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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 17, 2017

Pizza Studio Tamaki: A challenger for the title of Tokyo's best pie?

Tokyo's best new pizzeria is not hard to find. Just a brief stroll from Akabanebashi Station, it faces out onto a quiet open space ringed with trees. You can't miss it: the neon glowing over the door proclaims "Pizza" and, in smaller letters, the acronym "PST."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 16, 2017

Quantum computing, the machines of tomorrow

It is a sunny Tuesday morning in late March at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. The corridor from the reception area follows the long, curving glass curtain-wall that looks out over the visitors' parking lot to leafless trees covering a distant hill in Yorktown Heights, New York, an hour north...
Reader Mail
Jun 16, 2017

Falsely accused face tough choice

These days, I often hear news about gropers, as well as false accusations of molestation. It is a big issue for both of men and women.
CULTURE
Jun 15, 2017

Fine tableware maker offers VIP treatment

Celebrating more than a century of creating fine porcelain, Japan's Noritake, a world-renowned maker of fine dinnerware, will invite diplomats from various countries living in Japan, foreign businesspeople and others to an exclusive fair at which customers will be given VIP treatment.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Jun 14, 2017

Radiation, risk and robots: Ripping out a reactor's heart

As head of the Muelheim-Kaerlich nuclear reactor, Thomas Volmar spends his days plotting how to tear down his workplace. The best way to do that, he says, is to cut out humans.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 12, 2017

Masahide Ota, former Okinawa governor and noted historian, dies at age 92

Former Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota, a noted historian and survivor of the Battle of Okinawa, succumbs to pneumonia.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 12, 2017

China Eastern flight returns safely to Sydney after engine emergency

A China Eastern flight bound for Shanghai was forced to turn back to Sydney due to a midair emergency involving an engine problem overnight, a spokeswoman for the airline said on Monday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Jun 10, 2017

Taihou: Excellent Sichuan cuisine in a family atmosphere

Taihou is the kind of place where everybody gets to know your name. On a recent visit for Sunday lunch I stayed well past last orders, past dessert, past an impromptu cheese course, only leaving before chef Kouki Watanabe and his staff sat down for their meal and a power nap before gearing up for the...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Jun 10, 2017

Da Yuki: An authentic Neapolitan pizzeria

Da Yuki is an authentic, bijou Neapolitan pizzeria opened 10 years ago by Yuki Kamada, who, like many Japanese, is not prone to doing things in half measures.
Jun 8, 2017

Chotto Ima Kara Shigoto Yamete Kuru / Osaka Station City Cinema / 2017-06-10 to 2017-06-16

until June 11 8:30, 14:40, 17:00, 21:30 / from June 12 14:40, 17:00, 19:00, 21:20
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Jun 4, 2017

Parking the car can drive you crazy

In the 1990s when we rented an old house in Saitama Prefecture, we needed a parking space since we had a car at the time. There was none on the property and so we talked the landlord into tearing down a decrepit prefabricated storage shed that stood next to the house. He did, and then, at our own expense,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 3, 2017

Tokyo Beer Week underway with events across Tokyo and Kanagawa

Behind the usual assortment of fresh produce and their derivative goods at the UNU Farmers' Market in Aoyama last weekend, Tokyo Beer Week 2017, which runs through June 11, was quietly kicking off by offering nearly four dozen taps of craft beer from in and outside of Japan. This year's event spans venues...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 3, 2017

Sanagi Shinjuku: pan-Asian fare with an upbeat beer garden vibe

Time was when dining out under Tokyo's train tracks and expressways meant slumming it with dodgy yakitori and rotgut sake. These days the arches are gentrifying fast — just look at Sanagi Shinjuku.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 3, 2017

Asia lags Taiwan in accepting LGBTQ equality

All across Asia, LGBTQ people remain marginalized and subject to discrimination, abuse and worse, surrounding the beacon of hope in Taiwan with an abiding darkness.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2017

North Korea labels U.S. interceptor test a bluff, says system can't handle 'shower' of missiles

North Korea has blasted the United States' test of a long-range interceptor missile designed to gauge American readiness to counter potential threats from Pyongyang.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jun 2, 2017

Gunman kills himself after causing panic in apparent robbery attempt and torching of Manila casino

A gunman killed himself after bursting into a Manila casino, firing shots and setting gaming tables alight, Philippine police said, sowing panic in a country on high alert after martial law was declared in the south.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2017

Taliban denies Kabul truck blast, warns against retaliation

The Taliban warned the Afghan government on Thursday against harming any of their prisoners after reports that President Ashraf Ghani would order the execution of 11 militants on death row in revenge for the devastating truck bomb attack in Kabul.
EDITORIALS
May 31, 2017

Brazil reaches a familiar 'crossroads'

It now appears that no leading figure in Brazil's political establishment is untainted by the scandal that lead to the ouster of the country's last president.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 30, 2017

Finding the drama without words

"Not everything can be explained in words. Everyone draws a different nuance from the word 'love,' for example," says 50-year-old Shuji Onodera. "Yet through dance I've discovered a special beauty beyond words."

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes