Tokyo's new governor, Ishihara Shintaro, has his own idea about easing airport congestion in the city.
Errors introduced in the new Maps app include labelling Tokyo's main airport as a paper factory, showing towns in the wrong places and suggesting directions that would take users on strange routes.
Dropping his language that loose monetary policy was part of a "currency war" against emerging economies, Guido Mantega, Brazil's finance minister, described Tokyo's revitalised policy as "a new and bold program of economic growth, based on fiscal and monetary stimulus and structural reforms".
Given the zeal of Tokyo's prosecutors, new arrests are likely in the next few weeks.
It is true, says Tony Travers of the London School of Economics, that London's mayor is weaker than his counterparts in New York and Tokyo, and that much power, particularly over schools, remains with the city's 32 boroughs.
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Mr Koike's interest in Japan's Internet prospects was fuelled in February 1999, when a friend invited him to a new-business conference in Tokyo organised by Japan's trade and industry ministry.
The deal calls for expanded production of McQueen's womenswsear and menswear lines by Gucci's manufacturers, a rollout of McQueen boutiques in London (a flagship store on Bond Street), Tokyo and New York (near Stella McCartney's shop by the semi-gentrified meatpacking district) and for Alexander McQueen ready-to-wear collections to be shown in Paris.
Toyota engineers diplomatically toasted their new partners at Nissan during a celebratory dinner in Tokyo's flashy Ginza district after the deal was announced.
The BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo says the new prime minister will have to oversee the biggest reconstruction effort in Japan since WWII and resolve the nuclear crisis at Fukushima where reactors are still leaking radiation.
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Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi, surpassed by Nikko's new top shareholder, Citigroup, was miffed.
It's the world's third-largest exchange, after New York and Tokyo, for gold trading, and the second largest for both silver and natural gas.
The Tokyo government's answer is to stipulate that all new skyscrapers build rooftop gardens to mitigate the effects of warming in the largely concrete city.
These complaints have found an audience with officials in the Bloomberg administration, who are concerned about New York's ability to compete against cities like London and Tokyo for the world's leading companies.
Sony sold its U.S. headquarters building on New York's Madison Avenue in January, as well as other buildings in Tokyo.
The bank holding company trades on the New York Stock Exchange but is majority-owned by Japan's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.
These are the first new domestic carriers in 40 years and in March they received six slots at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
But today's 11-hour junkets from San Francisco to Tokyo eclipse the DC-7-era's San Francisco-New York routes by just three hours, and come with a lot more comfort (though no doubt the players' union would have plenty to say about such trips).
Naoki Inose, who is chairman of Tokyo's Olympic bid committee, made the comments in an interview in New York.
Last year sold most of stake in flagship Roppongi Hills in Tokyo to help fund new development, including a 47-story tower in Japan's capital.
Japan applied it's new anti-piracy law for the first time and transported the men to Tokyo to face trial.
But nowadays Amstrad dominates the market not just in home computers and laptops but in mobile phones, while Clive Sinclair's latest tablet had geeks queueing outside Spectrum stores in London, New York and Tokyo.
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But perhaps the world's most successful at this is New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a chain of 40 shops, from Texas to Tokyo, selling replicas of its exhibits though the Met declines to say how much profit these stores make.
Tokyo metropolitan elections that month will command all the energies of the LDP's junior coalition partner, New Komeito.
"Buyouts are a totally new business in Japan, " says Kensuke Shizunaga, who is the cohead of Carlyle's buyout team in Tokyo.
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