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LIFE / WEEK 3
Nov 21, 2010

Heading for the hills — in style

One sunny Saturday a couple of weeks ago, this writer joined five women and three men who met up at Ikusabata Station on the JR Ome Line in the mountains of western Tokyo.
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2010

Looking less like a secret

The Metropolitan Police Department and public prosecutors decided Monday not to arrest a Japan Coast Guard member who has allegedly confessed to having leaked video footage onto YouTube of the Sept. 7 collisions between a Chinese trawler and two JCG patrol ships off the Senkaku Islands of Okinawa Prefecture....
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 14, 2010

Back in the mists of time

It was November, and the leaves were ocher on the trees swathing the hills behind the reconstructed wooden buildings. Gaggles of chattering exchange students ducked in and out of the faux historical shops and houses, obviously enjoying themselves and their day out.
LIFE
Nov 14, 2010

The Hour of the Ox

At 13 years of age, Angelica Akahoshi was the youngest person ever awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for Literature.
EDITORIALS
Nov 11, 2010

Managing vs. throttling

The police Wednesday identified a Japan Coast Guard member in Kobe as a suspect in the Nov. 4 leak onto YouTube of video footage showing a Sept. 7 collision between a Chinese trawler and two Japan Coast Guard patrol ships off the Senkaku Islands. Earlier, documents apparently linked to the security police's...
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2010

Manga-friendly Japan

Manga sales might be falling, but manga and anime as well as cute mascot characters permeate Japanese society. The new virtual koban "Keisatsucho Fureai Koban," launched this month by the National Police Agency, has its mascot character "K-ta-kun" answering common questions.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 5, 2010

To your health: Vinegar is the toast at Osuya

Following the refurbishment of the Ginza Mitsukoshi department store, much media attention has focused on the ninth-floor rooftop lawn terrace. But it's the bottommost floors that grab our interest. They have been totally revamped to create Tokyo's newest, classiest depachika basement food hall.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Oct 31, 2010

Crafts meet art in Nihonbashi

Perhaps all writers love paper — it's in our fiber, so to speak — and when it comes to paper, Japanese washi rules. So, off I head to Ozu Washi store in central Tokyo's Chuo Ward to take a class in how to make it.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2010

Underfunded NGOs raising domestic issues

NAGOYA — The United Nations COP10 conference is focusing on how to reduce biodiversity loss globally. In addition to formal negotiations, there are hundreds of seminars on everything from protecting marine life to accessing genetic resources on land occupied by indigenous people.
JAPAN / LIVING IN LUXURY
Oct 22, 2010

Diplomat's House a Victorian original on Yamate bluff

Just a five-minute walk from JR Ishikawacho Station on the Keihin-Tohoku Line, an old Victorian-style building known as the Diplomat's House stands on a bluff overlooking Yokohama.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Oct 17, 2010

Okitsuru: An island in the middle of Yokohama

At a 2009 concert, Seijin Noborikawa, the grand-daddy of Okinawan folk music, told the audience about where he felt most at home when he visited mainland Japan. He described a neighborhood where passersby chatted in uchinaaguchi language, where shops served pig-trotter noodles and island songs seeped...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 15, 2010

Rue de Shuri: Small is beautiful out in Nakame

Everyone likes Naka-Meguro. With its languid tree-lined creek, quirky bars and design boutiques and easygoing low-rise ambience — away from the station, at any rate — it's one of the Tokyo locales we all wish we lived in. Best of all, Nakame (as those in the know call it) has some excellent little...
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 10, 2010

Standing up for the right to sit down in public

A quick story about me, public seating and Japan: It's 1994. I've been in Tokyo less than a week and this is my first time in Shinjuku. Lunchtime comes and my student thriftiness and Australian love of the outdoors beget a plan: I'll grab something at a department-store food counter and eat it on a seat...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 1, 2010

Arabic calligraphy: Let ink make you think

Calligraphy has always been popular in Japan, but some people here are now attracted to an imported, yet equally profound, form of the traditional art: Arabic calligraphy.
JAPAN / LIVING IN LUXURY
Sep 10, 2010

Royal trappings grace Akasaka Guest House

People who visited the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, may have stepped into the old two-story Guest House, which stands behind the 40-story main hotel.
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Sep 8, 2010

Shinkansen chopsticks add dash of otaku goodness to lunch

One of the more popular items to come out of Japan last year was Kotobukiya's "Star Wars" Light Saber Chopsticks, which made the rounds on popular tech blogs such as Gizmodo, Wired and TechCrunch's CrunchGear. And while they might not have "the force" (nor the brand power) of any "Star Wars" product,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 5, 2010

Lofty tonic in the heat

So what do you do when it's summer in Japan and the heat and humidity have become just plain silly?
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 4, 2010

Long-distance bus carriers' rivalry heats up in Nagoya

Competition in the highway express bus industry is heating up as more and more people look for ways to cut domestic travel costs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 3, 2010

From 'Dawn of the Dead' to the live-and-kicking golden 'oldies'

Shu Matsui's innocent smile is familiar. He's always beaming on TV ads, whether he's plugging a washing softener, playing a gentle new father or promoting mobile phones in the guise of a young doctor. But if you were to see any production by Sample, the theater company Matsui founded in 2007, you'd be...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 3, 2010

Get a taste of a monk's life at Buddhist cafe

Koya-san Cafe is an event that gives you a taste of what life is like at the Buddhist stronghold of Mount Koya in Wakayama Prefecture.

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