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Taiyo Life Insurance President Change Press Conference

Taiyo Life Insurance president change press conference. Photo shows Yasuro Tamura, President-elect (right) and Naoki Soejima, President, shaking hands.=January 31,2025,Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

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Taiyo Life Insurance President Change Press Conference

Taiyo Life Insurance president change press conference. Photo shows President-elect Yasuro Tamura (right) and President Naoki Soejima at the press conference.=January 31,2025,Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

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Taiyo Life Insurance President Change Press Conference

Taiyo Life Insurance president change press conference. Photo shows Yasuro Tamura, President-elect, at the press conference.=January 31,2025,Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

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Japan: Strong Winds Blow Wall Panels Off Structure At Construction Site In Tokyo

A winter low-pressure system brought strong winds to the Kanto region on Tuesday, February 27, with high waves hitting coastal areas, gusts knocking down streetlights and causing walls to topple over in Tokyo. The video shows winds blowing wall panels off a structure on a construction site in Tokyo. Some of the panels fell on vehicles on the adjacent parking lot.

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Nikkei bounces back over 450 pts

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian looks at the price board outside a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on Aug. 20. Tokyo stock prices rebounded sharply, lifting the key Nikkei index more than 450 points buoyed by higher U.S. shares and a weaker yen.

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Book published on landmark Mitsukoshi lion statues

TOKYO, Japan - Eiko Kadono, a noted author of children's books, holds her book "Yoko-chan and Lion" beside one of two bronze lion statues at the Isetan Mitsukoshi retail group's Nihonbashi flagship department store in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2014. The company published the book to celebrate the centennial of the statues' installation.

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Mitsukoshi marks centenary of lion statues with jelly cakes

TOKYO, Japan - An employee at Mitsukoshi Department Store's main outlet in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, holds sweet "yokan" bean jellies produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the erection in 1914 of two lion statues in front of its entrance. The flagship store of the Mitsukoshi chain will put the cakes on sale on April 1.

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Empress visits exhibition of craftwork of mentally disabled

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Empress Michiko looks at craftwork made by mentally disabled students of Tokyo's Asahide Gakuen school in an exhibition at the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo on March 3, 2014.

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New Year sales

TOKYO, Japan - Shoppers crowd the flagship store of Mitsukoshi in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on Jan. 2, 2014. Major Japanese department stores kicked off business for 2014 that day.

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Expensive watch

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Evolution 3-1, a Franck Muller wrist watch that is on sale for 157.5 million yen ($1.6 million) at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Nihonbashi in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on July 10, 2013.

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15-m tall Christmas tree lights up Tokyo department store

TOKYO, Japan - A lighting ceremony for a 15-meter tall Christmas tree, about the size of a five-story building and one of the largest in Japan, is held at the Mitsukoshi department store in the plush Nihonbashi shopping area in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2009. The eco-friendly tree made of metal for repeated use and decorated with 25,000 light-emitting diode bulbs that require less power will be set up at the store's central hall until Dec. 25, store officials said.

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15-m tall Christmas tree lights up Tokyo department store

TOKYO, Japan - A mother and her baby pose for a commemorative photograph in front of a 15-meter tall Christmas tree, one of the largest in Japan, at the Mitsukoshi department store in the plush Nihonbashi shopping area in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2009, with a ''Green Santa Claus,'' an environmental goodwill ambassador from Denmark. The eco-friendly tree made of metal for repeated use and decorated with 25,000 light-emitting diode bulbs that require less power will be set up at the store's central hall until Dec. 25, store officials said.

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Nikkei falls below 10,000 to 3-week low

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic board in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district shows Japan's key Nikkei stock index falling below 10,000 on the morning of Oct. 29, 2009, for the first time in three weeks, hit by a stronger yen and sharp losses on Wall Street overnight.

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Nikkei briefly recovers 10,000 mark for 1st time since October

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a stock board in Tokyo's Nihonbashi business district showing the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei Stock Average pass the 10,000 line on June 11 for the first time in eight months.

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Solar-powered Xmas tree with LED illumination goes on display

TOKYO, Japan - A 15-meter-high solar-powered Christmas tree with some 20,000 light emitting diode, or LED, lights is unveiled for the season at the Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on Nov. 1. The tree will remain on display until Dec. 25.

