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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 30, 2010

Free lunch? Coming right up

Ajinomoto follows the free philosophy and opens Dashi Cafe, where you can dine on miso soup and rice balls for no charge.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2010

Maehara hangs tough on Senkaku dispute

Newly appointed Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara repeated Wednesday that the recent collision between a Chinese trawler and Japan Coast Guard vessels occurred in Japanese territory and demanded China take measures to prevent a recurrence.
EDITORIALS
Sep 27, 2010

Preserving the past

For a country that places such importance on history and tradition, Japan can be surprisingly cavalier about preserving its historical buildings, as it tends to fatalistically accept — or positively welcome — the old making way for the new.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Sep 26, 2010

Yakuza groups shoveled aside by Japan's frustrated contractors

News organizations have consistently celebrated the steady rise of the Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward. Yet the most interesting aspect to the building project, set to reach a height of 634 meters, might be taking place at ground level.
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Sep 26, 2010

Moving pictures of Shibamata

I change trains three times before boarding one of Tokyo's shortest lines, the 2.5-km Keisei Kanamachi. I'm bound for Shibamata, which isn't precisely a backstreet, but it's tucked so far from most major thoroughfares in the back-beyond of Katsushika Ward that I imagine it will fit the bill.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 25, 2010

Public taking hands-on interest in archaeology

When it comes to promoting archaeological excavations, it isn't just the resulting artifacts that are being featured — institutions are increasingly highlighting the sites and the research process itself.
JAPAN / LIVING IN LUXURY
Sep 24, 2010

A taste of Spain in Shinjuku Ward

Just outside Wakamatsu-Kawada Station on the Oedo subway line in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, stands an elegant building with cream-colored exterior walls and an entrance with a modern canopy decorated with a motif of grapes.
BUSINESS / JAPAN-U.S. SEMINAR
Sep 24, 2010

New vision of Japan-U.S. ties needed at key turning point

Japan-U.S. relations are at a turning point and the Futenma base dispute — which has strained bilateral ties since the Democratic Party of Japan took power a year ago — is also symbolic of the broader and longer-term changes that affect the alliance, American experts said at a recent seminar in Tokyo....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Sep 24, 2010

'Mizuki Shigeru: Illustrations of Yokai'

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe Closes Oct. 3
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 23, 2010

Not seeing and yet still believing

In January 2008, Kakuho Aoe, a Buddhist monk at Ryokusenji Temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, began holding monthly "dark dinner" events, for which participants were blindfolded before being served their meals. Following the success of those events, he is now adding something a little different to the menu of...
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LIFE / Digital
Sep 22, 2010

TGS industry parties offer special treatment to chosen few

Far from the chaos of the Makuhari Messe exhibition center, which was filled with tens of thousands of gamers plus noisy games and event stages, members of the press, privileged bloggers and select VIPs saw a different side of the Tokyo Game Show.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Sep 21, 2010

Towns, cities need vision to halt decline

Dear Prime Minister Naoto Kan,
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2010

Mr. Kan picks new Cabinet

Prime Minister Naoto Kan got off to a fresh start Friday, three days after his re-election as head of the Democratic Party of Japan in a contest with former DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. He extensively reshuffled his Cabinet by replacing 10 of the 17 members. Before that, he installed new party...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Sep 18, 2010

Tokyo cafe entrepreneurs bring more to the table

Some cafe entrepreneurs are looking beyond the set menu of java and jazz and bringing more to the table.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Sep 18, 2010

Numerous diplomatic issues loom

Not known for his diplomatic skills, it's unclear how Prime Minister Naoto Kan will deal with pressing international issues, even with a major Cabinet reshuffle Friday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 17, 2010

Maison Bretonne: All for the love of Breton galettes

Isn't it about time that galettes — those skinny, savory, nut-brown buckwheat pancakes born in Brittany but now ubiquitous in French cuisine — took this country by storm?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 17, 2010

New exhibition anticipates a design museum for Japan

In March, with the opening of the Design Museum Holon, Israel added its name to a long list of countries that have at least one full-fledged museum dedicated to design. Japan, despite its reputation as a design powerhouse — hard-earned during the 20th century by innovative work such as Sony's Walkman,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 17, 2010

Koz Cafe: Colorful dishes, Scandinavian style

One of our best — and best-looking — discoveries this summer has been Koz Cafe. Occupying a converted house on a narrow pedestrian street on the Tomigaya side of Yoyogi Park, it has a distinctive Scandinavian feel both inside and out (you can't miss its patterned slate-blue exterior) and on the menu...
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2010

Beijing testing Japan-U.S. relationship, Armitage warns

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Wednesday in Tokyo that China is testing Japan over the "chill" in its ties with the U.S. by creating mischief in the East China Sea, particularly last week's collisions between a Chinese trawler and Japan Coast Guard vessels.
EDITORIALS
Sep 16, 2010

Mr. Kan keeps his job

Prime Minister Naoto Kan saved his job by beating Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, former secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, in Tuesday's election of the DPJ president. In a big win, he got 721 points from DPJ Diet lawmakers, local assembly members, and registered party members and supporters against...

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