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Tokio Iwata
Tokio may refer to: * , the capital of Japan, used primarily in non-English-speaking countries may also refer to: Music * Tokio (band), a Japanese pop/rock band ** ''Tokio'' (album), their debut album * Tokio Hotel, a German rock band * Tokio, a Japanese singer Kenji Sawada's album and song Places * Tokio, North Dakota, a community in the United States * Tokio, Texas, a community in the United States * Tokio, Washington, a ghost town Companies and other organizations * Tokio Marine Nichido, a Japanese insurance company * Tokio Millennium Re Ltd., a reinsurance company Other uses * Tokio (given name), a masculine Japanese given name * 498 Tokio, a minor planet * ''Tokio'', a 1986 video game originally released as ''Scramble Formation'' * ''City of Tokio'', an iron steamship built in 1874 in the USA * ''Tokio'' (yacht) * ''Tokio Express'', a container ship that caused the great Lego spill of 1997 * Tokio (software) Tokio is a software library for the Rust programmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokio Millennium Re Ltd
Tokio Millennium Re Ltd. (abbreviated as TMR) is a reinsurance company headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda with branches in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, Zurich, Switzerland and Sydney, Australia. The lines of business written include property catastrophe, workers compensation and terrorism. TMR was established in Bermuda in 2000 as a subsidiary of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. and is licensed as a class 3B insurance company in Bermuda. TMR is currently rated AA− (Very Strong) by Standard & Poor's and A++ (Superior) by A. M. Best. Company history First announcements about the establishment of TMR with an initial capital of US$125 million in Bermuda were made in 2000. TMR was expected to start its operation beginning of April 2000 with Shin-ichiro Okada named as CEO. The parent company initially announced that TMR's primary mission was not to earn a profit through assumed reinsurance but to use reinsurance as a tool to make effective use of its capital. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokio Express
''Tokio Express'' was a German-registered container ship built by Blohm + Voss in Hamburg in 1973 for Hapag-Lloyd. She formed part of the early generation of large-capacity container vessels developed during the expansion of global trade in the 1970s. Originally one of the Hamburg Express-class ships, ''Tokio Express'' served under various names and owners before being decommissioned in 2000. Design and construction ''Tokio Express'' was the third in a series of four Trio-class container ships commissioned by Hapag-Lloyd. Designed for global trade, the vessels had a capacity of around 3,000 TEU, which was significant for the time. Built with twin-screw propulsion originally, all ships in the class underwent conversion in the 1980s to single-screw propulsion, retaining one turbine for improved fuel efficiency. Operational history The vessel entered service in April 1973 under Hapag-Lloyd and remained with the company for over a decade. In 1984, she was renamed ''Scandutch Edo'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokio (yacht)
''Tokio'' is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. She finished fifth in the W60 class of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Chris Dickson. References Volvo Ocean Race yachts Sailing yachts of Japan Volvo Ocean 60 yachts 1990s sailing yachts Sailboat type designs by Bruce Farr {{ship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Tokio
SS ''City of Tokio'' (sometimes spelled ''City of Tokyo'') was an iron steamship built in 1874 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. ''City of Tokio'' and her sister ship ''City of Peking'' were at the time of construction the largest vessels ever built in the United States, and the second largest in the world behind the United Kingdom, British leviathan . Like ''Great Eastern'', construction of the two Pacific Mail ships was to be plagued with financial difficulties, which threatened to bankrupt the shipbuilder. Unlike ''Great Eastern'', however, which was a commercial failure, ''City of Tokio'' was to enjoy a successful commercial career until being wrecked at the entrance of Tokyo Bay in 1885. ''City of Tokio'' holds the distinction of being the first ship to bring members of the ''Issei'', or first-generation Japanese people, Japanese migrants, to the United States. Construction ''City of Tokio'' and ''City of Pekin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scramble Formation
is a vertically scrolling shooter released by Taito in Japanese arcades in 1986. It was published by Romstar in North America as ''Tokio''. Gameplay In the game, the player controls a red propeller-driven airplane, flying over the city of Tokyo. They are able to shoot and capture other red, smaller planes, which then will follow the player in formation. The player can choose between 3 formations: the first is able to shoot both air-to-air and air-to-ground projectiles, the second only air-to-air (but on a larger area), the third only air-to-ground (but on a larger area as well). During gameplay, the player should react accordingly to the threats and quickly decide which one of the 3 formation types is more adequate at one given moment. The game is divided in areas, depicting key places in Tokyo, such as Shinjuku, Akasaka, and Ginza. There are no clearly defined "levels", but at some points the player is faced by a giant mothership, which can be shot down by hitting its engines. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
