For Yoko Hani's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
OXFORD ENGLAND — The last leaves were falling and the world was plunging into an economic crisis as journalists from around the world gathered for a meeting in England. The venue, though, was not a conference room in the financial hub of the City ...
AMSTERDAM — Seen from Japan, a country known for dragging its feet in terms of gender equality, the Netherlands is often regarded as a model of social enlightenment. In fact, the Western European nation ranked 6th out of 93 countries in the United Nations ...
I like soccer. I like to watch it. I even tried to play it a few times when I was a kid, though I was not good at sports that didn't require me to use my hands, so I switched to tennis and basketball. ...
Artist Mitsuaki Tanabe is stubborn. In the past 20 years, he has been creating sculptures themed on a single motif: a grain of rice. But the rice that Tanabe selects to sculpt is not the common-or-garden sort that people normally stuff themselves with. Oh no, it ...
Regardless of whether you take it with a pinch of salt or think this consummate professional is simply being modest, Tom Maschler says that throughout his celebrated publishing career, "luck" has often played a significant role. Certainly, as he writes in his 2005 autobiography "Publisher," ...
Tom Maschler, a legendary British editor who put 13 Nobel Prize-winning authors into print, will address audiences at two events set for March 18 and 20 in Tokyo. Maschler is renowned as an editor who published works by many famous writers, including Bruce Chatwin, Gabriel ...
Enjoying good food is a fundamental pleasure. But the slow-food movement asks whether "good food" can mean more than simply the flavor and presentation of a meal. "When we talk about quality food, we mean something that is good to taste but also good in ...
A n exhibition of works by UrumaDelvi, who created the popular TV character "Oshirikajiri-mushi," will be held March 1 to 16 at Parco Factory in Tokyo's Shibuya. Oshirikajiri-mushi ("buttock-biting insect") first hit the airwaves in June last year on an NHK program and became very ...
For her doctoral thesis, Kazuyo Sakanoi studied the mechanisms of flickering auroras — those luminous phenomena in the atmosphere that appear like curtains of light. "Auroras twinkle at an altitude of about 100 km in the sky. They are phenomena in space actually, not on ...
When Kayoko Sugahara started working as a systems engineer 25 years ago, she sometimes stayed in her office late into the night running performance tests on computers, and often went there on weekends to use the computers there. But now, thanks to technological developments, Sugahara, ...
