Tokyo

At a national sumo wrestling competition in Tokyo on Sunday, officials sprayed disinfectant on the hands of every spectator as they arrived.

"There was a sense of a ceiling and that likely put a cap on prices, " said Yuichi Ikemizu, Tokyo branch manager for Standard Bank.

In Tokyo Mr Obama and Mr Hatoyama promised to "move expeditiously" to settle the matter.

Toyota had not yet received any information on an embargo and was unable to comment, said Masami Doi, a spokesman for Toyota in Tokyo.

However, since the wards continued to be viewed as internal organizations of Tokyo Metropolis, various issues arose.

More directly pertinent to the gold price is the rising premium in Tokyo for gold bars now up to $2, whereas there is usually no premium.

Mr Zoellick said he was trying to persuade Tokyo not to cut further.

"How much could the government buy [if it set up such a fund]? " asked Shinichi Ichikawa, chief Japan strategist at Credit Suisse in Tokyo.

A passer-by looks at a woman sleeping in an upright bed secured to the wall of a high-rise building in the Japanese capital, Tokyo.

But can you imagine me living in Tokyo, Japan on only $10, 000 trying to buy, let alone rent a place for that amount for a year? Impossible!

A few years ago, the then Japanese vice-finance minister in charge of all things yen was out with his aide at a Tokyo restaurant.

The move followed a warning from the French embassy on Monday to its nationals to leave Tokyo, citing concerns about further earthquakes.

Tokyo to the company's supply of beef in a meat wholesaler explained: "Sales have not used for raw beef. "

Lehman is based in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo, and operates in a network of offices around the world.

Though he had been born in Tokyo where his father was a temporary political refugee, he grew up in Peking.

But Mr Edano said the radiation levels outside the plant , operated by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), did not pose a major health threat .

AIG's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the stock exchanges in London, Paris, Switzerland and Tokyo.

Their anger tends to be ignored by Tokyo, which seems to want to discuss the "comfort women" issue only with Washington.

even for turning Tokyo into a global financial centre, still the dream of a few visionary politicians.

An inventor in Tokyo recently came out with a miniature telephone.

" Day back to Tokyo, a Japanese bowl touch the reporter Lu made the action and said " the nuclear radiation to pass you.

What would I have done without that advertisement? It seemed to stare back at me in almost every Tokyo subway car I squeezed into.

On Sunday Chinese diplomat State Councillor Dai Bingguo warned Tokyo to make a "wise political decision" over the matter.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said the Tokyo Odaiba Tokyo telecentres emitting thick black smoke near the building.

Those steps appeared to be bringing down the dangerous pressures that had built up in the container, a Tokyo Electric spokesman said.

From the perspective of tourism as an industry, continued efforts are being made to let the world know of the fascinations of Tokyo.

Every time Tokyo makes a hesitant attempt to begin acting like the great power it should be, China beats the drums about the war.

Rolling blackouts already in place in and around Tokyo may just be a taste of the ripple effects still to come.

Tokyo, by contrast, regards China's growing assertiveness as a challenge to the legal and administrative norms that have held since the war.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, said the robot will choose a variety of data collected on to the public.

"I was a young child and suffered a lot, " she said of her experience in Tokyo during the fire-bombing of 1945.

Reported that after testing the air in Tokyo, did not detect the radioactive nuclear reactor usually have cesium and radioactive iodine.

Their clients are to be found in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Washington and a few other rich urban agglomerations outside Africa.

Among them, there was a CEO of a grand German firm, who always had to go back and forth between Tokyo and Osaka, for business reasons.

Tokyo and Washington agreed in 2006 to move it out to a coastal region, away from the population, many of whom resent its presence.

I'm leaving for Tokyo. tonight and I'll be back in a few days. Can I leave three pieces of luggage here?

Q: During the recent Tokyo Film Festival, the two sides across the Taiwan Straits disputed over the name under which Taiwan participates.

"Without the lay-over in Tokyo Narita Airport, the travel time would be shortened considerably and worth the higher fare, " so he said.

The Tokyo Women's Medical University study shows blood pressure readings are higher than at any other time of the week.

Yet Japanese investors have had to endure two decades of frustration (and counting) since the end of Tokyo's bull market.

He said he expected to welcome Cao Gangchuan, his Chinese counterpart, to Tokyo this year.

