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.
You’re working late at the office and your boss has just decided to hold a meeting. Dinner, you decide, will have to wait — but what about the little ones left waiting for you at home? Pet Phone lets you feed your pet with ...
Self-professed “Miracle Man of the World” Masahiko Hirota sits me down on his massage table and quickly locates the knot just to the left of my right shoulder blade that has been bugging me for days. Closing my eyes, for an instant I am ...
Akira Kan wipes away the beads of sweat rapidly gathering on his forehead. The 15,000 yen that Pavel Matousek is asking for Juzam Djinn is beyond his budget. But the alternative — trade in his Mox Pearl and Island of Wak-Wak — seems like ...
SHIBUKAWA, Gunma Pref. — There are probably few foreign nationals in the country who have found themselves charged with running a traditional Japanese company. Darryl Shappard displays some of the food packaging products in which his company specializes. Probably fewer still attribute their rise ...
TOCHIGI — It might seem strange that a group of students at a rural Japanese high school would be concerned about the culinary habits of Zambia’s wildlife or the conditions of India’s walkways. But that kind of information comes in handy for the first- ...
UTSUNOMIYA, Tochigi Pref. — At the bottom of the steps leading out of JR Utsunomiya Station is a statue of Venus quite unlike any other. Standing about 1.5 meters tall, the stone statue is shaped like a half moon, the thin edge of the ...
Next time you feel like pulling your hair out over the bureaucratic pitfalls of overseas travel, spare a thought for Richard Pontzious. Richard Pontzious Once a year, the Hong Kong-based American arranges some 850 visas for over 100 young people from 11 Asian nations. ...
African folk songs, rap, J.S. Bach, Jimmy Hendrix and tap-dancing might sound like an unlikely mix for a night of jazz. Through the collective lungs of Jazzchor Freiburg, however, anything’s possible. Jazzchor Freiburg The 25-member jazz choir’s motto could easily be “If it can ...
It’s not entirely clear which of his visits to Japan Jim Whittaker remembers the most. The latest, earlier this year, was to promote his autobiography and attend the opening of the first overseas branch of Recreation Equipment Inc., the outdoor goods cooperative he helped ...
A Japanese researcher who conducted a project in Okinawa to explore the effectiveness of growing reefs via mineral accretion in 1989, says he remains unsure of the effectiveness of the technique. “From a scientific, data-collecting viewpoint, the results were good,” said Dr. Kimiaki Kudo, ...