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Nikkei ends 6% higher

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic board at a securities company in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on Oct. 28 shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average up 459.02 points from Oct. 27 to 7,621.92 after reversing earlier losses that sent the key Nikkei index falling below the 7,000 line for the first time in 26 years.

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Tokyo stocks plunge on persistent worries about global economy

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic board of a securities company in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on Oct. 23 shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average losing 213.71 points to 8,460.98 at the close of the day's trading session as stocks continued to retreat on persistent worries about the global economy and the yen's sharp rise against the U.S. dollar and euro.

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Tokyo stocks tumble, Nikkei ends with 2nd largest drop

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard at a securities company in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average dropping 1,089.02 points, or 11.41 percent, to 8,458.45, its second-largest single-day percentage drop. The overnight 700-point plunge of the Dow Jones industrials on sluggish macroeconomic readings battered investor confidence.

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Mitsukoshi, Isetan merge to create Japan's top dept. store

TOKYO, Japan - Staffers at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district welcome customers on April 1, the first day Mitsukoshi Ltd. integrated managements with Isetan Co. under a holding company to create Japan's largest department store group.

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Nikkei plunges 4%, closes below 13,000

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard at a securities firm in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district shows Japan's Nikkei Stock Average falling 610.84 points on March 3. The index closed below the 13,000 mark for the first time since Jan. 23 on the dollar's sharp depreciation against the yen and escalating fears of a hard-hitting U.S. recession.

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Diamond-studded Christmas tree going for 200.7 million yen

TOKYO, Japan - A diamond-studded Christmas tree is on display at the Nihonbashi Takashimaya department store in Tokyo on Nov. 13. The 40-centimeter-tall Christmas tree is studded with 400 diamonds, the largest weighing 3 karats, and lined with chemically treated miniature roses. The Christmas tree comes with a teddy bear with a diamond necklace. Takashimaya says the set was specially designed for Christmas 2007 with the price set at 200.7 million yen. Without the diamonds, the tree and the teddy bear carry a more affordable price tag: 52,500 yen. The diamond Christmas tree set will be displayed for public viewing from Nov. 14 to Dec. 4.

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Miss Universe, kabuki actor join Cool Biz operation

TOKYO, Japan - Miss Universe 2006 Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza (R) and kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro (L) join Envronment Minister Yuriko Koike (C) in spraying water on the pavement in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, on Aug. 2. Koike, who spearheads the government(s ''Cool Biz'' campaign, looked happy later, saying that the operation helped cut the temperature on the pavement by 1.5 degrees centigrade.

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Nikkei stock index finishes above 13,000 for 1st time in more than 4 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic board in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district shows the key Nikkei stock index rising above the 13,000 line on the morning of Sept. 20. The index finished the day above 13,000 for the first time in more than four years on continuing optimism over the Japanese economy.

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Takashimaya opens ''Warm Biz'' corner

TOKYO, Japan - Takashimaya Co. at its outlet in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district opens the ''Warm Biz'' corner ahead of the start of the government-inspired ''Warm Biz'' campaign from Oct. 1, an autumn-winter version of the ''Cool Biz'' campaign held during summer, to promote energy conservation by encouraging business people to wear more layers of clothing and help reduce the use of heaters.

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Housesitter robot to be launched in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Robot developing company tmsuk Co. has began taking orders for a housesitter robot named Roborior (in photo), which can be wirelessly controlled via a mobile phone from a remote place, at a price of 294,000 yen per unit. The Kitakyushu-based company exhibited the robot at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi to solicit orders ahead of its planned launch in September. It aims to sell about 3,000 units of the 26-centimeter-high robot weighing 3.25 kilograms.

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8.8 bil. yen diamond necklace on display in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A model wears a necklace with a 203-carat diamond, one of the world's largest, at a ceremony to mark the opening of a De Beers LV shop in Takashimaya Co.'s Nihonbashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 9. The diamond is valued at 8.8 billion yen.

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Nikkei ends above 10,000 on hopes for economic recovery

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian points to the price board at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on Aug. 18 as the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average climbs 169.50 points to close above the 10,000 threshold for the first time since Aug. 26, 2002.

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Nikkei hits new 19-yr low

TOKYO, Japan - A stock price board at a brokerage in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average of shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange falling to a new 19-year closing low of 8,438.52. The market ignored the release of data the same day showing the Japanese economy kept growing from the beginning of this year.