Later, when I visited the Disneyland in Tokyo, I was no longer impressed -- it's just a copy of the American one.

And he seems to have soothed fears in Tokyo, for the time being at least, that he had grown too enamoured of China at Japan's expense.

At Tokyo Station, one of Japan's busiest subway terminals, shaken commuters grabbed one another to stay steady as the ground shook.

Forty years later, the event on the train was far from my thoughts as we visited the home of a Christian lady in the northern part of Tokyo.

His eldest son was caught trying to enter Japan in 2001 on his way to Tokyo Disneyland; he subsequently lived and gambled in Macau.

In Tokyo, our correspondent says that despite an air of superficial calm there are signs of unease under the surface.

Some island nations have total populations roughly equivalent in size to that of a single city block in Tokyo.

Taking the train in and around Tokyo can be a bit intimidating at first but it's really not that difficult.

Meanwhile, some Japanese and Chinese media have portrayed the diplomatic debacle as the result of a misunderstanding by Tokyo officials.

"Everybody was rather staggered to see such a strong number, " said Richard Jerram, chief economist at Macquarie Securities in Tokyo.

This book stresses there is a primary school_and_a girl in the story The story took place in Tokyo before the end of World War II.

As you might imagine for a city this size, Tokyo holds a worthy amount of world records, some of them more unusual than others.

In Osaka, everything is in the open, like Tokyo with its guts spilt out on the pavement.

Density is why the average resident of Tokyo uses as much energy in a week as the average resident of Houston in a day.

Less than 24 hours before his death the company worker from Tokyo had spoken of his joy at the prospect of getting married.

Tokyo has considered trying to take action against China at the WTO over the apparent disruption of exports.

At least twice during his 12 years in London he was asked by Tokyo headquarters to make swingeing cost cuts.

He said the Hamaoka plant, 125 miles west of Tokyo, was "a special case" because it sat atop a major fault line.

He said the government would study with the Tokyo Electric Power Company a permanent closure of the measures of radioactive substances.

The temple where we meet in Tokyo was his temple before he took the position in Kamakura and he likes to visit it at frequent intervals.

But miraculously his wife Kimiko managed to get through to him to report that she was stranded at the Imperial Hotel in downtown Tokyo.

Seoul and Tokyo argue the proposal would reward Pyongyang's aggression with a place in international negotiations.

The international trend towards recycled materials was also a strong theme in Tokyo, where storage and space is at a premium.

'We never give stars to a restaurant just to sell a book, ' he said in an interview this week in Tokyo.

TOKYO There was a time when Chinese leaders described their country as a poor, developing country. It was no false modesty.

"If you want to do something abroad, why not the Charity Shield in New York, the Carling Cup final in Tokyo or Seoul or wherever, " he said.

Tokyo economists reluctantly concede that the yen must be revalued upward; there is likely to be a 5% revaluation within a year.

Now, at a time of turmoil in Washington's ties with Tokyo, American officials are reaching out directly to that power behind the throne.

Tokyo did not suffer as much damage as some other parts of Japan, but it was one that we have never experienced before.

One of its members, Takatoshi Ito, of Tokyo University, says the ideas spilling out of the council point to a new stage of change for Japan.

Still, Tokyo is comfortable with its evacuation policy even after studying various possibilities of deterioration at the plant, he said.

Mrs Lee was tired and thirsty after her day's shopping in Tokyo, so she went into a tea house for a rest.

Certainly, in light of the record, no one could be faulted for entrusting him with the crucial assignment to Tokyo back in 1975.

His father and grandfather were craftsmen and he took a master's degree in design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.

At the news conference, Tokyo Electric Power's chairman Katsumata said the company had no estimate of when residents might return.

TOKYO - Japanese women are cheerier than men, people grow glummer as they age, and money can buy happiness -- up to a point.

Riding the Tokyo subway Monday on her way to the Imperial Palace, she said it was her third time to Japan.

Officials at Tokyo Electric, known as Tepco, said the jump was likely due to a shift in the direction of the wind.

"Those people hanging around Ginza, they are just showing off, " he said, relaxing in his sleek Tokyo office in jeans and a white shirt.

However, the Tokyo Electric Power Company did not say, bottom of why such a high concentration of radioactive substances.

