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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
In the early 1960s, Japan’s television industry harbored an experimental spirit that was free from restrictive institutional ideology. It was a time of hope according to Inuhiko Yomota, professor of film history at Meiji Gakuin University. An academic screening in Tokyo will offer a ...
While some companies have started to offer trips to the Moon, there is still more to be discovered hidden on our own planet. The depths of the ocean still hold a trove of mysteries. At a distance between 200 meters and 10,000 meters from ...
The Japanese have a knack for putting hard-to-describe feelings into words. A good example is the word “mottainai,” used when expressing regret over wasting a resource or opportunity. It’s an expression that’s getting good use recently, as society makes a push to be more ...
Car-friendly Tokyo accommodation The Hyatt Regency Tokyo is offering a special accommodation plan called Summer Stay, through Sept. 30. The special plan allows hotel guests use of the parking lot, swimming pool and fitness gym without any additional charges. Ten percent discounts will also ...
One of the first attempts to combine the literary traditions of the English and Japanese languages occurred in 1916, when Irish poet William Butler Yeats tried his hand at a noh play. The result, “At the Hawk’s Well,” tells the story of a mythological ...
“Turn off the lights, and take it slow tonight”: If this reads like advice on how to pamper yourself at the end of a long work week, that isn’t entirely off the mark. The phrase is the tagline for Candle Night, which, while eco-friendly ...
Who hasn’t been caught in the Christmas-gift shopping rush, and found themselves wishing they could have had private access to Santa’s workshop instead? Substitute the North Pole for an increasingly warm Tokyo, and you might have the closest thing to a modern-day version: this ...
Businessmen and women will have an easier chance to peruse some of the best art galleries in Tokyo’s Ginza district this week, as 25 of the establishments extend their opening hours for an event dubbed “Garo no Yakai” (“Gallery Night Party”). Some of Ginza’s ...
Counted as one of the three biggest festivals in Edo, present-day Tokyo, the Sanno Festival kicks off its annual celebration Friday in the heart of the capital. The long-established festival at Hie Shrine in central Chiyoda Ward runs through June 17 featuring various traditional ...
The Tokyo Hotaru Festival is back for a second round. This participatory art installation involves 100,000 blue LED light bulbs that will be floated down Tokyo’s Sumida River. It’s sponsored by a consortium of parties including the Sumida and Taito ward offices, local tourism ...
The LGBT community in Tokyo is hard at work. Not even a month after the Rainbow Pride parade, the biennial Asian Queer Film Festival is set to grace the Cinemart Roppongi this weekend. Started in 2007, AQFF screens queer films from Asia, hoping to ...
The story goes that precisely 1,385 years ago, two brothers, Hinokuma Hamanari and Hinokuma Takenari, were fishing in Sumida River when they discovered in their nets an unlikely object: a statue of the Bodhisattva Kannon. Buddhism itself was still little known in Japan back ...