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Tokyo stocks fall further

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian walks by the price board at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district Sept. 4 as share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange took another severe beating, with the Nikkei Stock Average briefly dipping below the crucial 9,000 mark to hit a fresh 19-year low. The benchmark index fell 141.95 points to close at 9,075.09 after touching 8,995.20 earlier in the day.

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(2)Tokyo stocks plunge to early 1980s levels

TOKYO, Japan - The price board outside a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district shows the Nikkei Stock Average shed 304.59 points to close at 9,217.04 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Sept. 3, the lowest level since Sept. 19, 1983.

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Nikkei ends below 12,000 for 1st time in over 4 months

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at the prive board at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihonbashi on July 18 as the Nikkei Stock Average closes below 12,000 for the first time in more than four months.

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Nikkei ends morning slightly above 12,500

TOKYO, Japan - A passerby looks at an electronic signboard of stock prices at a brokerage company in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on March 2. That day, the Nikkei Stock Average ended the morning session off 178.10 points, or 1.4%, at 12,503.56. The benchmark index fell to as low as 12,428.48 at one point in the morning, down over 250 points. It was the first time since September 1985 for the index to fall below 12,500.

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Nikkei dives to 15-year low

TOKYO, Japan - A woman passes by a stock price board in Tokyo's Nihonbashi on March 1 as the Nikkei Stock Average plummeted to close at its lowest level in over 15 years despite the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) surprise rate cuts. The benchmark 225-issue Nikkei, which fell 176.32 points the previous day, dived a further 201.88 points, or 1.57%, to 12,681.66, its lowest close since November 1985.

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Nikkei tumbles to 27-month low in morning

TOKYO, Japan - An electric signboard at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihonbashi commercial district shows the Nikkei Stock Average plunged to a 27-month low in the morning session of Feb. 8. Tokyo stocks were battered by a fall in the U.S. Nasdaq index overnight and data showing a shrinkage of the Japanese economy.

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Bears push Nikkei down to 27-month closing low

TOKYO, Japan - People watch a price board outside a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihonbashi area Jan. 11 as stock prices plunge to a 27-month low. The Nikkei Stock Average slid a further 231.58 points to 13,201.07, its lowest close since Oct. 15, 1998.

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Stock prices close at 20-month high

Two unidentified persons watch the stock price board put up outside a Nihonbashi securities house in Tokyo June 17. Stock prices moved up strongly on the back of an overnight rally on Wall Street, with the Nikkei 225 index closing at a 20-month high.

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Mie Terrace to close temporarily due to new coronavirus

In response to a request from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Kanagawa Prefecture to refrain from going out unnecessarily in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, we decided to close temporarily on March 28 and 29, 2020. The photo shows a sign announcing the temporary closure. March 27, 2020, Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Nihonbashi Takashimaya S.C. Main building temporarily closed due to the new coronavirus

The Tokyo metropolitan government and Kanagawa Prefecture have asked people to refrain from going out unnecessarily to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and Takashimaya has temporarily closed three major stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The photo shows a sign announcing the temporary closure. The photo shows a sign announcing the temporary closure of Takashimaya stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area on March 27, 2020.

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Nihonbashi Takashimaya S.C. new building temporarily closed due to the new coronavirus

The Tokyo metropolitan government and Kanagawa prefecture asked people to refrain from going out unnecessarily to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, and Takashimaya closed three major stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area temporarily. The photo shows the digital signage announcing the temporary closure. The photo shows digital signage announcing the temporary closure of Takashimaya stores in Chuo-ku, Tokyo on February 27, 2020.

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Nihonbashi Takashimaya S.C. Main building temporarily closed due to the new coronavirus

The Tokyo metropolitan government and Kanagawa Prefecture have asked people to refrain from going out unnecessarily to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and Takashimaya has temporarily closed three major stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The photo shows a sign announcing the temporary closure. The photo shows a sign announcing the temporary closure of Takashimaya stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area on March 27, 2020.

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REGAL Nihonbashi temporarily closed due to the new coronavirus

In response to a request from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Kanagawa Prefecture to refrain from going out unnecessarily in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, we decided to close temporarily on March 28 and 29, 2020. The photo shows a sign announcing the temporary closure. March 27, 2020, Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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