From just a small company, it grew to open new offices in London, Munich, San Francisco, Tokyo and other countries.

In Tokyo, one of the world's most densely populated cities, the concept of having roommates or sharing quarters has never been popular.

'The company is still investigating' if any of its products were stolen off the streets, said Kirin's Tokyo-based spokesman, Shinya Izumi.

Cooling problems also appeared to have affected to another of the Tokyo Electric Power Company's nuclear facilities.

But then one of her parents became ill and she had to move back to the parental home outside Tokyo.

The Sun, a London-based tabloid, titled an article: 'Nightmare warning to Brits as Nuke Crisis Continues: Get Out of Tokyo Now'.

He's getting ready to leave for Tokyo.

Calico is one of at least three cafes that have opened up in Tokyo this year where visitors can mingle with cats as they enjoy a cup of tea.

Once you get off the plane in Tokyo and past customs and immigration, the wreckage is everywhere to be seen -- on television, at least.

A girl with Japanese kanji characters written on her face hangs out in Tokyo's Harajuku district.

The population of Tokyo is one tenth of that of Japan .

Through your company bank in London . The bank can issue a banker's check drawn on their correspondent here in Tokyo .

Meanwhile, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said the U. S. will continue to urge Tokyo to stick with the new basing plan.

How much does the single ticket to Tokyo cost?

He wanted a city to "rival London, New York, Tokyo or Shanghai" . He did not rule out the construction of more skyscrapers.

There was a perceptible gap in response among the foreign community in Tokyo and the Japanese, with a higher sense of calm among the latter.

In Tokyo, on top of the long days, people seem to do things after they get home as well, like playing computer games.

The equipment used in Tokyo Electric Power Co. 's Fukushima plants now under stress is at least a generation older.

Before I took the train back to Tokyo, I stopped at a ramen shop, an open-air stand with a few tiny tables set on raised tatami mats.

Tokyo, after all, shows that big pools of capital do not always create true global financial leaders.

You captured so much of the magic of living in Tokyo and how much the city can come to mean to you.

If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it London, New York, Tokyo or Atlanta? You've got three seconds, go.

Tokyo Electric Power said the new blaze erupted because the initial fire had not been fully extinguished.

But their financial centers, Tokyo and Frankfurt, never grew deep enough to rival New York and the dollar market in London.

The United States and Japan are vowing to keep their alliance strong at a time of change in both Washington and Tokyo.

For many, there was a bit of unmistakeable relief at how lucky it was Tokyo had not suffered worse damage.

For some, the discussions with China will be just a time-killing exercise while waiting for a deal with Tokyo.

For many, there was a bit of unmistakable relief at how lucky it was Tokyo had not suffered worse damage.

"In Tokyo, it's not that easy to have cats, " he said, explaining that tight housing regulations often forbid pets.

"They're trying to overcome their software inferiority with Unix, " said an analyst in Tokyo with International Data Corp.

Ueno veterinarian and a panda keeper are escorting the pair to Tokyo on an aircraft decorated with a black-and-white panda design.

Vice-chairman Agata stands with his friend Xiao Mu Lee, owner of a successful restaurant in the heart of Tokyo's red-light district.

Rikuzentakata, on Japan's northeast coast about 250 miles from Tokyo, was one of the communities hardest hit by the March 11 disaster.

Tokyo - Japanese men who want to rest their weary heads this Christmas season are finding comfort in the lap of a woman - made of foam.

Mr. White has either flown to New York, or he might have left for Tokyo.

Life is so unfair to him, but he was a teacher at his mother's help, to become graduates of the University of Tokyo, Japan.

At least four of the Daiichi reactors, which provide power to Tokyo, are too badly damaged to be repaired.

As the sun sets over Tokyo, another case is about to reach its climax on a bridge across a spaghetti of railway lines.

On Thursday, Gaga gave a press conference in Tokyo to promote the concert and she broke down as she spoke about her love for the country.

In a departure from tradition, every one of the 150 restaurants listed in the Tokyo guide has been awarded at least one star.

Mr. Woodford said he received notification Thursday night of an emergency board meeting 9 a. m. Friday at the Olympus headquarters in Tokyo.

Here's our recent chat with him at his Tokyo studio, followed by a new, exclusive comic that he did just for Vice.

Yasushige Sano, 35, an office worker in Tokyo, said he is staying put in the area with his wife and toddler.

