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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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