Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
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 ...
Flying into Kagoshima from Tokyo across the volcanic landscape of Kirishima and Ebino Kogen, I feel as if I’m arriving in another country. The air is moist and warm, the light sharper, the sky bluer and the foliage intensely green, sprawling exuberantly over the ...
Thanksgiving dinner at Chinzan-so The Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so in Tokyo will offer a special Thanksgiving dinner at its casual restaurant Seasons Bistro, from Nov. 16 to 22. The restaurant will offer a variety of dishes that are traditionally offered on the ...
I have spent the last four hours perspiring under the summer sun, moving slowly and photographing wildflowers. Having hiked the circuitous, twin-peaked route around the caldera of constantly active 1,041-meter Mount Tarumae, I then loped up and down a small peak known only as ...
Brussels beer bar opens in Otemachi On Nov. 1, a new branch of the Belgian beer bar Brussels opened in the Otemachi business district in Tokyo. Located on the first floor of a building directly connected to Otemachi Station, the bar is easy to ...
Shangri-La Christmas cake orders The Shangri-La Hotel in Tokyo will start accepting preorders for Christmas cakes from Nov. 1. Taking great care over the ingredients and decorations, the hotel’s executive pastry chef, Naoya Okamura, has prepared three kinds of special cake for this holiday ...
KLM to fly to Fukuoka KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will begin operating a scheduled service to Fukuoka next April 3. Fukuoka is the third destination for KLM in Japan, after Tokyo and Osaka. With the new route KLM will offer a total of 21 ...
I had just been re-reading Paul Theroux’s African travelogue, “Dark Star Safari,” and was up to a part where he explains that he never books rooms on his journeys, just turns up and leaves the rest to chance. I thought I would test the ...
Grand Hyatt Fukuoka’s new chef Since September, Ernst Jaeck has been the new executive chef at the Grand Hyatt Fukuoka in Canal City Hakata. Jaeck has an extensive professional background. He started his career in his native Germany and has worked for hotels such ...
The 25-minute hop from Azama Port to Kudaka Island provides just enough time to glimpse back at Okinawa’s receding coast before turning to gaze at the shoreline looming — not that I expected a great deal from an island so easily and frequently linked ...
Run down to the New Otani Tokyo Many consider fall the best season to start jogging or exercising outside. In cooperation with Adidas, the Hotel New Otani Tokyo is offering a special accommodation plan for runners, called Runners Stay supported by Adidas, through March ...
Where does an expatriate living in Okinawa go for a two-week summer holiday? Why, to Tokyo, of course — if it’s a working holiday — as there’s no better place in Japan to make good money than the Big Mikan. So, for the past ...
Novelist Ogai honored with sweets To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ogai Mori, one of Japan’s most famous novelists, Bunkyo Ward in Tokyo held a special project earlier this year in which it commissioned new desserts named after authors associated with ...
