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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Getting away from it all on Aguni

Robert Burns, the hard-living 18th-century Scottish poet, lyricist and culture hero who died aged 37 in 1796, is one of the most oft-quoted writers with roots in the British Isles.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

A postcard from Kauai's 'South Pacific' paradise

Those who know me know I tend to pick up and go quite easily, as the travel bug has never loosened its hold. This time, I've made the ultimate getaway to paradise to escape my regular routine of work and college. I'm talking about Kauai, Hawaii.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Matsumoto in May means 'crafts '

England gave the world the Windsor chair, but it was the city of Matsumoto in central Nagano Prefecture that reinvented it for Japan.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Moving and shaking on Sakurajima

It looked like the kind of comfortably oily rag that makes a mechanic's job easier — the sort you find scrunched up in the corner of a garage soaked with tales of its long career, how it protected all manner of tools from rust, greased jamming gears ... and helped fix Mrs. Jones' "unfixable" carburettor back in '83.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Yonaguni: Japan's most westerly isle

A colossal, dark-skinned man rides along the sidewalk on a motorbike: no helmet, two small children aboard — a vision of life in the laconic Tropics. There are times here too on Yonaguni, the westernmost land mass in Okinawa Prefecture, when you see a curvaceous island woman in a vivid, flower-patterned dress, and you think of Paul Gauguin and the Tahitian women he painted.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Winter kept us warm in Kamikochi's silence

Sitting in sublime obscurity in a raised valley one hour by bus from Bitchu-Takahashi, Fukiya Furusato Mura in Okayama Prefecture must surely be one of Japan's most under-appreciated rural destinations. Mention the name even to Japanese travelers and you are likely to draw blank expressions.

BACKSTREET STORIES

Strolling off the beaten paths in Tokyo

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Foxtrotting around Asukayama

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Plum nuts about Ikegami

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Venturing into the zone on Showajima

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

Fish tales of Tsukiji

HOTELS & RESTAURANTS

Weekly guide to specials at Japanese hotels and restaurants

Friday, May 11, 2012

Sumida ferry accommodation plan

Friday, May 4, 2012

Eclipse over easy, a star-studded anniversary, and bubbly pairings

Friday, April 27, 2012

Mother's Day lunch with carnations

Friday, April 20, 2012

World Gardening Fair at Hotel Okura

ON THE ROAD

Weekly reports and analysis on the automotive industry in Japan, plus reviews of new cars and motorcycles.

Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008

The auto trade gears up for a revolution

Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008

Nostalgia drives Japanese classic car scene

Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008

What's behind all the funny car names?

Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008

Training regime for keirin draws blood, sweat, sometimes tears

NATURE TRAVEL

Traveling the world with nature in mind

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Namibia's no man's land

Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008

Inside Namibia's forbidden zone

Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008

The other wild side of Zimbabwe

THEN AND NOW

Archive of Sumiko Enbutsu's series in which she explores Tokyo today and its Edo Era origins.







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