X-Nico

99 unusual facts about Tokyo


866th Technical Training Squadron

The squadron was engaged in transporting personnel and supplies in the Southwest Pacific, and moving necessary occupation support elements from Manila to Tokyo.

Alexander Besher

Alexander Besher's formative years were in Japan where he grew up and lived for twenty years, graduating from Canadian Academy High School in Kobe and Sophia University in Tokyo.

Alleycat Rock: Female Boss

Tough girl biker Ako (pop singer Akiko Wada) comes across Mei (Meiko Kaji) and her girl gang (the Alleycats/Stray Cats) as they are about to have a knife fight in Shinjuku, Tokyo with another gang of girls.

Anna Dementyeva

In her final event prior to the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo, Dementyeva competed in the 7th Dinamo International in Penza.

Assuranceforeningen Gard

The group employs more than 450 people in 13 offices in Arendal, Athens, Bergen, Bermuda, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Imabari, London, New York, Oslo, Rio and Tokyo.

Australian rules football in Asia

Australian rules football has been played as an organised sport in Asia since the late 1980s, with the foundation of teams in Japan based around universities in Tokyo.

Azabu, Tokyo

Its coverage roughly corresponds to that of the former Azabu Ward, presently consisting of nine official districts: Azabu-Jūban, Azabudai, Azabu-Nagasakachō, Azabu-Mamianachō, Nishi-Azabu, Higashi-Azabu, Minami-Azabu, Moto-Azabu and Roppongi.

Banknote counter

Modern banknote counting machines use a technology developed by Tokyo Calculating Machine Works of Shinagawa, Tokyo and introduced in 1962.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Best of the Best: Wild and Mild

It started on May 11, at Katsushika Symphony Hills Mozart Hall, and ended with three consecutive shows on July 7 at the Yokohama Arena, with twenty-two concerts in total, and attendance of eighty thousand people.

Beverly Hills Film Festival

In March, it set off to host the first of many international stops for Beverly Hills Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan.

Boso Triple Junction

Tokyo is some 300 km from the Boso triple junction, and is subject to quakes and tsunamis generated from slips along this junction.

Brendon Hackwill

As a basketball player he had represented Australia at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where they finished ninth out of the 16 competing nations.

Charles Christian Georgeson

From the beginning of 1886 to near the close of 1889, he was in the employ of the Japanese government, as Professor of Agriculture at the Tokyo Imperial University, in Tokyo, Japan, in the College of Agriculture and Dendrology.

Crayon Pop

Returning to Japanese promotions, Crayon Pop held a mini-concert on January 6, 2013 in Shibuya, Tokyo.

David Sproxton

In May 2006, Sproxton (along with Peter Lord) visited the "Aardman Exhibit" at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, where he met Hayao Miyazaki.

Defendu

Based on his training in boxing, wrestling, savate, early Judo at the Kodokan in Tokyo, and fights he was involved in during his police work, Fairbairn began to develop his own system of hand to hand combat, calling it "Defendu".

Dieudonné Costes

Between 10 October 1927 and 14 April 1928 Costes and Joseph Le Brix flew 57,410 km (35,652 miles) around the world, in Breguet 19GR named Nungesser-Coli, from Paris through Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Japan, India, and Greece, although they traveled across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco, California, to Tokyo, Japan, by ship.

Different Skies

The album established Jones as an artist in her own right, selling unusual amounts for an indy release and making her the darling of Tokyo radio.

Dokonjō Gaeru

While frog Pyonkichi is hopping in an empty lot in Nerima, Tokyo's Shakujii Park, middle schooler Hiroshi trips over a rock and squashes him.

Dollan Baths

Buchanan Campbell admitted that he had been influenced by the architecture of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and the designs by Kenzo Tange for the gymnasium there.

Don Stark

In addition, he appeared in iCarly's movie: iGo to Japan as Freight Dog, the pilot who flies the gang over to Tokyo, Japan.

Don't Suppose

Limahl came to know Moroder while performing his song "Only for Love" at a rock festival in Tokyo; Moroder suggested that Limahl sing the movie's title song.

