Tokyo Fact Sheet

Database: World's Busiest Airports

Record Name Year City Country Region State Province Source Airport Passenger Traffic Rank
TOKYO, JP (HND) Airport Traffic 2006 Tokyo Japan Asia Airport Council International TOKYO, JP (HND) 65 810 672 4
TOKYO, JP (NRT) Airport Traffic 2006 Tokyo Japan Asia Airport Council International TOKYO, JP (NRT) 34 975 225 23

Database: Historical Largest Cities of the World

Record Name City Country Year Become #1 Population Note Source
Tokyo (1965) Tokyo Japan 1965 First over 20 million Answers.com Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census by Tertius Chandler. 1987, St. David's University Press

Database: List of largest world corporations by market capitalization

Record Name Company Country Industry Market Value (March 2007, USD million) Revenue (2006 USD billion) Source
Market capitalization for The Tokyo Electric Power Company The Tokyo Electric Power Company Japan Public utilities 46,175 44.7 (~) Wikipedia - Financial Times

Database: Average Real Estate Rental Cost for Selected Cities

Record Name City Country Region Total Cost (US$ per sq. m) Rent (Total Cost (US$ per sq. m)) Other Expenses (US$ per sq. m) Source
Average Real Estate Rental Cost for Tokyo Tokyo Japan Asia 1,469 1,129 340 Cushman & Wakefield

Database: World's Tallest Buildings

Record Name City Country Height in Meters Height in Feet
Tokyo Tower Tokyo Japan 333 1093
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building Tokyo Japan 243 797
Shinjuku Park Tower Tokyo Japan 235 771
Sunshine 60 Tokyo Japan 226 741
NEC Supertower Tokyo Japan 180 590

Database: Number of Airports in World Countries

Record Name Country Year Airports Source
Number of Airports in World World metric tons total airports - 49,024 top ten by passengers: Atlanta - 84,846,639; Chicago - 77,028,134; London - 67,530,197; Tokyo - 65,810,672; Los Angeles - 61,041,066; Dallas/Fort Worth - 60,226,138; Paris - 56,849,567; Frankfurt - 52,810,683; Beijing - 48,654,770; Denver - 47,325,016 top ten by cargo CIA World Fact Book

Database: List of longest suspension bridge spans

Record Name Year Constructed Country Bridge Location Length (Meters) Length (Feet) Note Source
Rainbow Bridge 1993 Japan Rainbow Bridge Tokyo, Japan 570 1,870 Wikipedia

Database: Worlds Largest Economic Entities (2000)

Record Name Country or Corporation Year GDP / sales ($million) Source
GDP Sales for Tokyo Electric Power (2000) Tokyo Electric Power 2000 45,727.70 Institute for Policy Studies (Report on the Top 200 corporations)

Database: World Wide Shortwave Radio Stations

Record Name Language City Country Media kHz
Nihon Shortwave Broadcasting Company JAPANESE Tokyo Japan Radio 6055
Radio Japan Tokyo Japan Radio 11,815
Radio Japan Tokyo Japan Radio 15,310

Database: Top Supercomputers of the world

Record Name Year Country Manufacturer Source Site Processors Rmax (GFlops) Rpeak (GFlops)
TSUBAME Grid Cluster - Sun Fire x4600 Cluster, Opteron 2.4/2.6 GHz and ClearSpeed Accelerator, Infiniband 2006 Japan NEC/Sun Top 500 Supercomputer Sites (June 2007) GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology 11088 48880 78796.8
SR11000-J2 2007 Japan HITACHI Top 500 Supercomputer Sites (June 2007) University of Tokyo 128 15811 18841.6

Database: List of aircraft engine manufacturers

Record Name Industry Country Manufacturer Source
Tokyo Gasu Denki (Japan ) Aviation Japan Tokyo Gasu Denki Wikipedia

Database: Country Population (2002)

Record Name Country Capital City Year Land Area Population Source
Japan Japan Tokyo 2002 377,835 126,974,628 The World Factbook 2002, CIA

Database: World's Largest Newspapers by Circulation

Record Name Country Language Region Source Newspaper Rank Circulation (thousands)
Tokyo Sports Newspaper Circulation Japan JAPANESE Asia World Press Trends, the World Association of Newspapers, 2005 Tokyo Sports 10 2,425

Database: Capital Cities of World Countries

Record Name Country Capital City Country Long Name FIPS code
(no long-form name) (Japan) Japan Tokyo (no long-form name) JA

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