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...with galleries the size of aircraft hangars. Massive-and massively expensive-Hummer suvs squeeze through the city's capillary-sized streets, ferrying the wealthy to new clubs and bars like Roppongi's Crystal Lounge, which features crystal-encrusted replicas of Michelangelo's David and the Venus de Milo. Corporate Japan's balance sheet has never been stronger, led by Toyota, which just reported a record $3.5 billion profit for the last three months of 2006. At the end of March, Japan's capital will receive a new crown jewel: the 54-story Tokyo Midtown complex in Roppongi, which will feature...
...lovers' holiday in the west turned into a quasi-feminist chocolate orgy is unclear. The the first Valentine's sale in Japan took place in 1958 and Tokyo chocolatier Mary Chocolate's event generated 150 yen total in sales (the company sold three bars of chocolate in three days). Nevertheless, the marketing opportunity would not be lost in translation. According to the Chocolate & Cocoa Association of Japan, of the $3.6 billion annual sale of chocolate in 2005 (the latest available year), $400 million, or over 10% was spent during the crucial days leading up to Valentine's. This year, Japanese...
...streets of our cities. We throw away our cell phones within a year and replace them with the latest model so that we can show off to our friends. Let's not leave it up to the government or technology to solve environmental issues for us. Makiko Kawamura Urayasu, Japan...
...decided not to let a bunch of horse freaks, regardless of how hot they once were, prevent me from eating meat enjoyed in Japan, Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. I quickly found out, however, that it's just about impossible to get a good piece of horse in the U.S. There had been three horsemeat-processing plants here that shipped meat overseas for consumption by humans and kept some behind for consumption by animals. But the two plants in Texas were ordered shut last month when a court of appeals agreed to enforce a 1949 state...
...nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, which produces the basic fissile material it needs for the bomb. There is also talk that international inspectors may be allowed back into North Korea to visit Yongbyon and perhaps other nuclear sites. In return, the U.S. and its allies in the talks - China, Russia, Japan and South Korea - would move to provide significant energy assistance to impoverished North Korea. Washington and Tokyo would also begin steps to normalize relations with the North...