Dover Street Market

Dover Street Market Tokyo opened in 2006 and is a smaller version of the London store.

DyDo Drinco Ice Arena

The DyDo Drinco Ice Arena (ダイドードリンコ アイスアリーナ) is an indoor sporting arena located in Nishitōkyō, Tokyo, Japan.

Economy of Guangdong

It is also the largest economy of a sub-national entity in terms of GDP CNY5.26 trillion (US$836.19 billion) in all of Asia, save for Tokyo and sixth or seventh largest sub-national entity in the world.

Edgar Ansel Mowrer

When the Chicago Daily News learned about the threats, Frank Knox, the owner of the newspaper, offered Mowrer a position in the paper’s bureau in Tokyo.

Emly Starr

In the World Popular Song Festival at Tokyo in 1980 with the entry "Mary Brown", she was finalist as Emly Starr Explosion.

Endre Szász

He had several exhibitions all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City), Auschwitz Museum (Poland), the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest), and also exhibited in Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Johannesburg, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Budapest, Amman (Jordan) and Tokyo.

Eurobond

London is one of the centers of the Eurobond market, but Eurobonds may be traded throughout the world - for example in Singapore or Tokyo.

Gary Gensler

He later became head of the company’s fixed income and currency trading operations in Tokyo by the mid-’90s, and eventually the company’s co-head of finance.

Generalitat of Catalonia

Most of these offices are located in major world cities like London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo and others.

Geogaddi

The album premiered in six cities around the world: London, New York, Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin.

Gerard Croiset

However, he claimed to have achieved one more notable success when he was invited to Tokyo, Japan in the 1970s to locate a missing child.

GetBackers

The duo operates a freelance repossession service out of one of the seedier areas of Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Grant McConachie

In 1949 McConachie obtained landing rights at the Tokyo and Hong Kong airports that opened the door to CPA's highly successful transpacific service to Australia, Asia and the South Pacific.

Guy J. Swope

After the war, he was a civilian chief of the National Government Division in Tokyo, Japan and later as an assistant to the American High Commissioner in Germany.

Henry Plée

Fukuda Rikutaro confided in him that he learnt karate in Tokyo with Gichin Funakoshi.

Inagi local election, 2007

Inagi, Tokyo held an election for the city assembly on April 15, 2007.

Jake Jones

On February 1, 1945, he shot down another three Zeroes while serving on a mission at northeast of Tokyo, to give him five confirmed victories.

Jan Hollants Van Loocke

He started his diplomatic career as a colonial civil servant in Belgian Congo and subsequently worked in Tokyo, Mexico, Paris (France), New Delhi (India) and Peking (China).

John L. McMillan

Born on a farm near Mullins, he was educated at Mullins High School, the University of North Carolina, as well as the University of South Carolina Law School and National Law School in Washington, D.C. He was selected to represent the United States Congress at the Interparliamentary Union in London in 1960, and in Tokyo in 1961.

Joseph De Roo

Joseph R. De Roo (born 12 July 1932, Aarsele - 18 October 2001, Tokyo) was a friar at the Institute of Japanese Studies in Tokyo.

Joseph Sutton

Upon completion of the program, he was commissioned a Lieutenant and sent to Tokyo to serve as a Japanese language officer in General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters.

Julissa Gomez

In May 1988, several months before the Olympics, she traveled with her coach to Tokyo, Japan, to compete in the World Sports Fair.

KAIS International School

KAIS International School (formerly Kikokushijo Academy International School) is an international school located in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.

Kei Cozzolino

Kei Cozzolino (Ichigaya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, November 9, 1987) is Japanese-Italian racing driver who races under an Italian licence.

Kim Tschang Yeul

His works are shown at the Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Fondation Veranneman, Ghent, Belgium; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Bochum Museum Art Collection, Bochum, Germany; and elsewhere.

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Itaru Ishii, President and Director, Ishii Brothers's Company, Tokyo, Japan

Leo Melamed

In Tokyo in March of 1941, he asked his father, Isaac Melamdovich, a mathematics teacher, to explain how the community of Jewish residents in that city had enough money to support the sudden influx of some 3,000 refugees such as themselves.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

Stations of Line 2 provides female only waiting area during hours of operation, following the example of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Tehran and Mexico City, to protect female riders from sexual harassment.

