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Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity.
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
“Hafu,” the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese, takes on a more intricate meaning through the unfolding of mixed-race Japanese lives in the documentary “Hafu.” Those starring in the film and those behind the project identify themselves as a newly emerging community. With ...
During the three weeks between the Earth Day Festival in Tokyo on April 17 and Waorld Fair Trade Day last Saturday, cyclists and supporters of fair trade were busy threading their way through the dense Tokyo traffic with the help of a map that ...
Last Friday, 15 bicycle riders lined up on the campus of Meisei Gakuen School for the Deaf in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, to kick off their second fundraising charity ride to help the school purchase playground equipment. Organized by Give a Dream a Chance, known ...
While the weather had yet to recover completely from the record-low temperatures of earlier this month, hundreds of visitors braved the cold to attend the Cherry Blossom Fair at the Tokyo International School in Mita, Minato Ward, on Saturday. Elementary school students with face ...
Irish culture enthusiasts in Tokyo celebrated St. Patrick’s Day in the friendly confines of an Irish-style pub Sunday, enjoying traditional performances and Guinness beer at an annual gathering of the Japan-Ireland Society. Irish flags and green decorations were ubiquitous at the Roundstone, an Irish ...
Combining booze and a quiz at a pub is a popular British pastime. That plus charity is Oxfam Japan IVG’s monthly pub quiz. The Japan unit of the international aid organization holds the event at a Tokyo pub, charging participants ¥1,000. The proceeds go ...
Hip hop, pop, ballade and minyo Japanese folk formed the musical backdrops in the Rock Challenge Japan 2009 last week, a dance performance by and for high schoolers. Soundtracks ranged from Pitbull’s “I Know You Want Me” and other contemporary dance music to soran ...
Thousands of people sampled the tastes of Africa and the Middle East during the 15th charity bazaar held in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district on Oct. 27 by Nihon Chukinto Africa Fujinkai. With the participation of people from 28 African and Middle East embassies and a ...
Thousands of people sampled the tastes of Africa and the Middle East during the 15th charity bazaar held in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district on Oct. 27 by Nihon Chukinto Africa Fujinkai. With the participation of people from 28 African and Middle East embassies and a ...
Tokyo’s Harajuku-Omotesando district was alive with Halloween festivities on Sunday as a throng of costumed kids and parents marched through the neighborhood for the Harajuku Omotesando Halloween Pumpkin Parade. Although iffy weather caused some to worry that the Halloween event, in its 27th year, ...
Tokyo’s Harajuku-Omotesando district was alive with Halloween festivities on Sunday as a throng of costumed kids and parents marched through the neighborhood for the Harajuku Omotesando Halloween Pumpkin Parade. Although iffy weather caused some to worry that the Halloween event, in its 27th year, ...
Idle dog-walkers and shoppers around JR Makuhari Station were met with an unusual spectacle one sunny Sunday morning earlier this month. A large-framed blond man in a kilt sauntered past the shopping complex; then a group of Japanese women adorned in checked sashes came ...