100 YEARS AGO SUNDAY, AUG. 5, 1917 A message from Urawa states that one Miyo Sekine, a woman of 49 years, living at Hirakata-mura, Kita-Adachigori, Saitama Prefecture, committed suicide by throwing herself into a well in her neighborhood on Thursday. The woman picked up the other ...
A 16-year-old high school student and two men were arrested Monday for allegedly robbing a man of a bag containing about ¥72 million ($650,900) in cash in Tokyo's posh Ginza shopping district in April, police said. Okito Ogasawara, 20, Yuta Kurata, 23, and the teen ...
Real estate developer Mori Trust Co. and U.S. hotel operator Marriott International Inc. said Wednesday that Marriott's top luxury hotel brand will open for the first time in Japan in 2020 to attract foreign tourists ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games. High-end hotel Edition will ...
Ryohin Keikaku Co. will open a hotel in spring 2019 in Tokyo's posh Ginza district, the operator of the Muji household item shops has said. The hotel, tentatively called Muji Hotel, will become the first of its kind to be developed in Japan by Ryohin ...
Land prices in Japan rose 0.4 percent on average as of Jan. 1 from a year earlier, marking the second consecutive year of gain, the National Tax Agency said in its annual report released Monday. The highest land price in the country was ¥40.32 million ...
Land prices in Tokyo's central Chuo Ward, home to the famous Ginza shopping district, have jumped by 51 percent in four years. In Osaka, they are up by nearly half. Booming construction of hotels, office buildings, shopping centers and apartments, financed by record lending for ...
A new 13-story upscale mall has opened in Ginza, Tokyo’s answer to the Champs-Elysees or Fifth Avenue, and it's proving that Japan is still a whale in the luxury business.
A self-employed man in his 40s was robbed of ¥40 million in cash during a daylight mugging in Tokyo's busy Ginza district Friday afternoon. According to the Metropolitan Police Department's Tsukiji Police Station, the mugging, believed to involve three men, took place on Suzuran Street ...
A new shopping complex opened Thursday at the former site of the Matsuzakaya department store in Tokyo's Ginza district featuring high-end boutiques and a traditional performing art theater targeting both foreign tourists and domestic customers. The 13-story Ginza Six complex hosts a total of 241 ...
A major commercial complex called Ginza Six, in Tokyo's posh Ginza shopping district, was unveiled to the media Friday ahead of its official opening on Thursday. The 19-story building has six underground floors and houses 241 stores and restaurants, including flagship outlets for international brands ...
Philip Morris Japan Ltd. said Thursday that it will open a store in Tokyo's Ginza district on Friday to sell its smokeless tobacco device iQOS. Also on Thursday, Japan Tobacco Inc. opened to the media a special shop in Fukuoka that will sell its smokeless ...
The Printemps Ginza department store closed Saturday after 32 years of doing business in central Tokyo's famed Ginza shopping district with the expiration of its contract with its French licensee. Most of the building will be refurbished and reopen on March 15 as Marronnier Gate, ...