Lucille Carra

The film compares the degraded condition of the Park Inn Hotel with many of Wright's important works, and travels to Japan to offer contrast Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, now partially restored at Meiji-Mura, Japan.

Lyal S. Sunga

Full Respect for the Rights of Suspect, Accused and Convict: from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the ICC, in Henzelin and Roth (eds), Le droit pénal à l’épreuve de l’internationalisation, (Bruylant) (2002) 217–239.

Mai Hatsune

In August, She participated the Final of 2002 World Mahjong Championship Women Players Japanese National Team Qualifying tournament in Kanda, Tokyo, but she lost.

Mairzy Doates

Trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Horatio Luro, in 1981, Mairzy Doates competed successfully at racetracks in Florida, California and New York before going to Tokyo, Japan in November where she beat an international field to win the inaugural Japan Cup in course-record time.

Malpensa Airport

Alitalia didn’t pull out of Milan entirely; it continued to fly several domestic and European services from here as well as three intercontinental flights (to New York, Tokyo and Sao Paulo).

Mickey Curtis

Apart from his entertainment career he has also been a racecar driver and owns a motorcycle shop in Meguro, Tokyo.

Microdrive

But in most developed Asian cities, such as Hong Kong and Tokyo, an 8GB version of the Seagate ST1 are selling at the price (as of second quarter 2006) as low as US$220 in retail shops, and under US$50 on eBay.

Miles! Miles! Miles!

It contains recordings from the October 4, 1981 concert in Tokyo, some of which had appeared on We Want Miles, including the original version of the track "Jean-Pierre", elsewhere edited by producer Teo Macero to remove the first twenty-five seconds of introduction, consisting primarily of a guitar riff and tumbling percussion sounds.

N.Y. Scum

It was later released on CD along with a performance in Tokyo performance as Thee City Ov Tokyo/Thee City Ov New York.

Nexon Co. Ltd.

Founded in Seoul in 1994, Nexon's headquarters is currently located in Tokyo, Japan.

Nicholas Platt

Platt was assigned as chief of the political section, U.S. Liaison Office, Peking, China, 1973–1974, and then as deputy chief of the political section at the Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, 1974–1977.

Norman Tindale

Born in Perth, Western Australia, his family moved to Tokyo and lived there from 1907 to 1915, where his father worked as an accountant at the Salvation Army mission in Japan, and Norman attended the American School in Japan.

North Pacific Coast Guard Agencies Forum

The first Forum was held in Tokyo in 2000 and has followed an alternating semi-annual cycle of technical experts and principals meetings since.

Okamoto's

Okamoto's is a psychedelic garage rock band made up of four 19-year-olds from Shinjuku, Tokyo, who first got together while still in middle school.

Park Kyung-won

In January 1925, Park returned to Japan, where she finally enrolled in an aviation school in Kamata (present-day Ōta, Tokyo.

Pitavastatin

Pitavastatin (previously known as itavastatin, itabavastin, nisvastatin, NK-104 or NKS-104) was discovered in Japan by Nissan Chemical Industries and developed further by Kowa Pharmaceuticals, Tokyo.

Pueblo Magnet High School

In his welcoming speech to students, which included greetings to two students from Tokyo, Student Body President Rafael Arvizu likely explained the reason for the aggravating “bumps” in the parking lot.

Rash Behari Bose

Bose convened a conference in Tokyo on 28–30 March 1942, which decided to establish the Indian Independence League.

Reiko Ohara

Born and raised in Tokyo, she became a famous actress who appeared in dramas after graduating from high school.

Reuben Jones

Reuben (Ben) Jones (born 19 October 1932 in Newport, Shropshire, England; died 3 January 1990 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) was an Olympic equestrian rider who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Saad Mohseni

Mohseni was born on 23 April 1966 in London, United Kingdom, where his father, Yassin Mohseni, was serving as an Afghan diplomat who throughout a 25 year career served in Kabul, Washington DC, London, Islamabad and Tokyo.