World Wide Web news reports Japanese Foreign Minister Wang Huan Maehara Tokyo from 6 am to leave for the United States visit.

As the Daiichi plant has continued to infect the region's air and water, Tokyo citizens have gone through cycles of alarm and ennui.

Residents of the hardest-hit areas likely only had 15 minutes of warning, though Tokyo would have had at least 40 minutes of warning.

Tokyo, you know, is a place that if you are gonna be a global luxury hotel company, you have to be here. . .

Sharp gains in other Asian markets also gave a boost to the Tokyo bourse, where investors continued to pick up recently battered shares.

Although Tokyo has been publicly trying to tamp down the dispute, it's clear that patience is wearing thin.

Chinese analysts agreed that Japan had appeared to fold, but said Tokyo had no choice if wanted to avoid a continued escalation with China.

The sort of sway Beijing exerts contrasts markedly with Tokyo's rather forlorn attempts at regional leadership.

At Tokyo Station, the city's main departure point for long-distance bullet trains, was no more crowded than usual on Thursday afternoon.

That's right. I'll spend a week in Tokyo, attending a business conference, and then fly to New York where I intend to meet my colleague.

Besides their protective gear, Tokyo Electric is limiting the amount of radiation to which the workers can be exposed.

Being Shanghai its first location, the store is expected to pop-up in Rotterdam, Barcelona, Tokyo & New York in the coming future.

Defense Ministry spokesman in Tokyo said the issue was being investigated but declined to comment further.

A lot of people say that Tokyo nightlife can be regarded among the craziest districts all over the globe.

Honda representatives in Tokyo said they were unaware of any disruption at Chinese Honda production sites arising from the Omron strike.

Though born and brought up in Tokyo, Tanizaki eventually found his literary hometown in Kansai, a city with profound classical atmosphere.

Though born and brought up in Tokyo, Tanizaki eventually found his literary hometown in Kansai, a city with profound classical atmosphere.

Carter was speaking at a business lunch in Tokyo, where he decided to open his speech with a brief joke.

We'll round off these 40 Tokyo facts with a few that you might as well start forgetting immediately.

The bank went on to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and acquire Nikko Cordial, Japan's third largest broker.

A court in Tokyo has ruled that Samsung Electronics did not infringe on patents held by Apple, a victory for the South Korean company.

Tokyo certainly does not feel like the capital of a country in the grip of terminal depression.

Ueno-koen Park is a good place to see cherry blossoms and one of Tokyo's most crowded parks on Sundays.

Fifteen years ago, the owner of Taishoken, a legendary noodle shop in Tokyo, closed his doors following the death of his wife.

Abe says Tokyo does not believe a launch is imminent. He made no further comments on the issue.

I loved the description of his trip from Ireland to Tokyo and back to Ireland as well as his trip down and up through Africa.

Naoto Kan, Japan's prime minister, warned on Thursday that Tokyo stood ready to intervene again.

Leader : I have been recently interested in charity event and I happened to hear about Tokyo Dome charity event.

Tokyo traders said the election outcome initially sparked unwinding in long yen positions, which rose sharply last week.

Seasoned traders in Tokyo barely batted an eyelash as the news began to emerge soon after trading began Wednesday.

The KMT Government also made a postwar survey of the war damage and of the war crime trials at Tokyo and Nanking.

Tokyo ran up lots of tall buildings, which were thought to be safer than low ones because, though they sway alarmingly, they do not snap.

From gratuitous puke porn (and worse) to the barely titillating maid cafes, Tokyo is like a dirty old man in a teenager's body.

Around Tokyo, many young people speculate that the reason might be as simple as the ticking of the biological clock.

The initiative that should be given top priority would be building up the network of ring roads encompassing the entire Greater Tokyo Area.

Ms. Tahara says the company is profitable. Theirs is the only agency in Tokyo that caters exclusively to working women in their 30s.

Although the Bank of Japan stayed out of the rate cutting, the mood was gloomy as Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index closed down 9. 4%.

The pace could be very slow and very far away from normalisation, " said Seiji Adachi, senior economist at Deutsche Securities in Tokyo. "

He said that Tokyo Electric Power Co. , or Tepco, has so far prepared 50 billion yen ($600 million) in cash for preliminary compensation.

