The death toll from a blizzard that hit Hokkaido and the Tohoku region over the weekend has risen to nine, local police said Monday. The latest fatality as of Monday was Kuniko Jingi, 76, who was found collapsed under the snow on a road ...
Sleeping in. Breakfast in bed. Sunny brunches. Strolls in the park. Laid-back afternoon tea. Cocktails at sunset. Decadent late nights. Saturday — the word brings to mind a flurry of images associated with the first day of the weekend and the chances are, they ...
For the past year, Tokyo sixth-grader Manami has had dinner at home an average of four times a week. The rest of the time she has had to make do with a juku-ben, a boxed dinner prepared by her mother and consumed between classes ...
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Cuba overpowers China, winning 12-0 and advancing to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
A young Japanese woman in colorful African clothes appeared on the stage at a small club in Tokyo’s central Roppongi district on April 25. She sat down on a low chair in front of an eight-stringed wooden instrument. “Good evening, everyone. I am Anyango!” ...
The Min-On Music Museum in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Chopin with an exhibit dedicated to the musician. The museum is displaying replicas of scores written by Chopin and portraits of the composer and people he ...
Mika Tsutsumi is a spirited journalist and writer whose work turns a spotlight on the widespread hardships and poverty caused by official policies and the behavior of businesses in the United States. Her best-selling book “Rupo Hinkon Taikoku Amerika” (“America, the Poverty Superpower”) exposed ...
It can be a bit embarrassing at a restaurant to say that you’d like to take your leftovers away with you. That’s probably why people the world over often ask for the food to be put in a “doggy bag,” whether or not they ...
When the documentary filmmaker Motoharu Iida was asked by an animal-loving elderly woman to make a film to save the lives of abandoned cats and dogs, he was not sure what he could do. But with a little research, Iida soon found that 353,098 ...
Takako Toda welcomed her lively, 7-year-old English pointer into her home in the city of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, when the puppy she named Woowo was just a month old. “It was our dream to have a big dog,” said Toda, 60, explaining that her ...
Japan’s pet boom over the last decade has brought considerable benefits to the nation’s economy. At the same time, however, it has led to problems involving both unscrupulous breeders and traders. While consumer sales in general have remained stagnant through Japan’s protracted economic downturn ...
Pet Haku 2009, an exposition to showcase cats and dogs as well as pet-related goods and services, was held in Tokyo’s Odaiba district in December and featured around 80 companies. Staff writer Eriko Arita was there with her camera, asking visitors how they met ...
The International Book Art Picnic will be held in Osaka until Jan. 31. According to event organizer NPO Osaka Arts-Aporia, book art is a concept that includes books with beautiful covers and artistic installations using books. Artists and curators will also give lectures on ...
“Every language is a cultural asset of humanity,” is how Tasaku Tsunoda expressed his motivation for costarting a project in 2002 to teach the extinct Warrongo language to the Aboriginal people of the Warrongo tribe of northeastern Australia. Although it is believed that there ...