Sagami Trough

Earthquakes associated with the Sagami Trough are a threat to Tokyo and the Kanto Region because of the proximity to a population center (with over 36 million living in Tokyo's metro area, with a total of 43 million living in the Kanto Region) and the magnitude the Sagami Trough can create.

Sagiyama virus

Sagiyama virus is an arthropod borne virus recovered from mosquitoes collected during July and August 1956 and 1957 near Tokyo, Japan.

Saintsations

The Saintsations are no secret to the international stage as their first border-crossing performance was in 1990 at London when the Saints played the Oakland Raiders in a pre-season contest where they did countless appearances during the week leading into the game and on game day, they would repeat this in 1993 when the Saints played in Tokyo for a pre-season game vs the Philadelphia Eagles.

Samurai bond

A samurai bond is a yen-denominated bond issued in Tokyo by non-Japanese companies, and is subject to Japanese regulations.

Sapporo Ichiban

Sanyo Foods had previously kept their headquarters and R&D all in their original town of Maebashi city, Gunma prefecture, but their headquarters have legally moved to Minato-ku, Tokyo.

Scott Mutter

His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco International Airport and at the opening of the Beam Performing Arts Center in Tokyo.

Susan Gordon

She was a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, where she had settled after returning to her Jewish roots and marrying Avi Aviner, who had been a communal leader to the Jews of Tokyo.

Takakusu Junjiro

The institution evolved on the principle of "Buddhist-based human education," moving in 1929 to its present location in Nishitōkyō, Tokyo and becoming Musashino Women's University.

Takuro Nishimura

Nishimura attended Kokushikan University in Setagaya, Tokyo from 1997 to 2000, winning the All-Japan Prime Minister Cup.

Telê Santana

In those same two seasons, São Paulo also claimed the world club title in Tokyo, beating first Johan Cruyff's FC Barcelona and then Fabio Capello's A.C. Milan.

Temple University, Japan Campus

TUJ has classrooms and student facilities in two buildings in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

Terminal 21

It is decorated based on well-known streets in cities such as Rome, Paris, Tokyo, London, Istanbul.

The BOC Group

With the plan of expanding into the Far East, it set up British Oxygen (Far East) Ltd, based in Tokyo.

The Codetalkers

In May 2008, the band played two shows in Tokyo and were invited back for a full-blown tour in early 2009 following the release of their next album.

Third Time's a Charm

The album later caught the attention of InYa Face Records in Tokyo, Japan, who released it as Better Luck Next Time in 2006.

Titus Software

The Japanese subsidiary, Titus Japan K.K., had its head office on the eighth floor of the Kotubuki Dogenzaka Building in Dōgenzaka (JA), Shibuya, Tokyo.

Tokio, North Dakota

However, some believe it is named after the city of Tokyo in Japan.

Tokyo City Cup

Run as the San Bernardino Handicap prior to 2005, the races name honors the partnership between Santa Anita Park and Ohi Racecourse in Tokyo, Japan.

Tomio Aoki

I Was Born, But... (1932), Passing Fancy (1933) and An Inn in Tokyo (1935) were three other Ozu films in which Aoki had notable roles.

Toyota Publica

Many of the commercial iterations of the Publica were built by Hino Motors at their Hamura plant, beginning in 1970.

Uniting Nations

Danny Choo used Uniting Nation's Ai no Corrida in his Tokyo Dance Trooper video shot in Shibuya, Tokyo

Vladimir Bougrine

From 1969, Vladimir Bougrine participated in over 40 exhibitions, 12 personal ones, in Leningrad, Vienna, Salzburg, Paris, Tokyo, Milan, Bologna, Bari, Bochum, Hamburg, Aubonne, Switzerland, and in the following museums: Russian Museum, Leningrad; Cathedral and diocesan museum, Vienna; Musée du Luxembourg, Paris; Museum of Tokyo, Japan; Museum of the city Bochum, BRD.

Waddy Young

He was killed on January 9, 1945, in a plane crash during the first B-29 raid over Tokyo as he attempted to assist a comrade whose plane had one engine on fire.