The Beijing government is the northern song dynasty the name one of four Beijing and Tokyo kaifeng's capital was once the historic city.

A modern nomad is as likely to be a teenager in Oslo, Tokyo or suburban America as a jet-setting chief executive.

There is so much to see and do in Tokyo. You can never be bored!

If you are ever in Tokyo, definitely do not miss out on the Thunder Dolphin coaster!

Naturally, the Tokyo markets plunged, though even there things might have been worse.

Yet the Japanese, led by an inspired general, dug themselves in on Iwo Jima, a bleak, volcanic island far from Tokyo.

The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, designed in 1915, was one of Wright's grandest, most elegant projects.

He's in Tokyo, Japan, oh I don't know whether you call it a fact-finding mission.

Satomi Sugimoto, from Seisen University in Tokyo, said: "We were able to interact with people from all over Asia. It was very significant. "

They were involved whether it was the Singapore exchange, the Tokyo stock exchange, the London stock exchange, the New York.

But they were less popular in fashion-conscious Milan, where only 4% of men used them, and belt pouches were non-existent in Tokyo.

TOKYO -- A line of orderly people wait patiently by a bank of elevators for the next one to open.

Now, says Kerri Brown of Chatham House in London, the territorial dispute with China is giving Washington a new opportunity to woo Tokyo.

Earlier this year, two officers approached me as I was exiting Tokyo Station and asked to see an ID and the contents of my purse.

The company has placed him with a branch office in Tokyo.

One is its time zone: London's trading day starts as the Tokyo market closes and a few hours before New York opens.

These patterns underpinned the rise of Tokyo as a financial capital with its financial services industry linked to international investment.

I have never seen a mouse in a Tokyo restaurant and can only imagine the panic that such a rodent visitation would set off.

She was one of the fastest women in China, and she awaited the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo with pride and anticipation.

The U. S. ambassador in Tokyo, John Roos, recently remarked that Japan's inclusion in the TPP would be a "game changer. "

Some see Japan's unilateral intervention as a lost cause and say that Tokyo should pressure its biggest trading partner to help.

In inner Tokyo, the earthquake shook buildings for a minute and a half.

It all adds up to pushing the limits of what's acceptable usage of mobile media, says this 33-year-old British citizen who lives in Tokyo.

Maria: That's fine. I'll also need these contracts to get to Tokyo by Friday. Send it to the home of the president of the company.

I would like to once again host the Olympics in Tokyo in an attempt to ensure the firm revitalization of Japan and new global prosperity.

'In Tokyo we have to ask twice [to get pictures], ' said Mr. Naret. 'In Kyoto we have to ask three times.

As i called you that you were nominated as PIC of operation for export shipment from Xiamen to Tokyo and maybe Yokohama .

While other quakes ripple towards Tokyo like a rug being flicked, this kind pumps the whole city violently up and down, then side to side.

On Monday, Tokyo said it would ask Beijing to pay for alleged damage to its patrol boats that it says were rammed by Mr. Zhan.

On that occasion there was no repetition of 2003, when Tokyo lavished funds on buying the US currency and undermining its own.

Mrs Lee was tired and hungry after her day's shopping in Tokyo, so she went into a restaurant for dinner.

the winter with you, often thought about the time in Tokyo, watch DVD together , chilling and i miss that donuts we both love. . .

In a forgotten town known as the old capital of Tokyo, strange and mysterious crimes are progressively occurring.

Determined optimists may at least hope Tokyo will have steeled determination to deal with global imbalances at the G20 summit in Seoul.

This sushi bar is just a hole-in-the-wall, but it's quite famous in Tokyo.

Now I'm in Tokyo getting ready to start my next project. Should be pretty fun.

Estate agents dealing with rental properties for expats in Tokyo say business is down significantly from a year ago.

It would be a little bigger than Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. , and on par with the parks in Paris and Tokyo.

Staffers at a supermarket in Tokyo hold up the shelves during a quake that lasted longer than a minute.

It has worked on glass for a Paris airport, an Austrian subway, Tokyo storefronts and is supplying a museum in Anchorage, Alaska.

MHLW tonight that the staff of the Tokyo Electric Power Company suffered so much excess radiation, is a very regrettable.

Officials have considered canceling the show altogether, but it looks as though the 2009 Tokyo show will go on as planned.

