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.
American poet Arthur Binard is alert to the world around him. His interests range from trees and insects to bicycles, kotatsu (heater tables) and nuclear energy. Binard writes poems in Japanese — which is not his mother tongue — as well as in English, ...
“Let me read you a picture book in Dutch,” said Rudie Filon, the Dutch counselor of the Delegation of the European Union to Japan as he began reading the popular picture book “Jip and Janneke” in Dutch. Children and their parents’ eyes lit up, ...
Alessandro Gerevini, an Italian writer and translator who has lived and worked in Japan for 16 years, believes that Japanese and Italian cultures have a lot in common. Gerevini notes that, for example, the idea of family and the unique culture of food are ...
Right after the earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 11, the small Pacific coastal town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, was almost wiped out by the massive tsunami. Hundreds of its residents were killed, while many of the survivors lost family members, their houses and ...
People often get to know about another country’s culture through its cuisine -where the ingredients come from, how the dishes are cooked and how the dishes originated. During the Golden Week holiday, that’s exactly how nearly 50 people in Tokyo got to know more ...
“People around us tell us that we’re like meoto-manzai (stand up comedians). We’re always surrounded by laughter,” says Atsuko Nonogaki Planeta, 43. “We’re talking all the time. I never get bored,” Paolo Planeta, from Genoa, Italy, adds. Paolo, 37, and Atsuko met in Tokyo ...
Japanese companies need to improve their communication with the foreign media when attempting to expand their presence in overseas markets, says a Tokyo-based expert in corporate public relations. The overseas media coverage of Japan’s nuclear crisis — sometimes criticized here as exaggerated or sensational ...
The 52nd floor of the Roppongi Hills complex in downtown Tokyo was filled Saturday night with a high-spirited, energetic atmosphere as people gathered for a charity event to raise donations for survivors of the quake- and tsunami-ravaged Tohoku region. More than 200 people gathered ...
When the earthquake and tsunami hit the northeast on March 11, Robert Campbell, an Irish-American scholar of Edo Period to early Meiji Era literature, was in Tokyo. Not having ever been to the most severely affected areas of Tohoku, he said the whole picture ...
On the day after the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a group of students from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies gathered a group of volunteers to set up a multilingual website for foreign residents seeking information about the disaster. The site, which can ...
