Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
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Events In Tokyo Jul 4, 2013
'The Deep' to feature ocean's oddities
by Magdalena Osumi
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 ...
Events In Tokyo Jun 28, 2013
Festival flea markets are a treat
by Natasha Vik
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 ...
Events In Tokyo Jun 28, 2013
Car friendly Tokyo stays, and plenty of international cuisine treats
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 ...
Events In Tokyo Jun 21, 2013
Irish poet to be focus of Yeats Day at Waseda
by Edan Corkill
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 ...
Events In Tokyo Jun 21, 2013
Turn the lights out for a piece of 'me' time
by Natasha Vik
“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 ...
Events In Tokyo Jun 14, 2013
Christmas in June for Tokyo
by Natasha Vik
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 ...
Events In Tokyo Jun 7, 2013
Ginza galleries to cater to late-night art fans
by Edan Corkill
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 ...
Events In Tokyo Jun 7, 2013
Sanno Festival features kendo, folk dancing
by Masaaki Kameda
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 ...
Events In Tokyo May 24, 2013
Electric fireflies to light up river
by Tomoko Otake
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 ...
Events In Tokyo May 24, 2013
Asian Queer Film Festival to feature works from South Korea, Cambodia
by Delilah Romasanta
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 ...
Events In Tokyo May 17, 2013
Join the crowd at Sanja festival
by Edan Corkill
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 ...
Events In Tokyo May 3, 2013
End Golden Week with Cinco de Mayo party
by Delilah Romasanta
The timing of this year’s Golden Week holidays doesn’t allow many people to travel far. You can, however, get a taste of Latin America if you head down to Yoyogi Park. The park will host a large-scale festival for this year’s Cinco de Mayo ...