Inexperience with marketing and negotiating overseas could also hamper Tokyo's overseas push, he said.

Tokyo Electric Power, which owns the plant, said it had lost the ability to control pressure in some of the reactors.

moscow takes second place in the survey , published by mercer human resource consulting , with tokyo third.

We leave Tokyo early in the morning by Shinkansen which is as exciting as my first travel on this type of speed train almost a week ago.

Filming took place in Tokyo, Bedfordshire and London, Paris, Tangiers, Los Angeles and Calgary in Canada.

We have 4 lives in Osasa and Tokyo, but to have you all come to to see us at Dome like this, each time still feels like a dream for me.

As a result of such efforts, Tokyo Electric Power has been able to meet demand fairly comfortably.

It's believed that the Japanese picked up the work from his Tokyo headquarters.

Then at the end of the month I take a long flight to Tokyo for a short trip (three days) to speak at a CSAL conference.

Property prices in Beijing and Shanghai are now higher than in Tokyo or Seoul, even though average incomes are much lower, he said.

"Neither side at this point has a clear fiscal reform strategy, " said Robert Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo.

Mrs. Clinton stressed in Hanoi that Washington fears the fallout of any further deterioration in relations between Beijing and Tokyo.

When General Doolittle and his men went to bomb Tokyo, on their return some of your boys had to bail out in the interior of China.

I inform you that I have been a pointed the Sole Agent in Tokyo for: The Goodrich Ru er Co. , New York City.

for a thousand years until the capital was moved to tokyo , it served as the center of the japanese culture as its imperial capital.

But the Tokyo Electric Power Company envisages only dozens of kilometers of fault, the case of the tsunami a few meters.

Meanwhile, radiation in the Tokyo water supply continued to diminish on Sunday, the authorities said.

The U. S. late Thursday began flying U. S. citizens out of Japan from Tokyo's Narita Airport aboard civilian charter aircraft.

Moscow muscles in at second place in the survey, released by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, with Tokyo third.

A large group of Japanese lawmakers has visited a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not join them.

It's easy to buy toothpaste in Tokyo or Thailand, but securing medications can be more of a hassle.

One Tokyo resident said he was extremely nervous about the events at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Just last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made Tokyo her first stop on a week-long tour of Asia.

Known as Asia's first amusement park, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland and built in accordance with the United States.

As protesters congregated in a Tokyo square after several marches through the city, there were some confrontations with the police.

Tokyo, meanwhile, is trying to shed its image as primarily a domestic market.

Radiation measured in both Tokyo's air and its water continued to fall Sunday.

Pulpy may be an unfamiliar brand in London, New York or Tokyo.

A spokesman for the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, said last week the bank would continue supporting Acom.

But it is worth bearing in mind that this is not the huge earthquake that seismologists say is long overdue in Tokyo.

On a Wednesday night, carefully coiffed women in fur coats slide into a rooftop bar in Ginza, Tokyo's most exclusive shopping district.

UP IN ARMS: Farmers protested against Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Tokyo Wednesday.

But Tokyo has so far failed to intervene again since mid-September, seeking to distinguish itself from other countries in Asia.

"We thought some of our customers would find it to be overly stimulating, " said a Tokyo Metro official.

Newly elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his wife are in Copenhagen to make the final push for Tokyo.

Company officials in Tokyo said they did not know how many of the factory's 800 workers had participated in the strike.

however , they concocted this savage little stunt the launching of a few army air force bombers against tokyo from the decks of a carrier.

Lucie's face, more than any other, would eventually become synonymous with millennial Tokyo's anxieties, aspirations and in securities.

Panic swept Tokyo, causing some residents to leave the city and others to stock up on food and supplies.

Reported that this was the big earthquake in Japan in March since the aftershocks from the epicenter of an earthquake in Tokyo recently.

But an explicit vow to carry out a third nuclear test will cause alarm, particularly in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.

Takumi Shibata, Nomura chief operating officer, yesterday said in Tokyo that the bank would hire an additional 300 US staff by March.

Yen strength, in other words, is artificial. Tokyo's intervention is only meant to set things back to their natural order.

In Tokyo Tuesday, Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said Japan has no choice but to extend its sanctions against North Korea.

Back in Tokyo, opposition politicians ramped up over the weekend their campaign of criticism against Noda's decision.