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Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 28, 2017

Tokuyamazushi: Wild dining from lake and forest in Shiga

Owner-chef Hiroaki Tokuyama prepares modern versions of narezushi, which he serves as part of his multicourse meals featuring local fish and game.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 28, 2017

Tomita Shuzo: Storied sake on a Shiga street that time forgot

As well as being one of the oldest sake breweries in Japan, the sake here is also some of the nation's finest.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2017

Small Japanese credit union outperforms mega-banks by lending to geisha and local startups

Kikuno Kashima, a Tokyo geisha, couldn't get a bank loan to open a club for her patrons and select guests until a tiny credit union agreed to lend her the money. Now she's part of a lending model that's doling out cash to startup companies and yielding surprisingly high profits in the process.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Oct 22, 2017

Anime tourism invites overseas fans to join festivities

Yuwaku Onsen is a 1,300-year-old hot-springs resort tucked between mountains along the Asano River south of Kanazawa. Ten mid-size traditional inns line its slim main street, leading to a small hillside shrine and a man-made pond.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Gourmet Trails
Oct 21, 2017

Six temples, 60 km and countless bowls of Sanuki udon in Kagawa

For foodies, Kagawa can mean just one thing: the prefecture's signature noodles.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 21, 2017

Magazines hold their own against TV's 'iron chefs'

Prior to Japan's switch-over to full digital TV broadcasting in 2011, a number of industry insiders were already voicing concerns about how the new technology would affect their bottom line. With expanded bandwidth and additional channels, what — aside from reruns of old programs — could the networks...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Oct 21, 2017

Sato no Ie Hanase: Kyoto-level kaiseki for all seasons

At Sato no Ie Hanase, Kyoto's loss is most definitely Osaka's gain.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Tools of the Japanese Kitchen
Oct 21, 2017

Donabe: The hardy pot that Japanese cooks swear by

The cookware that has made the biggest comeback in recent years can be traced back to prehistoric times: the donabe, a lidded, heatproof earthenware pot with a matching vented lid.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 19, 2017

Buffet offers the flavors of Niigata

The InterContinental Tokyo Bay's Chef's Live Kitchen is offering its 10th Niigata Promotion through Nov. 30. Lunch, dinner and dessert buffets will feature approximately 25 traditional items made using ingredients from Niigata Prefecture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2017

Internet bad boy Takafumi Horie and Wagyumafia bet the farm on intensely marbled steaks

Corporate enfant terrible, Takafumi Horie, built one of Japan's most successful internet businesses, stood for the Diet, went to prison and started a space company that aims to put the country's first privately funded rocket into orbit. Now he has a new frontier: cattle.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 15, 2017

How Japan's service industry is trying to adapt to the worst labor crunch in 25 years

Before Hisashi Kanbe in 2013 introduced BakeryScan, the world's first image recognition checkout system designed specifically for bread, it was the job of every bakery worker in Japan to memorize the assorted prices of each baked good — from baguettes back to bagels.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 15, 2017

North's unhappy mix of tourists and military

The Wonsan resort is not North Korea's first attempt to mix the military and tourism.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 14, 2017

Shake Shack experiments with automated order kiosks in U.S.

Beloved burger chain Shake Shack recently announced plans to use automated kiosks in lieu of employees to take orders at its new Astor Place location in New York.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 14, 2017

Success is elusive on the wrong side of the wealth gap

When the political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) visited the infant United States in 1831, he was struck above all by the "equality of condition" that prevailed there.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 12, 2017

City sights and brunch delights

The Lounge South Court on the 20th floor of the Hotel Century Southern Tower in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, offers "South Court Brunch" on weekends and holidays.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 7, 2017

Hokkaido's Hakodate is heaven for gourmands of all stripes

Hakodate occupies a unique place on the Japanese landscape, both literally and gastronomically speaking.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2017

Struggling Brussels church hops to it, hopes brew gets believers to belly up to the pews

A Brussels church that was nearly forced to close its doors for lack of parishioners has turned to the Belgian brewing tradition and launched a new beer in order to raise more funds for a now growing congregation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 5, 2017

Food, folks and film: Yamagata festival dives deep into documentaries

Once an obscure corner of a film world dominated by the fantasies of Hollywood, documentaries are now drawing more attention from both paying audiences and wider society. And the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, whose 15th edition unspools from Oct. 5 to 12 in Yamagata, has long been...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2017

Japan tourism group builds social media presence with new Instagram account

The Japan National Tourism Organization is finally turning to Instagram to attract overseas travelers amid an unprecedented tourism boom.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2017

Entrepreneurs a dying breed?

Maybe America is no longer a 'Shark Tank' nation' after all.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 1, 2017

Tea and Tiananmen: Inside China's new censorship machine

In a glass tower in a trendy part of China's eastern city of Tianjin, hundreds of young men and women sit in front of computer screens, scouring the internet for videos and messages that run counter to Communist Party doctrine.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 30, 2017

336 Ebisu: Neo-bistro has food and style all its own

If you judge restaurants solely by their architecture and decor, you'd probably finger 336 Ebisu as a temple of modern Scandinavian cuisine. The interior is so simple and airy — all big windows, curving arches, light-wood furniture, unadorned walls — that you expect dishes of Nordic precision. You'd...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 29, 2017

Akizuki: Romantic scenes meet 'Star Wars' lore in picturesque samurai town

The sakura trees that line the main boulevard in Akizuki are far from blooming. That moment is still half a year away, when the trees along the avenue flower to become one of Fukuoka Prefecture's best spots for cherry blossoms.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / Small luxury hotel special
Sep 29, 2017

Intimate resort promises 'infinite' peace

On top of a small hill lies INFINITO HOTEL & SPA Nanki Shirahama, which was rebranded and reopened in April as the one and only hotel resort in the Nanki Shirahama area of Wakayama Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 28, 2017

Lawyerless Turk challenges Osaka car dealer's snub of non-Japanese patrons, wins redress

In a highly unusual case that has surprised Japanese legal experts, a Turkish national based in Osaka sued a local second-hand car dealer for discrimination and won, all without the services of a lawyer.

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