This is why stocks cost, except for fractions of a moment, the same in London and New York, bonds in Tokyo and London, tin in Jakarta and Munich (allowing for taxes and transport costs).
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This included entertainment by geisha, flights in police helicopters, sidetrips to Kyoto (250 km from Nagano) and shopping in Tokyo, where they and their friends were offered cam eras and compact-disc players.
Our other correspondents in Asia--Robyn Meredith in Hong Kong, naturally, and also Justin Doebele in Singapore and Benjamin Fulford in Tokyo--confront the topic nearly every day.
Its jewelry can also be found in trendy multi-brand stores, such as Colette in Paris, and Restir in Tokyo.
CNN's John Sutter in Atlanta, Yoko Wakatsuki and Alex Zolbert in Tokyo, Diego Lage in Hong Kong and Laura Mackenzie in London contributed to this report.
One of my closest friends has a son who studied both computer science and Japanese in college and also spent two summers in Tokyo, first taking language classes and then working as an intern at a technology company.
The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
It is now more costly to live in London and Paris than in Tokyo, which was unseated from the top spot in last year's survey.
The bill paid, and back in Tokyo, Mr Hashimoto will then be free to get on with the biggest task confronting his administration this year.
Most major Japanese banks store duplicate sets of data in computer centers 600 km apart in Osaka and Tokyo, in case a major quake hits one city.
The Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living in Tokyo reckons there are 3m young women living within an hour of Shibuya's shops, poised to pounce on the latest fad.
Ms. de Taillac splits her time between Paris and Jaipur, where she works with artisans who use methods dating back to the maharajahs, and she has stores in Tokyo and Paris.
Associated Press writers Haggag Salama in Luxor, Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong, Jill Lawless in London, Angela Charlton in Paris, and Malcolm Foster in Tokyo contributed to this report.
Williams, who has 13 Grand Slam titles and two Olympic Gold metals, announced on Saturday that she would be pulling out of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and the China Open in Beijing later this year in order to continue healing after a July foot injury.
There are even Hello Kitty business ties and Hello Kitty baseball pitching machines in Tokyo and Kobe.
He has exhibited at the Hayward Gallery in London, The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany.
The rush-hour crush in the biggest Japanese cities, already a trying routine, might well resemble urban warfare but for their extensive subway systems (about 171 km in Tokyo and 115 km in Osaka).
The country recruited Brazilians and Peruvians of Japanese descent to work in the industrial clusters around Tokyo and Nagoya in Aichi prefecture that serve the country's giant carmakers and electronics firms.
Ghosn spends a day and half in China and heads to Tokyo, where on Tuesday he announces the sale of most of Nissan's 19% stake in Nissan Diesel to a rival, Volvo ab.
One, we have a team of 11 technical experts who continue to work in Tokyo to provide assistance to the Japanese government and to the ambassador in Tokyo.
Hingis started 2007 in some style with her 43rd and final singles title in Tokyo, but the remainder of the year has been dogged by further injuries and finally the revelation of a positive test for cocaine at Wimbledon which has brought her glittering career to an end.
Set in a Milanese palazzo (a grand public building) north of the city centre, the concept is a winning combination of a three-room hotel, art gallery, design boutique and cafe-restaurant, and Sozzani has since replicated its success in Tokyo and Seoul.
Israel "Lev" Levarek, owner of a 13-year-old toy store with three employees, is considering making his first trip to Japan in three years, so he can buy Transformers action figures from wholesalers and shopping malls in Tokyo.
The former world number one spent three years out of the sport before returning to the tour in 2006, and won three titles in Kolkata, Roma and Tokyo.
It opened new stores for different lines, including an Armani Exchange location in New York City and Armani Collezioni stores in Milan, London and Tokyo.
Among energy plays, Woodside Petroleum gained 1.9% in Sydney, Inpex rose 1.6% in Tokyo and Cnooc climbed 1.1% in Hong Kong.
Television assembly plants in Poland, Malaysia, Mexico and some office buildings in Tokyo may also be thrown into the sale bonanza.
Nationwide department store sales edged ahead by 0.3% in June and 0.4% in Tokyo compared to one year ago.
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And a handful of squares on the Japanese property board, such as prime office districts in Tokyo and a few other cities, are already enjoying rising prices.
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