TokyoTomo Travel Guide

This coming Saturday, one of the World’s Top Fashion Festival, “Tokyo Girls Collection 2010″ (in Japanese 東京ガールズコレクション, also abbreviated as TGC) will kick off at Yokohama Arena, Yokohama City, showcasing the latest fashions for Spring/Summer 2010. A semi-annual fashion event launched in 2005, it showcases the seasons fashionable street-wear by domestic brands, and are modeled by celebrity-status models from various Japanese fashion magazines. The event is open not only to buyers and journalists, but also to the general public.

TGC has now become a major fashion event that has captured the imagination of stylish, fashion-conscious young women. The previous event, TGC Autumn/Winter 2009, attracted 23,100 visitors. TGC offers a unique blend of the latest fashion trends and live musical performances －performed on stage and displayed on screens, which generate significant media coverage and a tremendous amount of popular interest.

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The JAL Group announced today that on March 2, 2010, it will establish a Compliance Investigations Committee (the “Committee”) whose main objective is to examine past business practices of the JAL Group.

Committed to executing a fair and transparent restructuring under the Corporate Reorganization Proceedings, the JAL Group will commission the Committee to launch an investigation into past business management of the JAL Group to determine if there were any issues about compliancy and to identify problems in that aspect. Key findings will then be reported to the appointed Trustees.

The Committee is an independent investigative organization formed by third-party members such as Saiguchi Chiharu – a lawyer belonging to the Tokyo Bar Association and a current member of the Supreme Court of Japan, and Kainaka Tatsuo – a former member of the Supreme Court of Japan, who will be able to provide their professional opinion from a neutral stance in order to impartially and effectively assess the JAL Group.

Starting March 2, 2010, the Committee will commence its research into the Group’s history.

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Japan Airlines (JAL) and Dubai-based Emirates Airline (EK) reached an agreement to expand their code share partnership between Japan and Dubai. JAL will start placing its “JL” flight indicator on EK-operated flights between Tokyo (Narita) and Dubai from March 28, 2010, when EK will launch the new direct service to Narita, flying five times a week.

Both airlines have been offering code share services on the Osaka (Kansai) = Dubai route since 2002. By further strengthening their partnership through the new connection between Tokyo and Dubai, both airlines can build a more extensive network to increase customer convenience and better facilitate business and tourist travel to the Middle East from Japan.

In addition to the code share flights, JAL and EK also linked their frequent flyer programs (FFP) in October 2002, enabling members of the JAL Mileage Bank (JMB) and Emirates’ Skywards FFP to earn miles on each other’s flights.

Reservations and ticket purchase for the new code share service will commence on February 25.

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