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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
Popular with foreigners and known for its luxurious service, the small Hotel Seiyo Ginza, in Tokyo’s upscale district, will close on May 31, a hotel manager said Thursday. Its parent company is selling the building and site. Opened in March 1987, the 77-room hotel ...
Japan’s plan for offsetting the plunge in Chinese tourists with visitors from Southeast Asia is expanding to public-private strategy meetings. The Japan National Tourism Organization estimates visitors from six countries in the region surged 32.3 percent to about 210,000 in the January-March quarter from ...
A referendum on a controversial €1 billion ($1.3 billion) project to build golf courses, villas and hotels above Croatia’s Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik has failed due to insufficient turnout, officials said Monday. Such an outcome paves the way for a project by Israeli businessman ...
A transport ministry panel has outlined a set of measures to help increase tourism, including easier visa criteria for people from Southeast Asia. The Justice Ministry and other agencies will discuss the details before placing the measures into an action plan to be adopted ...
Easier visa requirements were recommended to the government Thursday to lift foreign tourism to Japan. The idea was among several proposals submitted by a Liberal Democratic Party tourism panel that are expected to be reflected in the government’s new policies on economic and fiscal ...
All Nippon Airways Co. launched a project Wednesday in collaboration with Japanese all-girl pop group AKB48 to push young Asians to travel more. With the launch of the project with the pop group, which has gained popularity across Asia, “We hope that we’ll be ...
Mass muggings and attacks on Chinese tourists in Paris have spawned alarm and warnings of a decline in the number of free-spending visitors from the Asian giant who swarm to France. More than 1 million Chinese visitors come every year to France, a country ...
The government should take the initiative to promote made-in-Japan Western confectionery overseas as a part of its Cool Japan campaign, Kin Bi-leng, a well-known Taiwanese critic based in Japan, said Wednesday during a government-hosted meeting to discuss promotional strategies. Spearheaded by the Ministry of ...
The Osaka prefectural and municipal governments and local business organizations jointly have opened a tourism bureau tasked with more than quadrupling the prefecture’s annual number of foreign travelers to 6.5 million by 2020. The tourism office, which opened Monday, is financed by a ¥750 ...
Low-cost carrier Spring Airlines is freezing plans to expand to other cities in Japan because the Senkakus dispute is hurting business.
The Japan Tourism Agency wants to promote sake breweries to foreign tourists to tap the drink’s growing popularity abroad and bolster regional economies, the agency said Thursday. At a meeting Tuesday, JTA will urge sake makers, tourism bodies and transportation companies to network and ...
With the number of foreign visitors finally returning to predisaster levels, the Japan Tourism Agency unveiled Friday its new promotion strategy to draw 10 million travelers this year. “I would like to declare that the era of 10 million inbound visitors has arrived,” JTA ...