A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this year. ...
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 ...
According to most business media, now is the time to act if you are thinking about buying a home. Though the Liberal Democratic Party has yet to confirm that it will go ahead with the consumption tax increases the Democratic Party of Japan passed ...
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, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Kamakura has no shortage of good soba restaurants. Like Matsubara-an, many occupy freestanding traditional buildings. Here are three more worth tracking down on a visit to the ancient capital. Issa-an It’s not hard to find Issa-an. Located close to the entrance to Kamakura’s main ...
It’s that season once again, when we pause, look back and savor some of the outstanding meals we have enjoyed over the past year. High on that list has to be going back to eat at Ryugin last month. This brilliant, high-end Japanese restaurant ...
The lump of dough in the large mixing bowl in front of me doesn’t look like much, but soba-making instructor Hatuko Tokutake isn’t concerned. “You have to knead it at least 150 times,” she coaches me, confident in her 10 years experience as a ...
What is it about handmade noodles, young chefs, minuscule restaurants and hard-to-find locations? Here’s another highly idiosyncratic craft-noodle shop that opened recently, which is every bit as hard to find as Nemuri-an. Asahi lies on a sleepy side street just off Inokashira-dori in a ...
Japan’s infatuation with ramen can seem bewildering to the uninitiated. When you see lines around the block outside nondescript noodle joints in remote locations, with waits of up to an hour, it’s hard not think the obsession is verging on the pathological. At least ...
