen’s slide. The dollar strengthened to 80.04 yen from 79.69 yen in New York late Tuesday, breaking through the psychological 80.00 yen level against the Japanese unit.
Tokyo stocks open down 0.30 per cent
Feb 15th
Tokyo shares opened 0.30 per cent lower on Thursday after New York stocks sank amid worries over a Greek debt deal. The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which closed at its highest point since August 5 on Wednesday thanks to a weaker yen, opened down 27.96 points at 9,232.38.
“The market may take a break after reaching the psychologically important 9,250 mark (on Wednesday),” said Daiwa Securities senior market analyst Yumi Nishimura.
Life-size papier mâché rhino captured by Tokyo zoo
Feb 8th
A Tokyo zoo ran an emergency drill for staff on how to respond if large animals should escape. The video above shows two staff members of the Ueno Zoological Gardens clad in a papier mâché rhinoceros costume.
Staff and police surround the “rhino” with a net and pretend to tranquilize and capture it.
Zoo officials are concerned about the real possibility of animals escaping from enclosures in a country like Japan that is prone to earthquakes. These annual drills prepare the staff for such an event but without any real danger.
