Tag: Tokyo
Sony falls below 1,000 yen for first time since 1980
Sony shares tumbled below 1,000 yen for the first time since 1980 as the Tokyo stock market plunged early Monday following a dismal performance...
Japan arrests fugitive for 1995 Tokyo subway attack
Police in Japan were Monday quizzing a woman over the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway that killed 13 people, leaving only one...
Tokyo stocks end down 1.20%
Tokyo stocks fell 1.20 percent on Friday amid concerns over the US economy and the yen's surge against the euro, driven by Europe's fiscal...
Kenya’s Kipyego wins Tokyo marathon
Kenya's Michael Kipkorir Kipyego got the better of former world record holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia in the last four kilometres to win the...
Thousands rally against nuclear power in Japan
Thousands demonstrated in Tokyo on Saturday against nuclear power generation, 11 months after a massive earthquake and tsunami sparked reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima...
Powerful quake rocks Tokyo region
A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Tokyo Sunday, Japan's Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury and no tsunami...
Pakistan judo team in Grand Slam Tokyo
Shah Hussain will make a second attempt to confirm Pakistan’s presence at the 2012 Olympics’ Judo event when he tries his luck at the...
Radiation hotspot detected in Tokyo
A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo, reports said Thursday as researchers carry out stringent tests to map how far contamination has spread...
Nadal hooks Fish to reach Tokyo final
Noodle fiend Rafa Nadal overpowered American Mardy Fish 7-5 6-1 behind a dizzying flurry of baseline winners to reach the final of the Japan...
Nadal fights fire with fire in Tokyo win
Rafa Nadal had to dig deep after coming under heavy fire from Colombia's Santiago Giraldo in a brutal 7-6 6-3 quarter-final victory at the...
Zvonareva floors Kvitova in Tokyo semis
Fourth seed Vera Zvonareva bundled Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova out of the Pan Pacific Open with a 7-6 6-0 victory on Friday to book...
Wozniacki crashes out, Sharapova advances in Tokyo
Unseeded Estonian Kaia Kanepi toppled world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament on Wednesday, dashing the Dane’s hopes of...
Sharapova storms into third round in Tokyo
Maria Sharapova shrugged off last year’s disappointing first-round exit as she got off to a confident start in beating Tamarine Tanasugarn in the Pan...
Sharapova and Li to lead charge in Tokyo
Wimbledon finalist Maria Sharapova, French Open champion Li Na and world number one Caroline Wozniacki will headline this year’s Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo organisers...
Foreign investors lured to rebounding Japan
Investment may flourish again in Japan as value-hunters return to a market that is slowly rebounding after the March earthquake, but only if the...
Mitsubishi creates giant globe for Tokyo Museum
This giant light-up disco ball is nearly 20 feet in diameter and is comprised of an astounding 10,000 OLED displays. Mitsubishi calls it their...
Strong quake shakes buildings in Tokyo
TOKYO - A strong earthquake of magnitude 5.9 hit central Japan at 11:19 am (0219 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said Saturday. There was no chance of a tsunami, it said.
