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Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2016

Lifting the lid on Japan's growing crowd of manhole cover spotters

Some tourists look around them but Hidetoshi Ishii prefers to look down.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Aug 27, 2016

Vintage ventures in Tabata Ginza

The midday sky swirls with typhoon clouds as I set off to explore a little shopping area known as Tabata Ginza in Tokyo's Kita Ward. I'm thrilled to be in the charismatic company of a third-generation rakugoka (traditional storyteller) who lives nearby. I met Mikio Katsura, 32, by chance in Tabata last...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 23, 2016

Dance icon Saburo Teshigawara's 'Magic Flute' brings abstract notes to Mozart's final gem

Since studying visual arts and sculpture before taking up ballet at the age of 20 in 1973, Saburo Teshigawara has become a world-renowned choreographer and dancer whose unique style and aesthetic sense has even drawn him commissions from the Paris Opera Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater....
OLYMPICS
Aug 22, 2016

Rio passes Olympic flag to Tokyo, 'Super Abe' during closing ceremony

Tokyo took center stage as Rio de Janeiro handed over the Olympic flag to the 2020 host city at a rain-lashed but joyous closing ceremony for the Rio Games on Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 18, 2016

Underworld: 'We've become inseparable now, and it's really great'

Two years ago, Underworld duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith had an epiphany. After more than three decades of working together — through some unremittingly lean early years; an epoch-defining, mega-selling turn in the 1990s; soundtracking the London Olympics opening ceremony, and a fractured and increasingly...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 16, 2016

The pursuit of perfection with imperfection

The perfect Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition, according to Mark Haworth-Booth, curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1970 and 2004, would have to be vast.
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Aug 14, 2016

Rural Japan rail tours push scenic, luxurious journeys into the unknown

When planning a trip to Japan, tourists are most likely to pack destinations like Mount Fuji, Kyoto and Akihabara all into the space of a few days.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Aug 14, 2016

Into the mystic: a cat named Miko

The mystery is how this beauty, who came to ARK a full six months ago, can still be sitting in the shelter without a home of her own.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 14, 2016

Dinosaur Jr. to bring Tokyo a glimpse of life in 'ear-bleeding country'

Lou Barlow is looking forward to his trip back to Japan. It's the cuisine, more than anything that has him anticipating his return to the country, but it's not what you might think.
Reader Mail
Aug 12, 2016

Lesson from Sagamihara: Coexisting and growing together

On July 26, an unbelievable tragedy occurred at a care home in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture. Nineteen were killed and dozens injured in a knife attack. I pray from the bottom of my heart for the repose of the 19 innocent souls and quick recovery of those injured.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Aug 1, 2016

Talking about Harajuku Station's new look

Harajuku Station is getting a makeover, let's describe how we think it should go.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 30, 2016

Makeup artist Zawachin: 'You can't accomplish anything if you don't even try'

Media personality Kaori Ozawa on makeup and music.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 23, 2016

Tokyo hotels invite guests to live in the lap of luxury

Two domestic hotel operators are shaking up competition in Tokyo's luxury accommodation market by attempting to make their new properties more inviting for inbound visitors.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jul 14, 2016

Plan offers ladies relaxing night's stay; healthy mind and body through Yoga; enjoying a treasure chest of sweets

Plan offers ladies relaxing night's stay
Japan Times
SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Jul 12, 2016

Time for the analytics crowd to take a chill pill and get a grip on reality

TSSSSSSSUP!
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 9, 2016

Baron Raimund von Stillfried: The photographer who invented Japan

To many in the West, Japan is an exotic country, seen through the distorting lens of tourist cliches: cherry blossoms, geisha, samurai, kamikaze. In that sense, little has changed since the Meiji Era (1868-1912), when Japan was first promoted abroad as a sort of Oriental theme park.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 9, 2016

Contemporary artist Masa Samurai: 'I want to capture Japan's love of cute things'

Video producer on fatty tuna, animation and musical underwear.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jun 26, 2016

Skies of blue: a Great Pyrenees named Cosette

This fluffy white beauty is a Great Pyrenees, a gentle breed that is something of a giant when full-grown. Cosette is just over a year old and already 30 kg despite a tragic start. She had been abandoned, left to die along with other dogs in a Tokyo apartment. Filthy, her body wasted when found, she...
LIFE / Travel / HOTEL SPECIAL 2016
Jun 24, 2016

Fine food meets fine tableware

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the ANA InterContinental Tokyo is holding a Japanese kaiseki (traditional multicourse cuisine) fair, offering top-quality delicious Japanese dishes on fine Bizen-yaki earthenware through the month of July at its Unkai Japanese restaurant.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 18, 2016

A spiritual high in the temples of Takayama

Isolated from the pulsating sounds of pachinko parlors and the neon lights of Tokyo, the small, laid-back city of Takayama in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture offers something that visitors to Japan's urban hubs don't typically find: quiet.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 17, 2016

Pope's comments on modern marriage raise storm of criticism

Pope Francis has said the "great majority" of Catholic marriages being celebrated today are invalid because couples do not fully realize it is a lifetime commitment, drawing sharp criticism from Church conservatives.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 16, 2016

Jo Kanamori and Oriza Hirata retell 'La Bayadere' with a dose of political awareness

The atmosphere at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, must have been electric on Feb. 4, 1877. That was the day Austrian composer Ludwig Minkus premiered "La Bayadere" — the latest masterpiece of classical ballet by French choreographer Marius Petipa — to some of Europe's...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 14, 2016

'A Journey to the Land of Immortals: Treasures of Ancient Greece'

June 21-Sept. 19
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jun 11, 2016

The peacemakers of Okinawa

Sixty years ago this week, the U.S. government released the controversial Price Report, triggering mass protests on Okinawa that gave birth to leaders who, while renowned in the prefecture, remain little known outside it
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 4, 2016

A waterlogged retreat, deep in the mountains of Gifu

For a town so closely associated with water, it's rather fitting that Gujo-Hachiman is shaped like a fish.
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
By Alex K.T. Martin

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