Kasumigaseki

While the fund's financial logic may make sense in the City of London, that probably won't fly in the bureaucratic nerve center of Kasumigaseki because changes at Japan Tobacco would hurt Ministry of Finance's interests.

TCI Takes on Japan's Heavyweight James Simms 2011

Abandoning nuclear power would also increase Japan's dependence on carbon dioxide-producing fossil fuels with volatile prices, according to the conventional wisdom in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo's bureaucratic hub.

In Japan, Provocative Case for Staying Nuclear Chester Dawson 2011

While the fund's financial logic may make sense in the City of London, that probably won't fly in the bureaucratic nerve center of Kasumigaseki because changes at Japan Tobacco would hurt Ministry of Finance's interests.

TCI Takes on Japan's Heavyweight James Simms 2011

"Politicians have been keen to cut back big government before," said one midranking bureaucrat in Kasumigaseki, the nexus of cabinet ministries in Tokyo.

Japan's Next Leader Targets Bureaucracy 2009

Five chemical devices disguised as lunch boxes and soft-drink containers had spewed poison through subway cars converging on Tokyo's government hub, Kasumigaseki, during the morning rush.

A Cloud Of Terror--And Suspicion 2008

They hit five locations in cars on three subway lines scheduled to converge from the north and west on Kasumigaseki between 8: 09 and 8: 13 a.m. - just in time for the 8: 30 start of the workday.

A Cloud Of Terror--And Suspicion 2008

"Bureaucrats are boasting Kasumigaseki is a growing industry," says Heizo Takenaka,

Japan Debate: Security or Stimulus 2008

Nestled in Kasumigaseki, Japan's Capitol Hill, they've quietly mapped the direction of the country, helped the politicians execute their plans -- and sabotaged them at times, too.

Tokyo's Own White House 2007

Of the 12 people who died, two were station workers at Kasumigaseki — Kazumasa Takahashi, 50, and Tsuneo Hishinuma, 51.

Subway workers offer prayers on sarin attack anniversary 2003

From its headquarters in a gray-brown 1950s office block in the Kasumigaseki section in Tokyo, not far from the walls of the Imperial Palace, MITI coordinated the entire system of industrial policy.

The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998