Tag Archives: HighEnd

Weak Yen Helps Push High-End Real Estate Sales

Weak Yen Helps Push High-End Real Estate Sales
“We've especially seen a rise in investors from Singapore,” Takumi Mochizuki, a Tokyu Land spokesman, told JRT last week. High-end properties in districts such as Roppongi – where many foreign financial corporations are headquartered – are especially …
Read more on Wall Street Journal (blog)

The great Texan takeaway
RITZ-CARLTON Tokyo towers 53 storeys above Roppongi, a lively 24-hour entertainment district featuring sushi bars, tempura houses and Michelin-starred restaurants. But the cuisine at this chic hotel, which occupies the top nine floors of Midtown Tower …
Read more on The Australian

Tokyo Has Never Sounded This Incredible
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its opening, the Roppongi Hills complex (part high-rise residences, part shopping district, part entertainment venue) created this wicked cool short, Tokyo City Symphony. By projecting 3D animation onto a 1:1000 …
Read more on Gizmodo Australia

New thugs on block sidestep the usual suspects
Jun boryokudan were involved in last September's fatal beating of a bar owner by bat-wielding thugs at a club in Tokyo's Roppongi district. In March, the National Police Agency announced plans to crack down on jun boryokudan. Who are the jun boryokudan …
Read more on The Japan Times

Endangered Whales Turned Into Ingredients for High-End Japanese Dog Treats

Endangered Whales Turned Into Ingredients for High-End Japanese Dog Treats
Japan, we need to have a talk about your luxury dog snack market, because “endangered fin whale” is not an acceptable ingredient for dog treats. That's what one Japanese specialty pet food company has been selling, though, and they're now taking flack …
Read more on Geekosystem

JAPAN / UK : Crisp firm Tyrrells secures 7 – 11 listing
Tyrrells, the UK crisp manufacturer, has secured another overseas listing with a deal to sell products at 7-11 stores in Japan. The company said it had agreed a deal to supply 5,000 stores in the country. "Japan is a strong snack market and this is one …
Read more on just-food.com (subscription)

EU mergers and takeovers (May 31)
Private equity firms Lion Capital and Avedon Capital Partners to acquire joint control of Dutch snack producer AD Van Geloven Holding (notified April 29/deadline June 7/simplified). JUNE 11. — Qatar Investment Authority and Qatar state-owned hotel …
Read more on Reuters

Paris to Panaji: The tuck box
Tuck — Noun: Brit. informal food, typically cakes and candy, eaten by children at school as a snack: (as modifier): a tuck shop. The dictionary says the origin is from old English … Until one day a box from Japan arrived, with strict instructions to …
Read more on The Hindu