Tishman Speyer, which lead the takeover, also owns Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler building in New York City.

Maybe a primitive American fear of being the eternal rube in a slickster's world underlies the sulks about Japan owning Rockefeller Center.

The company that owns Rockefeller Center lacks the cash to pay the mortgage and may be close to defaulting.

In 1989 it fully bought out Rockefeller Group in New York, the real estate company that then fully owned Rockefeller Center.

Mitsubishi's 80 percent stake gives it 23 percent of the real estate investment trust that owns Rockefeller Center, the landmark Manhattan office complex.

He was also a member of a syndicate with Rockefeller that for a time in the 1980s owned Rockefeller Center.

The company owns Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.

The principal buyer is Tishman Speyer Properties, which also owns the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center.

Tishman-Speyer partially owns and manages Rockefeller Center and won the bidding to control the Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan.

With bankruptcy, the real estate investment trust owns Rockefeller Center now.