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South Korea confirmed Saturday another 813 cases of the new coronavirus, taking its infection total to 3,150. The Health and Welfare Ministry said in a statement that 657 of the new cases were in Daegu, the epicenter of South Korea's COVID-19 outbreak. The total in ...
Addressing a nation gripped by uncertainty, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday made a televised appeal for public cooperation in the "fight against the invisible and unknown virus" and tried to soften the blow from his government's abrupt and disruptive containment measures. “Frankly, it isn’t ...
The return of pro baseball to Tokyo Dome on Saturday night was greeted by a jarring silence. There were no songs or chants to welcome the players to the plate nor the blaring of trumpets to provide the familiar soundtrack to the NPB experience. Instead, it ...
South Korea confirmed Saturday another 813 cases of the new coronavirus, taking its infection total to 3,150. The Health and Welfare Ministry said in a statement that 657 of the new cases were in Daegu, the epicenter of South Korea's COVID-19 outbreak. The total in ...
The 1990s sneaker craze eventually cooled off, but over the past four or five years a new wave has risen, towering over anything that came before.
Texas Legends bench boss George Galanopoulos, in his first season at the helm, got the type of performance from his team on Friday night that any head coach would be happy with. Balanced scoring was a vital factor for the Legends in a 125-117 victory ...
A good portion of the airspace over central Japan has been reserved for the exclusive use of the U.S. military since the end of World War II, a fact that isn't widely known in Japan. Over the past several weeks, however, it has become ...
The Japanese expression "kankodori ga naku" (literally, "the cuckoo sings") is frequently used to describe a business slump. "Kankodori" appears in a headline in Flash (Feb. 18) concerning Nara Park. Not only are visitor numbers to this destination way down, but the famous deer that ...
Offering creative culinary experiences across the country, tourism companies like ByFood and Arigato Japan Food Tours are taking the lead as Japan hopes to become a "tourism-oriented country" by 2030.
Chef Atsumi says luck was the key ingredient to his culinary success in Paris.
Tokyo boasts an abundance of markets selling regional specialties from all over Japan. Just as fascinating as the diversity of merchandise on offer are the vendors themselves, who have plenty to say about their wares.
It's an excellent sign when the first sight that greets you at a restaurant is a gleaming refrigerator filled with some of the best sake in Japan. When the next thing you see is a room set aside for rolling out and cutting soba ...
Tokyo Cacao is pushing the boundaries of cacao production with the first ever chocolate bar of entirely Japanese origin. The chocolate lineup is produced from trees grown in the Ogasawara Islands, which fall under Tokyo's jurisdiction despite being nearly 1,000 kilometers away from the ...
Get your matcha, crepe or bubble tea fix simultaneously with Ochaba's green tea tapioca drinks or lineup of matcha-centric crepes.
Tokyo’s train system is considered to be one of the most expansive and most reliable in the world, but it can be pretty intimidating for anglophones trying to navigate the city. Thankfully, announcements in English can be heard on many railway lines, with narrators providing ...
Iain Maloney's "The Only Gaijin in the Village" is a thought-provoking, lively examination of one immigrant's quest to create a new home outside his country of birth.
Demons, spirits and other things that go bump in the night come to life in Julie Kagawa's epic young adult fantasy "Shadow of the Fox."
Vampires may not have a traditional place in Japanese literature, but since the 1910s plenty of writers have tackled the dark — often sexy — subject, albeit with a Japanese twist.
The nerve gas sarin, planted on packed commuter subway trains in Tokyo during the morning rush hour Monday, killed six people and injured nearly 3,230 others in what police said was attempted mass murder.
