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Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 20, 2021

Hakko Department: Set meals showcase the breadth of Japan’s fermented foods

It's easy to take Japan's wealth of fermented foods for granted. Hakko Department puts them front and center.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Mar 4, 2021

For manga's striving artists, success lurks online

Cartoonist Kamentotsu says the industry has changed from 'farming' artists to 'hunting' for them.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2021

Seasoned U.S. diplomat needed as China envoy

Who will be the next U.S. ambassador to China? It’s time for U.S. President Joe Biden to stop playing politics and choose someone of a diplomatic temperament who knows China well.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2021

K-12 education will never be the same after COVID-19

The pandemic has emphasized that families want very different things from their children's schools. And new models of education have popped up to serve them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2021

Amazon documents reveal company's secret strategy to dodge India's regulators

The revelations could deepen the risks facing the company as it encounters intensifying government scrutiny in one of its fastest-growing markets.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Women of Taste
Feb 13, 2021

Yoko Nagatomo Shiomi: An unusual heir to a 144-year-old miso brewery

Thanks to its strong female leadership, Kanena Miso & Soy Sauce Brewery has weathered war, shifts in taste and now the pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 12, 2021

Koji Arano: Dating in a pandemic, ‘every encounter is now more valuable’

Through his YouTube channel Moteki Producer, Osaka native Koji Arano offers up relationship advice to a love-hungry audience.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 1, 2021

With Kuaishou, ex-Googler turns virtual gifts into a $61 billion business

The ByteDance Ltd. rival has become the biggest livestreaming platform for virtual gifts, with more paying monthly users than any other in the world.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Jan 30, 2021

How COVID-19 is forcing us to re-examine food waste

The pandemic is breaking down the 'invisible wall' between food producers and consumers. But is it enough to change wasteful habits?
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 30, 2021

The Restaurant: Florilege protege gives local Gunma ingredients the high-end treatment

With a focus on local food products, the reborn Shiroiya Hotel has put Gunma Prefecture's capital city back on the culinary map.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jan 23, 2021

The ultimate colors to illuminate your 2021

“On Design” looks at a few recent product releases that highlight Pantone's newest color(s) of the year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2021

Five books that explain the world

To comprehend Russia, including the mindset of Vladimir Putin, I've found more illumination in Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and above all Gogol than in most CIA reports.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jan 8, 2021

New Year Basho arrives with yokozuna absent and virus concerns rising

The first grand tournament of 2021 is scheduled to begin Sunday despite the announcement of a state of emergency in parts of the greater Tokyo area.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 8, 2021

A shattering blow to America’s troubled democratic image

The institutions of democracy prevailed in the early hours of the following morning, but the images of mob rule in Washington touched a particular nerve in fractured Western societies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2021

Stuck in Japan amid pandemic, trio of South American artists find fame and sisterhood

Teresa Currea, Clara Campos and Oriana Marin have fostered lifelong friendships and even become local celebrities.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Dec 19, 2020

This is the quintessential Japanese noodle dish you should eat over new year

Toshikoshi soba is a comforting dish best enjoyed slowly, perhaps with some sake, while you quietly plan ahead for a better 2021.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Dec 19, 2020

Sake brewing in 2020: ‘Hard times are going to be with us for a while’

After years of incremental gains due to growing popularity abroad, Japan's sake producers struggled with substantial losses this year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2020

Suntory Museum of Art exhibition focuses on new beauty created by crossing borders

Since relocating to Tokyo Midtown in Tokyo’s Roppongi district in 2007, the Suntory Museum of Art has highlighted the aesthetic connections between old and new, national and local, and East and West. The museum’s latest exhibition, open from Dec. 16 to Feb. 28, focuses on beauty borne from the cross-pollination...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2020

Psychedelics replace cannabis as the new favorite edgy investment

Early stage investors are predicting substances such as psilocybin and Ibogaine have an even better shot than cannabis at disrupting the $70 billion market for mental health.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 14, 2020

As pandemic spurs a tidying frenzy, Japan's secondhand goods market booms

With prompting from Tokyo's governor, alongside decluttering icon Marie Kondo, people are getting rid of old items at a brisk rate.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 6, 2020

Burner phones and banking apps: Meet the Chinese 'brokers' laundering Mexican drug money

Chinese money brokers based in Mexico 'have come to dominate international money laundering markets,' U.S. prosecutors have said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 12, 2020

Multidisciplinary collection in Tokyo depicts a paradox of restraint and restriction

The Fergus McCaffrey gallery has curated works that explore social and regional boundaries as well as the confinements of genre and convention.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 11, 2020

Does Trump’s defeat signal the start of populism’s decline?

The economic, social and political grievances that fed populist and xenophobic movements in many countries are still alive.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2020

Last trains to leave earlier in Tokyo as JR East cuts costs to stem red ink

Weeknight passenger numbers between midnight and 1 a.m. on the Yamanote Line plunged 66% in August compared to the previous year, the firm said.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Oct 28, 2020

Banzuke remains essential part of sumo culture

Distributed before each grand tournament, the hand-written rankings list has been a part of the sport's lore for centuries.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 25, 2020

Nahid Yoshinari: 'I love to involve the audience in the music'

An announcer and translator at NHK, Nahid Yoshinari is happy to share her Persian culture with people in Japan.
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
JICA to designate four Japanese cities as 'hometowns' for African nations
The Japanese flag (left) with the flag of the African Union
Man arrested in Kobe stabbing had been staying at hotel near victim’s home
Masashi Tanimoto arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a woman in Kobe, is sent to prosecutors on Sunday.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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