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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 25, 2014

Getting a taste of design, fashion; burritos for the working woman

Getting a taste of design, fashion
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jul 10, 2014

Cooling off sizzling summer streets; the most important meal of the day; experience Turkish food and wine

Cooling off sizzling summer streets As part of a community collaboration project, the Tokyo Station Hotel is offering a special accommodation plan on July 25, which allows customers to join local community activities.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / NATURE'S PANTRY
Apr 29, 2014

A natural miso and soy factory that is always full of beans

Although rice is certainly the king of Japanese food, soybeans are the queen. Small makers of miso, soy sauce and tofu dot the landscape of Japan, but blink once and you will notice that the local shops are closing up as supermarket culture takes over daily life.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 4, 2014

Baby facilities take the tantrums out of shopping

"Toddler" and "shopping" are two words that are likely to instill instant fear into the heart of all but the most unflappable of parents.
JAPAN / THREE YEARS AFTER 3/11
Mar 5, 2014

Tohoku finding real recovery hard to come by

Yumiko Onodera is a survivor. She saw her town of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by gigantic tsunami and ensuing fire from damaged heavy oil tanks at the major fishery port on March 11, 2011.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 16, 2013

Kyojima: Tokyo's epicenter of disaster risk?

Kyojima in eastern Tokyo is a perfect storm of natural-disaster risk, but while the metropolitan government is trying to get old people out, young people are moving in.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Dec 15, 2013

December: A last tango with soba

Some men go out to buy that flaming red sportscar. Others embark on a messy but absorbing divorce process. Then there is of course, nirvana: the gorufujō (ゴルフ場, golf course). But in Japan, when men hit a certain age they have another option to turn to. The authentic mark of a honmono (本物,...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / A TASTE OF HOME
Oct 17, 2013

Where's a New Yorker to find a decent slice in Tokyo?

I heard a rumor that there was a New York-style pizza shop in Tokyo Station that was importing water from New York City. That's how hard they were trying to make their pizza taste authentic. This was exciting news: New York-style pizza, served by the slice with long trails of gooey mozzarella (and maybe...
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LIFE / Lifestyle / ON: FASHION
Oct 7, 2013

Madstore, Christian Dada, Alexander Wang make Tokyo debuts, while Parco pushes the envelope

Alexander Wang lands in Aoyama
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Oct 3, 2013

A modern twist to traditional snacks

Nowhere is the intersection of Japanese food culture and style more obvious than in the genteel, refined world of wagashi. For centuries, Japanese confectioners, especially those associated with Kyoto and the rituals of the tea ceremony, have produced sweets of astounding intricacy and beauty.
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BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2013

How Wal-Mart's Waltons maintain their billionaire fortune

Visitors to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, leave appreciative notes on a glass wall near the entrance.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jul 23, 2013

Ginza merchant has essence of Edo cool

Masayuki Kazama, 51, is the owner of StockPlus, a mailbox-rental and parcel-forwarding service located in Tokyo's Ginza district, just opposite the Kabukiza theater.
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jul 2, 2013

Wood, paper, leather and a brolly that branches out into a leafy bough

Hang on to a brolly this summer
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COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 4, 2013

Hunting for big-foot: Large shoes tough to track down in Tokyo

Buying large shoes in Japan is a bit like trying to find a prime-time TV show that doesn't feature at least one past or present member of AKB48: You know they exist, but it often takes perseverance and a measure of luck to track them down.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 12, 2013

'Sakura Namiki no Mankai no Shita ni (Cold Bloom)'

Grief doesn't have a sell-by date, not really. Decades after a loss, the absence is still felt, the memories remain.
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Feb 19, 2013

Mastermind moves on, American Apparel is at home in Japan and Primitive London takes a trip to Tokyo

It's a bittersweet finale for the famed Japanese fashion brand Mastermind, as it officially ends its 15-year run with the release of its 2013 spring/summer — and final — collection.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Dec 30, 2012

Testing out tourism in Tohoku

Some, though not all, of our travels change our lives; they cultivate sensibilities, shape values and alter our outlook on things. One such trip I experienced was a sixth-grade school excursion to Hiroshima when, at the Peace Memorial Museum, I saw photographs of people who had suffered massive burns...
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ENVIRONMENT / BACKSTREET STORIES
Nov 25, 2012

The fall fires of Nishigahara

Burning to see fall colors, I head to Tokyo's northern Kita Ward, where Kyu Furukawa Teien, the former estate of copper magnate Ichibei Furukawa, features not only a traditional Japanese garden but also Western-style flowerbeds of autumn-blooming roses. At this time of the season, it should be ablaze....
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Nov 17, 2012

Ink artist pushes the boundaries of tattooing

The skin as canvas, inks and needles replacing the palette: tattoos by Khan transcend mere decorations. Whether he is depicting eye crinkles in a portrait of the Dalai Lama or the leer of a supernatural ghoul, his rich color and technical realism redefines the boundaries of art and pop culture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN TIMES BLOGROLL
Nov 6, 2012

Saké Puppets

When Minnesota-native Angela Salisbury moved to Tokyo, she ditched the guidebooks and explored the city by crafting.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / A TASTE OF HOME
Oct 19, 2012

As the mercury drops, comfort food means pie, pie, pie

In this new monthly column I'll be hunting down home comforts from around the world. And when the weather turns abruptly cold, the American mind turns to Thanksgiving, that annual feast of rare origin — it's as American as apple pie.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / BACKSTREET STORIES
Sep 30, 2012

Casting around for the past on Fish-basket Slope

Hoping to find traces of the fishing village that was Edo (present-day Tokyo) before the first Tokugawa Shogun chose the site for his new political capital in the early 1600s, I head to Gyoranzaka (Fish-basket Slope) in the city's central Mita district.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jul 15, 2012

Life up in the treetops

Imagine strolling through a forest and coming across a hut supported by four trees 8 meters off the ground. With its triangular roof, stained-glass door panels and timber decking, at first sight it's like something in a fairyland.
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ENVIRONMENT / BACKSTREET STORIES
Mar 25, 2012

Plum nuts about Ikegami

Whether you call the Prunus mume a plum or an apricot (it is related to both), the flowers are plum elegant on their leafless, shiny branches and help cheer us through winter's finale. To enjoy them to the full, I seek out Ikegami Baien Garden in southern Tokyo's Ota Ward, having hopped the Tokyu Ikegami...
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2012

Divorcee raising orphaned nephew

When the March 11 quake and tsunami orphaned thousands of children in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, in the majority of cases relatives stepped forward to start raising them.
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LIFE
Oct 30, 2011

PS: 'I love Japan.' And Japan loves Paul Smith, it seems

"Hold on," says the British designer who launched a thousand stripes, reaching awkwardly into the back of the crisp white shirt he is wearing.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Sep 27, 2011

Ichifuji owners Midori and Takashi Nakao

Midori and Takashi Nakao, 55 and 61, are the owners of Ichifuji, a shop selling Japanese crockery in Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market. Established in 1951, the store is located in one of the oldest buildings in the jōgai shijō or outer market. More than 5,000 types of Japanese tableware are available to...

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