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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 …
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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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Seven & I raises online sales bar

Seven & I raises online sales bar
The company expects to see sales of ¥150 billion in the current fiscal year from April 1, thanks to strong sales from online supermarket operations by its Ito-Yokado unit, “bento” boxed-meal delivery services by Seven-Eleven convenience stores and baby …
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Tray chic: How lunchbox sets are going gourmet
“In Japan we have so many bento shops, but I didn't see many in Hong Kong. So I thought working in Admiralty and many people [don't have access to] good lunch places – there's always a long queue and the prices are very high. It's so difficult to book …
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Sushi and More completes 2 years in Mumbai
Mumbai, Maharashtra, May 31, 2013 /India PRwire/ — Sushi and More – India's premier take-away Japanese food store celebrated its second anniversary this month. Sushi and More is the fresh food division of maidoindia, the company that promotes Japanese …
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