When the existing Tokyo building was deemed too prosaic, too generic, Johansson and architect Andreas Fornell redesigned the interior to resemble a modern Swedish house.
"I feel sorry for him, " says Tokyo building worker Ono Torao.
An exodus of people from Tokyo is building as the threat of rising radiation levels is prompting many to flee the capital.
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Following the path leads to arguably the most splendid Shinto shrine in Tokyo, a traditional building constructed from Japanese cypress.
The firm has also offloaded its "Sony City Osaki" building in Tokyo.
He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.
He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services -- not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.
At the World Architecture Festival, Nikken Sekkei took home the sustainable building award for its evaporative cooling bioskin building in Tokyo, and science fans successfully purchased Nikola Tesla's old Long Island workshop to turn it into a museum.
Inside a nondescript apartment building on a Tokyo waterfront, Fumiaki Sagara spends his days sitting in front of a bank of eight computer screens trading stocks.
We also spotted a wedge-shaped building at the Tokyo Institute of Technology that is completely covered in 4, 500 solar panels, which enables it to use half of the energy of a similarly-sized building.
Among the tens of thousands of protesters who gathered in Tokyo, some headed to the parliament building in Nagatacho to form a human chain around it in the early evening.
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As well as its US regional headquarters, Sony has also indicated its willingness to sell the building housing its television business in Tokyo.
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The headquarters, recently relocated to a prime building in the heart of Otemachi (Tokyo's Wall Street), contrasts with the usual Japanese corporate scene.
The bright yellow dome of the steel containment vessel at Unit 4, Fukushima Daiishi nuclear power plant (FDI) is clearly visible amid the pulverized remains of the building in a new video released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
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And Japan, the nation that unveiled the first high-speed rail system, is already at work building the next: a line that will connect Tokyo with Osaka at speeds of over 300 miles per hour.
Like the constant construction in Beijing and Shanghai, Tokyo was on a fast-forward spree of tear-downs and building, clearing the flimsy structures put up hastily after clearing the firebombing rubble.
It was designed by Junzo Yoshimura, a pupil of Antonin Raymond, who worked on the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and with Frank Lloyd Wright on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
Sony sold its U.S. headquarters building on New York's Madison Avenue in January, as well as other buildings in Tokyo.
It's part of the standard approach of Mori Building, Japan's biggest closely held developer, which has built 23 residential complexes in central Tokyo.
The Spiral building was financed by Wacoal, a staid old Kyoto lingerie maker that also raised eyebrows with its Tokyo branch office, on prime land near the Imperial Palace.
The building offers nearly 10-foot ceilings, an in-house spa and views of the brightly lit Tokyo Tower.
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