News from Khaleej Times - 07/05/2011
Dare the Japanese dream
Shinzo Hamai, who took over the helm of an atom-bombed and destitute Hiroshima in the spring of 1947 and who, over four terms as mayor, helped stir it back to life from the brink of hell, wrote in his memoirs that so utterly hopeless was Hiroshima’s predicament in those immediate postwar months that he and his friends started a “Dreamers Club.”
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News from rediff.com - 06/24/2011
IMAGES: World's 20 most spectacular buildings
These are the modern wonders of the world.
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News from Chicago Tribune - 04/10/2011
Shuttered Tokyo hotel reopens for evacuees
The upscale Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, which closed last month, has been turned into a temporary home for 360 evacuees from Japan's disaster-hit northern region. It is one example of the creative ways government officials are housing those in need. Room 1648 at the upscale Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka isn't fancy, but it sure beats Mina Ariga's old digs: an evacuation shelter in the Tokyo ...
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News from Japan Today - 03/31/2011
Travel › Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka ends 55-year history
The Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Thursday ended its 55-year history, after attracting attention as a site for politicians' meetings and…
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News from AsiaOne - 03/25/2011
Tokyo luxury hotel to house nuclear plant evacuees
OSAKA, JAPAN - A 700-room Tokyo luxury hotel tower due for demolition this year will first be used as an evacuation centre for people who fled areas near a stricken nuclear plant, a city official said Friday.
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News from Japan Today - 03/25/2011
National › Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka to shelter evacuees before demolition
Formerly a popular dating spot and venue for glitzy televised wedding receptions for celebrities, the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka in central Tokyo has been given…
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News from New York Post - 03/25/2011
6.4 quake strikes Japan near March 11 epicenter, Fukushima situation 'unpredictable'
TOKYO -- A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on Friday. The earthquake hit at 8:36pm local time, 66 miles east of Sendai and at a depth of 24.4 miles, close to the epicenter of the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the...
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News from The Japan Times - 03/24/2011
Prince hotel spared wrecking ball to house evacuees
The Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, once one of the trendiest hotels in Japan and set to close at the end of March, announced Thursday that it will remain open to accommodate refugees made homeless by the March 11 earthquake and radiation leaks at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. In collaboration with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the hotel will put up about 1,600 evacuees from Fukushima ...
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News from The Temasek Review - 03/15/2011
Hard Truths debunk misconcept ions
Dear Mr Tom Plate, I refer to the 22 Feb 2011 Straits Times report of your assessment of the book “Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going”. You call this book a national self-examination. It is not. It continues to be one man’s self-praise, self-denial. You cannot recall a comparable tome from America because no [...]
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News from The Japan Times - 02/18/2011
Akasaka Prince hotel starts nostalgic farewell
Ahead of its closure at the end of March, Tokyo's once ultra-chic Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka is hosting a series of farewell events, some of them a throwback to the 1980s, when the nation was indulging in the excesses of the bubble economy. Better known as the Akasaka Prince, or "Aka Puri," the top-of-the-line hotel was one of the trendiest dating scenes in the bubble days.
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News from Japan Today - 02/17/2011
Business › Akasaka Prince hotel holds farewell events ahead of closure
Ahead of its closure at the end of March, Tokyo's once ultra-chic Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka is hosting a series of farewell events, some of…
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News from Daily Telegraph - 02/11/2011
Japan: Welcome to Planet Tokyo
The Japanese capital is frenetic and unfathomable - and that's what makes it so compelling.
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News from People's Daily - 01/11/2011
Birthplace of Gautam Buddha archaeological survey begins in Nepal
An international team of archaeologists has begun a three-year survey of the archaeological vestiges in Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, in southern Nepal.
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News from Art Daily - 12/21/2010
Valencian Institute for Modern Art Dedicates Exhibition to Paolo Riani: A World of Architects
Work by Paolo Riani. VALENCIA.- The exhibition dedicated by the IVAM to Paolo Riani comprises, apart from photographs taken all over Europe, America, Japan, Russia and Arabia, a selection of architectonic projects and collections of objects (miniature aeroplanes made of wood or beautiful pieces fashioned in original shapes, ships and ship parts, scale models, etc.) that give us an overview of ...
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News from Baltimore Sun - 11/23/2010
Sun Magazine: Real housewives of the Baltimore Ravens
Their husbands are tearing up the gridiron this season, but these women are a special team of their own. If you need any more reason to be glad you live in an American rather than a British football town, consider the WAGs.
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News from Baltimore Sun - 11/23/2010
The real housewives of the Baltimore Ravens
Their husbands are tearing up the gridiron this season, but these women are a special team of their own. Their husbands are tearing up the gridiron, but these women are a special team of their own.
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News from Baltimore Sun - 11/23/2010
SUN MAGAZINE PREVIEW The real housewives of the Baltimore Ravens
Their husbands are tearing up the gridiron this season, but these women are a special team of their own. If you need any more reason to be glad you live in an American rather than a British football town, consider the WAGs — Wives and Girlfriends of footballers, what we on this side of the pond call soccer players. These blingy, free-spending and partying women have become fixtures in the ...
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News from Baltimore Sun - 11/23/2010
SUN MAGAZINE PREVIEW The real housewives of the Ravens
Their husbands are tearing up the gridiron this season, but these women are a special team of their own. If you need any more reason to be glad you live in an American rather than a British football town, consider the WAGs — Wives and Girlfriends of footballers, what we on this side of the pond call soccer players. These blingy, free-spending and partying women have become fixtures in the ...
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News from Architect Magazine - 10/04/2010
Kengo Kuma Triumphs in Defeat
Oct. 03--Kengo Kuma might be the most self-effacing architect around.
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News from The Japan Times - 09/09/2010
Royal trappings grace Akasaka Guest House
People who visited the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, may have stepped into the old two-story Guest House, which stands behind the 40-story main hotel. The Guest House now hosts a renowned French restaurant, Le Trianon, the Napoleon Bar and several banquet halls.
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