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Base-laden Okinawa vies to become tourism magnet
Just a couple minutes from the Okinawa Prefectural Government building and the busy shopping street Kokusai-dori, Sora Shokudo offers jerk chicken on the menu — a Caribbean cuisine that goes well with rum — which is now also produced in Okinawa and attracting interest ...
Okinawa base referendum could deal nationwide electoral blow to Abe
The outcome of a referendum in Okinawa showing that a vast majority of residents oppose the bilateral Futenma air base relocation plan may deal a blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government at elections across the country this year. More than 70 percent of voters ...
Workers complain of unbearable foul smells at new Toyosu market
Workers at the new Toyosu wholesale food market in Tokyo are having to hold their noses as disgusting stenches, mainly of fish, have started to emanate from some locations in the site. At the market, which opened last month to take over the wholesale market ...
Japan's foreign press club to return to Tokyo's Marunouchi district
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan will relocate on Oct. 29 to Tokyo's Marunouchi business district, where former war correspondents and photographers established the club following World War II. The FCCJ's departure from its current premises in the Yurakucho Denki Building marks its fourth relocation ...
Electric carts and forklifts begin moving from Tsukiji to Tokyo's new fish market at Toyosu
A number of electric carts and forklifts traveled in a convoy on a road in central Tokyo early Sunday morning as they moved from the closed Tsukiji fish market to a new site at the Toyosu waterfront area. The operators of the low-speed mini-vehicles drove ...
The Yoshinoya outlet at the origin of the nationwide gyūdon (beef on rice) chain — located inside Tokyo's Tsukiji wholesale food market — closed its doors for the last time Saturday, ending its 59-year-old history due to the relocation of the famed market. Many customers ...
Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market, opened in the wake of Kanto quake, reaches an end
Old-fashioned and full of nostalgia, the renowned Tsukiji fish market is at its busiest before dawn. Hand-written signs by small-fish wholesalers are lit with white lamps in the otherwise dark corridors of the market as workers prepare for the morning's main event: the tuna auction. Hundreds ...
Yoshinoya's first outlet, located in Tsukiji market, to close after 59 years
The first Yoshinoya gyūdon (beef on rice) restaurant, located within Tokyo's Tsukiji wholesale market, will close on Oct. 6, ending a 59-year history, due to the relocation of the market. The Tsukiji outlet is known for how it served gyūdon between 2004 and 2006, when ...
Tsukiji fish market's tuna auction opens to media for final time before Toyosu move
Media were invited to a tuna auction at Tsukiji fish market on Friday, a day before the public gets its last chance to attend the famous Tokyo institution at its current site before it is relocated in October. At the 6 a.m. auction, 253 frozen ...
Operation Tsukiji: Tokyo battles rats as iconic market shuts
The operation must be ruthless, thorough and silent. Without alerting the watchful enemy, a unit of highly trained agents at work in Tokyo throw up a ring of steel to block any escape. Despite being vastly outnumbered, the unit's chief commander is confident of total ...
Okinawa's governor moves to retract landfill work approval needed to move Futenma base
The order is seen as a last-ditch effort to block the central government’s long-delayed plan to move the unpopular base.
Landfill work connected to Futenma base transfer in Okinawa set to start in July
The government in July plans to begin land reclamation work at the site of a controversial U.S. military base transfer in Okinawa Prefecture, sources said Saturday. The relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from a crowded residential area in southern Okinawa faces strong ...
