The one of this country's most prominent race is the Grade 1 Japan Cup, a 2, 400 m ( about 1½ mile ) invitational turf race run every November at Tokyo Racecourse for a purse of ¥ 476 million ( about US $ 5. 6 million ), currently the richest turf race in the world.

* November – inaugural running of the Japan Cup, the most prestigious horse race in Japan, at Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu, Tokyo.

* Tokyo Racecourse hosts numerous G1 ( Grade 1 ) races.

He was also a partner with Wayne Gretzky in the colt Golden Pheasant who won races in Europe as well as the Arlington Million in the U. S. and the Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse.

Although the line is short, it provides access to the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the Tokyo Racecourse, Ajinomoto Stadium, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department police school, many cemeteries ( including Tokyo's largest, Tama Cemetery

It is run over a distance of 2, 000 meters ( about 10 furlongs ) at Ōi Racecourse in the Shinagawa, Tokyo in the end of the year.

** Tokyo Racecourse ( Fuchu, Tokyo )

Hanshin Racecourse has hosted the Japan Cup Dirt since 2008 ; races prior to that was held in Tokyo Racecourse.

Main grandstand at the Tokyo Racecourse

Tokyo Racecourse hosts numerous G1 ( Grade 1 ) races, including the Japan Cup, Tokyo Yushun ( the Japanese Derby ) and the Yasuda Kinen, a part of the Asian Mile Challenge.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

* 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.

* 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.

* 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.

, also known as, is a district of Tokyo, Japan.

The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.

Japan BCG Laboratory markets its vaccine, based on the Tokyo 172 substrain of Pasteur BCG, in 50 countries worldwide.

International Federation of Cheerleading ( IFC ): Established on the 5th July 1998, the International Federation of Cheerleading ( IFC ) is a non-profit federation based in Tokyo, Japan and is the world governing body of cheerleading.

The IFC is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 1998 until June 19, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial content.

Only little or incomplete case volumes can be found ; for example, the only copy of Di Gong An was found at a second-hand book store in Tokyo, Japan.

* 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).

The emperor moved his residence to Tokyo, making the city the formal capital of Japan:

Tokyo: Asia Society of Japan.

Tokyo: Asia Society of Japan.

In a ranking of the best films produced in Asia by Sight & Sound, Japan made up eight of the top twelve, with Tokyo Story ranked number one.

Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of missionaries Sarah ( née Swords ) and Paul Franklin Schaffner, and was raised in Japan.

A pachinko parlor in Tokyo, Japan

Megalon is finally released to the surface while Jet Jaguar is put under the control of the Seatopians and is used to guide Megalon to attack Tokyo with the Japan Self Defense Forces failing to defeat the monster.

* GMO CLOUD K. K., a company based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

If Mrs. Wright doesn't accept the terms in the morning, I'll go either to Tokyo or to Holland, to do what I can.

The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.

Planes made her feel faint, and in Tokyo, where she had gone that summer, she had been given raw fish for breakfast and so she had come straight home.

Maneuvers over, the 7th returned to garrison duty in Tokyo, Captain Chandler still with them.

In the evening the former Oregon State science teachers met for dinner at the New Tokyo Restaurant where I had my first raw fish and found it good.

They were even better than those of Tokyo -- more spectacular and more imaginative.

On arriving in Tokyo later we were met by Masu who took us immediately to her university, the Japanese Women's University.

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

After a fine luncheon in the cafeteria, the kitchen of which Masu had planned, Mr. Washizu and I left to meet representatives of the USIS for a visit to the University of Tokyo.

`` But they shouldda brought in Tokyo, too '', added Old Scrapiron.

He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes, the biwa upon which he had been practicing and his image of Acala, and left to spend a week at home before leaving the country.

In Tokyo Richard took up a life similar to that which he had lived in New York, except that he had replaced his biwa with a friend.

He had nothing much to say to her but that he said anything seemed to please her and he accompanied her on some of her unusually searching tours of Tokyo.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

Sam, I thought you knew everything about Tokyo.

The cold lingered, making sleep difficult that night, and he remained in bed still the next morning, now unable to keep from thinking about the inexplicable sight of burning metal, the wretched sound, the unbearable feeling of having been to a remote Tokyo temple at some earlier time in his life.

Now Saya is working at the Science University of Tokyo as a guide.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

Kurosawa was born on 23 March 1910 in Ōimachi in the Ōmori district of Tokyo.

In the aftermath of the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, which devastated Tokyo, Heigo took the 13-year-old Akira to view the devastation.

In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.