Watson Island

The Ichimura Miami - Japanese Garden grew out of the efforts of Kiyoshi Ichimura, who sent objects, materials and artisans from Tokyo to Miami in the 1950s to construct the San-Ai-An Japanese Garden on Watson Island.

Wayne, New York

He later returned as a Baptist missionary and was inspired to invent the rickshaw in order to transport his invalid wife around the streets of Tokyo.

Yuichiro Hata

A native of Setagaya, Tokyo and graduate of Tamagawa University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1999.

Yumiko Fujita

Yumiko Fujita (藤田 弓子; born 12 September 1945 in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress.


Alexander Vovin

He has also been a visiting professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (2001–2002, 2008), a visiting professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2008–2009), and a visiting professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, Japan in May-August 2012.

Amuza

Amuza Motors Pty Ltd of Perth is an Australian automotive company which exhibited its Ford Falcon-based stretch limo at the 2003 Tokyo Auto Salon.

Anne Allison

She wrote the book Nightwork on hostess clubs and Japanese corporate culture after having worked at a hostess club in Tokyo.

Arlene Sierra

Performers of her work have included New York City Opera VOX, the American Composers Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the New Music Players, Psappha, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Chroma, the Schubert Ensemble, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

Banking in Vietnam

In 1987 the bank also agreed to establish a finance company in Tokyo in partnership with a Japanese bank.

Cell phone novel

His first cell phone novel was called Deep Love, the story of a teenager engaged in "subsidized dating" (enjō kosai) in Tokyo and contracting AIDS.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Elizabeth J. Perry

Born shortly before the communist revolution in mainland China to Episcopal missionary parents who were professors at St. John's University in Shanghai, Elizabeth Perry was raised in Tokyo, Japan on the campus of Rikkyo University (where her parents also taught).

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

Gustave Boissonade

The "Boissonade Tower", the Ichigaya campus of Hosei University halfway between Ichigaya and Iidabashi stations in central Tokyo, a 26-story building completed in 2000, was named after him.

Gyosei Junior and Senior High School

American and French missionaries belonging to the Order of Saint Mary founded Gyosei High School in Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1881.

Hanzawa Naoki

Kin'ya Kitaōji as Ken Nakanowatari, the chairman of Tokyo Central Bank.

Hill Top, Cumbria

In 2007 a replica of Hill Top was built in a children's zoo near the grounds of Daito Bunka University in Tokyo, Japan.

Ichiyo Izawa

After a period of hesitation, he was eventually convinced by the encouragement of both Shiina and bassist Seiji Kameda, who is said to have told him "Hurry up and join so we can play together", and Izawa debuted later the same year as a member of Tokyo Jihen's Phase 2 lineup alongside new guitarist Ryousuke Nagaoka, nicknamed Ukigumo.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

JNR dismissal lawsuit

On December 5, 2006, at the Tokyo District Court, more than 500 Kokuro members, the union itself, and relatives of workers who died since the privatization planned to launch a 30 million yen damages lawsuit over the refusal to rehire the workers, making a total of 540 plaintiffs suing the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.

John Hays Hammond

In May 1926, an organization called "The Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond" sponsored eleven dinners around the world (Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manila, etc.) in honor of Hammond.

Jun Tsuji

In this passage Tsuji describes the birth of an Epicurean out of someone who experienced the transience of such eternal-seeming icons as the Ryōunkaku and greater Tokyo.

Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg

Singers who have started in Rheinsberg can be heard at the New York Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Salzburg Festival, other various international opera houses such as Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Tokyo Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Sydney Opera House, Zürich Opera House and most German opera houses.

Kick the Can Crew

Kick the Can Crew is a mainstream hip hop group from Tokyo, Japan, consisting of members Kreva, MCU, and Little.

Kyi-Leo

American singer Mariah Carey owns two Kyi-Leo dogs that were given to her as puppies in Tokyo, Japan, during her Butterfly World Tour.

M. C. Bradbrook

She held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Santa Cruz, Tokyo, and Rhodes, South Africa, and received honorary degrees from many more.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Marcel Roche

Dr. Roche was an advisor to the WHO, UNESCO, a Governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1958-1960), and was a Member and President of the Council of the University of the United Nations in Tokyo, and Secretary of the Third World Academy of Sciences.

