The intai jiai (retirement game) is a significant event in Japanese pro baseball for long-time star players about to hang up their spikes and call it a career. It usually occurs at the end of a season after it has been announced the player ...
Imported whiskies are expanding their presence in Japan amid a boom that is creating shortages of domestic spirits and increasing demand for diversity. Sparked by the resurgence of the highball cocktail, the boom is thinning stocks of Japanese products that grew popular after a ...
Japanese companies, which have embarked on a $210 billion global acquisition spree over the past three years, are getting a surprise bargain out of Brexit. The yen soared Friday to its highest in more than two years, boosting local firms’ purchasing power for deals ...
Tomoko Sonoda was a college student during the “Dry Wars,” the years immediately following the 1987 release of the game-changing light lager Asahi Super Dry. She and her classmates held tasting parties for the spate of new brews that were released by the three ...
Journalists who refuse to toe the official line are under pressure, experts say
Cherry blossom season is upon us, meaning it’s time to overindulge in some brews while sprawled out in a park. But who wants to deal with the health-related guilt that comes with Japan’s silly season? Asahi sees your dilemma, and has introduced The Dream, ...
There has been life on Earth for roughly 3.8 billion years, and humans have only been around for a small portion of that time. The four-hour special “Ningen wa Nan da?” (“What is a Human Being?”; TBS, Mon., 7 p.m.) attempts to get at ...
Suntory Holdings Ltd. lost a patent dispute with rival Asahi Breweries Ltd. on Thursday, with the Tokyo District Court rejecting its demand for a halt to production and sales of Asahi’s nonalcoholic beer. Suntory had sought the suspension of Asahi’s Dry Zero, which was ...
“Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.” — Philip Snowden, July 1916 In September 1945, less than a month after Japan’s surrender ending World War II and ushering in the U.S.-led Occupation, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander for the Allied ...
Something significant happened in April that attracted only desultory press coverage, so let’s give it some more. GPlus Media Co., which operates English-language websites Japan Today and GaijinPot, was sold to Fuji TV-Lab, a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. The Fuji Media group ...
Japanese comics are as popular in the rest of Asia as they are in Japan. The 2012 Taiwanese drama series “Chocolat” (BS-TBS, Tues., 7 a.m.) is based on a manga originally serialized in Big Comic Spirits that itself was adapted as a Japanese TV ...
Investigators are trying to work out why the airliner came in too low, apparently ripping through a communications tower before skidding off the runway, injuring more than 20 people.
