Grand Hyatt kitchen fire prompts evacuation at Roppongi Hills; no one injured
A fire broke out at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi Hills on Sunday, prompting about 200 people to evacuate. An oven at a steak house on the hotel's sixth floor caught fire at around 7:30 p.m., damaging about 10 sq. meters of its ceiling ...
Sugar, spice and all things nice in Roppongi's craft beer bars
Depending on who you ask, Roppongi is either Tokyo's most sophisticated neighborhood or its seediest. Yet everyone can agree it's one of the city's most international. Each night, expats, emigres and immigrants wend their way through a landscape of restaurants, hostess bars, art galleries ...
An iron pipe that fell Friday from near the 10th story of a building under construction in Tokyo's Roppongi district struck a pedestrian on the head and killed him Friday, police said. The accident occurred just before 10 a.m. as workers were dismantling scaffolding. Rescue ...
French director Jean-Jacques Beineix to head jury for 29th Tokyo International Film Festival
More than 200 films will be screened, with 16 taking part in the competition section, at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) running from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3. The 29th TIFF will take place at Roppongi Hills in Minato Ward. Jean-Jacques Beineix, director of ...
The world's second museum dedicated to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang will open in Tokyo's Roppongi shopping and entertainment district in March for a period of 2½ years, according to Sony Creative Products Inc., the comic strip's exclusive agent ...
'Bottakuri' scams put the squeeze on the unwary
"On any given evening, you can see noisy quarrels between club staff and customers outside the local police box," attorney Katsuyuki Aoshima tells Asahi Geino (May 2), adding, "The police treat these as civil claims between the shop and the customer, and won't get ...
Blue Bottle Coffee Inc., a U.S. coffee chain dubbed by some the "Apple of coffee," is considering expanding further in Japan, according to the company's founder and CEO. James Freeman, who heads the chain known for using fresh beans within 48 hours of roasting, said ...
Readers' letters: Roppongi, Ferguson, 'Massan,' Julien Blanc and more
Some emails received in response to Community articles at the tail end of 2014.
Kick out the touts who rule Roppongi
if you are touted in Roppongi, do not waste your time reporting it to the police. You will be in for a very humiliating experience, as I discovered recently.
Get the taste of Brazil right at Caipirinha Bar
Even if you don't care for the nightclubs, rowdy bars and other delights of the Roppongi scene, Caipirinha Bar is one of those rare places that doesn't give off that general "Roppongi" feel that leads some patrons to take their drinking elsewhere. The bar, ...
Bernd Haag: 'Learn a new language and start to think global'
Name: Bernd Haag Age: 52 Nationality: German Occupation: Beer pub owner Likes: Sports, reading a book on a trip, my business 1. What first brought you to Japan? My profession — few German beer pubs existed in Japan 20 years ago. I was also in love with a ...
Sexual assault warrant issued for ex-Grand Hyatt exec who left Japan
A former general manager of the Grand Hyatt Tokyo is facing arrest over his suspected sexual assault on a female customer in a bathroom at the upscale hotel in central Tokyo in May, police sources said Tuesday. But Antonio Alvarez, a 45-year-old Spaniard who assumed ...