498 Tokio
498 Tokio (1902 KU) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 2 December 1902 by Auguste Charlois at the Nice Observatory. Attribution to Astronomer Shin Hirayama of the Azabu Observatory, Tokyo, Japan for the 1900 discovery and naming of Tokio as cited in the 1947 Monthly Newsletter of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol 107, page 45. References Attribution to Astronomer Shin Hirayama of the Azabu Observatory, Tokyo, Japan for the 1900 discovery and naming of Tokio as cited in the 1947 Monthly Newsletter of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol 107, page 45. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/MNRAS/0107//0000045.000.html External links * * Background asteroids Tokio Tokio Tokio Tokio may refer to: * , the capital of Japan, used primarily in non-English-speaking countries may also refer to: Music * Tokio (band), a Japanese pop/rock band ** ''Tokio'' (album), their debut album * Tokio Hotel, a German rock band * Tok ... M-type asteroids (Tholen) 190212 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokio (given Name)
Tokio is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Tokio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: *時雄, "hour, masculine" *時男, "hour, man" *時夫, "hour, husband" *刻雄, "engrave, masculine" *刻男, "engrave, man" *刻夫, "engrave, husband" *晨雄, "morning, masculine" *期雄, "period, masculine" *登喜夫, "climb up, rejoice, husband" *登紀夫, "climb up, chronicle, husband" The name can also be written in hiragana ときお or katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ... トキオ. Notable people with the name *, Japanese hurdler *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese physicist *, Japanese table tennis player {{giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokio Marine Nichido
, commonly called Tokio Marine Nichido, is a property/casualty insurance subsidiary of Tokio Marine Holdings, the largest non-mutual private insurance group in Japan. Tokio Marine Holdings was formerly known as Millea Group, which underwent a name change in July 2008. Its headquarters are in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.insurance companies in pre-war Japan. It belonged to the old Yasuda zaibatsu. * February 1898 - Tokyo Article Fire Insurance (東京物品火災保険) established. * November 1911 - Toho Fire Insurance (東邦火災保険) established. * January 1914 - Tokyo Article Fire Insurance change the trade name to the Japan Personal Property fire insurance (日本動産火災保険). * August 1944 - Japan Personal Property fire insurance acquires Toho Fire Insurance. * December 1946 - Change of trade name to Nichido Fire & Marine Insurance. Merger On 1 November 2004, Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance and Nichido Fire and Marine Insurance merged to create Tokio Marine & Nich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokio (band)
Tokio is a Japanese rock/ pop band formed by Johnny & Associates that debuted in 1994. It is made up of three men who were signed with Sony Music Entertainment from 1994 to 2001, with Universal Music Japan from 2001 to 2008, and are now signed under J Storm, a label owned by Johnny & Associates. In addition to their activities as a band, the members of Tokio also act in dozens of dramas and host variety programmes, both as a group and individually. The group's name "Tokio" was the old English romanization for Japan's capital Tokyo, and remains the current transliteration in several European languages. Unlike most other bands under Johnny & Associates, where all of the band members are usually only vocalists, Tokio only has one main vocalist, a drummer, a guitarist, a bassist, and a keyboardist. Bassist Tatsuya Yamaguchi was kicked out of the band in May 2018 following a sexual harassment scandal involving a high-school-aged girl. Subsequently, less choreography is used in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokio, Washington
Tokio is a rural location and former rural community in Adams County, in the Palouse region of eastern Washington. It is located along Interstate 90 northeast of Ritzville.Japanese Vignettes p. 16 (1939) ("There is a Tokio in the northeastern corner of Adams County in eastern Washington") History In 1888, railway officials named the railroad stop at this location "Iona." It was changed to Tracy in 1905, and then Tokio in 1906.Was ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokio, Texas
Tokio is an unincorporated community in Terry County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 24 in 2000. The town was named after the capital city of Japan with the same name. The town of Tokio was founded in 1908, and relocated a mile south to the current location in 1928 when U.S. Highway 380 was redirected. Although it reached a population of at least 125 residents in the 1940s, Tokio is now largely abandoned. A historical marker stands in front of the old Tokio School.- Another Texas community named Tokio (also called Wiggins) is located in McLennan County McLennan County is a County (United States), county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 260,579. Its county seat and largest city is Waco, Texas, Waco. The U.S. c ..., near West, Texas. References External links * Unincorporated communities in Terry County, Tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
