North Korea, which says it will conduct a peaceful launch of a communications satellite, has threatened to respond with what it called "deadly blows" against Japanese cities if Tokyo tries to shoot down its satellite.
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Taito ward, where Naoharu Yamashina founded his toy business and where it remains to this day is to Tokyowhat Whitechapel is to London or the Bronx to New York.
She pulled out her iPhone and called Washington and Tokyo, reported what she had gleaned of Germany's position and took suggestions from her G7 counterparts back to the meeting.
By comparison what happened in the early 1990s in the Tokyo real estate market (and what might happen in the Shanghai real estate market in the next few years) will rightly be seen as meaningless noise.