Masahiko Aoki

Since 2011 he has been the senior Visiting Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo.

Mika Yamaji

Upon graduation, Mika wrote, directed and two short films in Tokyo with sponsorship from Nikkatsu Studios.

Misawa Airport

Initially served by Toa Airways with McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft to Tokyo (Haneda), Sapporo (Chitose), and Osaka Itami, operations were upgraded to Airbus A300 aircraft after Toa Airways became Japan Air System in 1988.

Nichiyō Tōron

The debate is usually held in NHK's Chiyoda Hōsō Kaikan studio in Kioichō in central Tokyo, close to Nagatachō, where the Diet building, the national Liberal Democratic and Democratic party headquarters as well as the prime minister's office (Kantei) and residence (Kōtei) are located.

Pierre Hermé

In 1998, he started his own brand name Pierre Hermé Paris with a pastry boutique in Tokyo's New Otani Hotel, followed in July 2000 by a Salon de Thé in the Tokyo Disney shopping area Ikspiari.

Prada gender discrimination case

Tokyo Press Conference - On April 19, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) organized a press conference inviting international press for the first time after the women's rights civil lawsuit was filed against Prada at Tokyo District Court.

Rica Takashima

After graduating with a Design Degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Takashima worked as a stage set artist and a freelance illustrator before she founded and launched the avant-garde street art show troupe and studio Aozora Art on Tokyo’s Harajuku Pedestrian Street.

RPM Challenge

In 2007, several well-known websites and media outlets picked up the story, and participation increased to over 2400 acts from such varied locations as Tokyo, Auckland, Montreal, Antarctica and Oslo.

Sakuma drops

They are flavored with real fruit juice and are made by Sakuma Candy Co. based in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

Shan Serafin

His 2011 film, Forest of the Living Dead, formerly entitled The Forest, is a ghost story set in the high fashion world of modern Japan, filmed on location in Tokyo, Cancun and Los Angeles, through his production company 611 Films, starring Aidan Bristow and Johnny Young and features Michael Madsen.

Sharon Au

She left for Japan to further her studies in 2005 in the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University in Tokyo on a MediaCorp scholarship.

Shijō-mae Station

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government originally planned to complete this move by 2012, but Democratic Party of Japan legislators cut the budget for the move in 2010; the budget was reinstated in 2012 and the move is currently expected to be complete by 2018.

Subaru Shibutani

At Tokyo, he received many singing jobs and the 3baka became a fixture in the Tokyo Jr TV programs; They went on to star in their own TV series, IkeIkeIkemen, and were regulars on Koichi Domoto's show Pikaichi.

Telecom Center Station

It is named after the adjacent Telecom Center building, which was previously the headquarters for Tokyo Metropolitan Television (Tokyo MX).

The Broken Commandment

With his pregnant wife and three daughters Toson left Komoro and moved to Minami Toshima-gun in Tokyo to complete his work.

Tokyo Metropolitan Television

Every week, Tokyo MX airs the press conferences of Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara.

Welcome to Secret Time

Limited Edition A contains the Standard Edition CD and the DVD contains the Zepp Tokyo performance of the girls’ first Japan tour, Secret 1st Japan Tour (16 tracks).

Yahel Chirinian

Monsoon Heritage creations are present in Paris, Rome, Milan, Monte Carlo, Saint Bart, Porto Cervo, Capri, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Oman, Qatar, Dabi, New Delhi, Bombay and Goa.

Yi Un

He was enrolled at Gakushūin and the Imperial Army Academy, both in Tokyo.

Yokohama Chinatown

Yokohama Chinatown (Japanese: 横浜中華街, yokohama chūkagai; Simplified Chinese: 横滨中华街; Traditional Chinese: 横濱中華街; Pinyin: Hèngbīn Zhōnghuá Jiē; Cantonese Jyutping: Waang4 ban1 zung1 waa4 gaai1) is located in Yokohama, Japan, which is located just south of Tokyo.