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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 9, 2017

Fresh fruit to celebrate the season

The Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto celebrates the approaching spring with a selection of strawberry-themed desserts, featuring amao brand strawberries, through March 31 at the hotel's lounge inside the Kaza restaurant on the first floor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 3, 2017

Delifucious: Fish burgers and 'anago' dogs prepared by an experienced sushi chef

Let's hear it for Nakameguro. Tokyo's hippest neighborhood has some of the best artisan pizza, craft beer and third-wave coffee outlets in the city. Now with the arrival of Delifucious, we can add premium fish burgers to that list.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Feb 24, 2017

Nuwara Kade: Sri Lankan cuisine that take spice seriously

Hands up if you think spicy food in Japan could do with being (a whole lot) spicier?
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 23, 2017

Welcome the season with sushi

The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho, a Luxury Collection hotel in Tokyo, is offering the "Karin Temarisushi" sushi lunch plan — inspired by flower gardens — until May 31.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2017

Variety of discounts, perks in works for 'Premium Friday' launch

Starting Friday, many workers in Japan, notorious for its culture of overwork, will have a chance to start the weekend early, albeit once a month, for a trip to an onsen (hot springs), a shopping spree or simply dining out with family and friends.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 17, 2017

Venu's South Indian Dining: Tidy atmosphere, deep flavors

There are no prizes for guessing what's on the menu at Venu's South Indian Dining — but there are surprises.
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 16, 2017

Cherry blossoms ring in the season

Tokyo's Royal Park Hotel will hold a Sakura Fair March 11 through April 20 to welcome the splendid season of cherry blossoms.
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 16, 2017

Comedian Jimmy Carr talks about sensitivity, universal jokes and the best sound he can hear at a stand-up show

"OK, let's kick off with a question for you, in time-honored tradition," Jimmy Carr says to me at the outset of our interview. "Do many comedians make it over to Japan?"
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 13, 2017

The Japanese and love — more complicated than you think

The Japanese suck at this thing called love, and no amount of Valentine's Day chocolate is going to fix that.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 4, 2017

Bathing in the French culture of Tokyo's Kagurazaka district

"To err is human. To loaf is Parisian," said the French writer Victor Hugo. Although seasoned in erring and loafing, I cannot attest that he nailed Paris. But loafing is tres a la mode in Kagurazaka, a shopping and dining area in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward that is famed for its touch of French culture.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 3, 2017

Yakitori Imai: A new grill pairs tradition with ambience

What better way to mark the start of this new lunar year than with yakitori? It's the Year of the Fire Rooster, so that calls for some good skewers — prime jidori chicken, of course, carefully prepared over proper charcoal. At Yakitori Imai that's exactly what you get, in the most stylish of settings....
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BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2017

Nestle Japan rolls out 'sushi' KitKats at new Ginza store

Japanese KitKats are famous — or perhaps infamous — for their varied and sometimes peculiar flavors, including green tea, sake and wasabi. But now Nestle Japan Ltd. has released arguably its strangest concoction yet: sushi.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 2, 2017

Disco dancing the night away

Live Disco Night 2017 will take place on March 2 at the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in Shibuya, featuring two bands, Ginza Kento's Bless of G.K. and The Mint Factory.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 31, 2017

The future looks bright for artists in the ancient capital

"Kyoto Art For Tomorrow" at The Museum of Kyoto draws together single pieces by 43 up-and-coming artists under the age of 40. Focusing on a new generation, the exhibition looks forward to the international attention Japan will receive for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Indeed, the show adopts Pierre de Coubertin...
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JAPAN / AT A GLANCE
Jan 31, 2017

Tsukiji's fish wholesalers may be leaving but Showa Era outer market here to stay

Although the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tsukiji's fish merchants are wrangling over the planned transfer of the site in Chuo Ward to the Toyosu district in Koto Ward a few kilometers southeast, there is still a portion of the world-famous market that will remain vibrant and unchanged.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 26, 2017

Craft beer for winter cheer

In good news for beer-lovers, the Hyatt Regency Tokyo is offering two free-flowing beverage courses through Feb. 28 at the Caffe. The first is the Yona Yona Beer Plan (¥6,000), featuring the amber-colored Yona Yona Ale, an early pioneer of Japan's craft beer that boasts a rich citrus aroma.
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JAPAN
Jan 25, 2017

Vendors cash in on Trump mania with premium burgers, chocolate and toilet paper

While foreign products paying homage to new U.S. President Donald Trump are hot items online in Japan, the country's manufacturers and shops have also developed a range of items of their own — from premium hamburgers to chocolate.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 21, 2017

In uncertain times, Japan opts to save

A funny thing happened on the way to the marketplace. The crowd thinned out. Consumption? Been there, done that. Enough.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 20, 2017

Tempura Yokota: The taste of tradition in a fast-changing neighborhood

The sign on the street outside Tempura Yokota and the elevator up to the restaurant are as modern as they come. But the patinated sliding wooden door that greets you on arrival speaks of tradition and, once you're inside, so does the welcome.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 19, 2017

Accommodation plan fit for a queen

For women feeling like they want to be treated like a queen, the Grand Hyatt Tokyo is offering a Marie Antoinette-inspired accommodation plan through Feb. 26.
BASKETBALL
Jan 13, 2017

Japan hoop legend Kohama dead at 84

Mototaka Kohama, affectionately known as the "Godfather of Japanese basketball," died on Thursday. He was 84.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Jan 13, 2017

Suzuya: one of the old capital's oldest coffee shops

Last year, Suzuya celebrated its 70th anniversary, making it one of the oldest kissaten (traditional coffee shops) in Kyoto. To the best of my knowledge, only Salon de The Francois — which opened in the interwar period — pips it for longevity.

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