Kyodo News to construct new headquarters

Kyodo News to construct new headquarters

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the projected new headquarters of Kyodo News to be completed by June 2003. Kyodo said Oct. 23 it will hold a ground-breaking ceremony Oct. 24 to commemorate the start of construction of the new 34-story headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The ''Shiodome Media Tower'' will be constructed on a land plot which was once part of the premises of the defunct Japanese National Railways' (JNR) Shiodome freight train station.

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