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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Aug 18, 2018
Helping bean-to-bar chocolate bloom in Japan
For Tomoya Yamashiki, chief strategist of Dandelion Chocolate Japan, Inc., U.S. entrepreneurism opened doors to a new sweet way of life.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
May 26, 2018
Barbecue in Japan: What's a devotee of low and slow to do?
In conversation with Bashamichi Taproom, Smokehouse and Hatos Bar, three of the OGs of Japan's barbecue scene.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 19, 2018
Bees Bar by Narisawa: Restaurant’s side project is a more casual affair
After 15 years, chef Yoshihiro Narisawa's eponymous high-end restaurant in Aoyama needs no introduction or further plaudits, and nor does his innovative, superlative cuisine. But there was always one area that needed addressing: the lack of a bar inside his compact premises.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 24, 2018
Good libations: Examining the evolution of Japan's rich cocktail culture
The art of the cocktail is indisputably non-Japanese. The word itself is old American slang for a pick-me-up, referring in modern parlance to any mixed drink containing liquor and at least one other ingredient. Even if you aren't a drinker, chances are you can name quite a few: the martini, the Manhattan, the gin and tonic. They're more than just libations, they're part of the Western vocabulary for relaxation.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 10, 2018
The Norwegian campaign behind Japan's love of salmon sushi
Look at the menu of any sushi shop in Japan and you will almost certainly see salmon: fatty, tender and bright orange. And for good reason, in a 2017 survey by the seafood company Maruha Nichiro, the fish was found to be the most popular neta (topping) for the sixth year in a row, ranked far higher than the more traditional tuna and halibut.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2018
Chiba Bar Association to remove gender boxes from forms in line with new LGBT-sensitive policy
A local bar association said Wednesday that its policy toward the creation of a respectful environment for sexual minorities calls for removing unnecessary sex-identity questions on registration forms.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 5, 2017
Fukuoka bar is a veritable temple of whiskey with over 3,000 bottles
If not for a long-lost article extolling the virtues of Wild Turkey in the late 1980s, Yu Sumiyoshi might never have discovered whiskey. But a well-placed feature caught the 19-year-old Yu's attention and, after receiving his monthly salary, he headed to the city of Fukuoka's notorious Oyafukodori to find a bar that would serve him the mysterious liquor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 29, 2017
Tokyo's hotel bars a cut above when it comes to lunch
Some bars, it turns out, have split personalities. In the evening they are a place to relax with a drink and chat with friends. But a few transform in the day, taking on new atmospheres and giving entirely different impressions.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 1, 2017
S'accapau: Modern Italian dining bar fare with flair
Beware of basement dining bars with neon signs, dim lighting and moody music. All too often they deliver style with little substance and menus that titillate but fail to deliver. Thankfully, there are a few exceptions. In Nishi-Azabu, one of the best is S'accapau.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
May 13, 2017
Brut Wine Bar pop-up brings taste of Israel to Tokyo
On a cool afternoon in mid-April, Israeli chefs Yair Yosefi and Omer Ben-Gal, co-founders of Brut Wine Bar in Tel Aviv, examine a shipment of fresh silver-skinned sawara (Spanish mackerel) from Tottori Prefecture in a tiny kitchen on Cat Street — in the middle of Tokyo's bustling Harajuku neighborhood.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 22, 2017
Monk-run Tokyo bar proffers drinks even as it teaches Buddhism
Drinking at your neighborhood bar would appear to be inconsistent with a Buddhist's quest for clarity of mind and enlightenment.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 17, 2017
Champagne & Gyoza Bar: A fine new pairing in the backstreets of Akasaka
It's gyōza time. These 1½-bite pan-fried dumplings — crisp and brown underneath, moist and meaty inside — may have their roots in China, but they're as deeply embedded in Japanese hearts and the daily diet as ramen and chahan (fried rice).
JAPAN / Society
Nov 17, 2016
Bar association urges AirAsia X to apologize over 2014 wheelchair incident
Japan's bar association is urging a Malaysian low-cost carrier to apologize to a Japanese man with disabilities after it refused to check-in his electric wheelchair, eventually causing him to miss his flight at Kansai airport.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 3, 2016
Residents want park where 47 ronin buried; man passes bar exam after 17 failures; birth rate drops due to superstition; USS Independence arrives
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 1, 2016
Japanese lawyers criticize proposed conspiracy bill
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations has said it opposes an effort by the government to criminalize conspiracy.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 3, 2016
Leach Bar inherits spirit of Japanese folk art
At the Rihga Royal Hotel in the city of Osaka, there is a bar designed by British potter Bernard Leach, who is known for having played a key role in the mingei (folk craft) movement in the late 1920s and '30s.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 1, 2016
Stand up Nihonbashi, you've got a new Fujiya Honten
Fujiya Honten didn't invent the concept of the "stand bar" — the Japanese term for casual eating and drinking (usually wine rather than sake) with no frills or seating — but it's come as close to perfecting it as anywhere in Tokyo. The original in Shibuya remains immensely popular. Now the same idea and laid-back expertise have arrived in the east side of the city.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 13, 2016
Give me chocolate: Japan's growing obsession with the 'food of the gods'
People with a sweet tooth can get a glimpse of how Charlie Bucket felt when he first stepped into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory in Roald Dahl's popular 1964 tale by popping into Musee du Chocolat Theobroma in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 24, 2015
Ex-professor gets suspended term over bar exam leak to ex-lover
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced a former Meiji University law school professor to a year in prison, suspended for five years, for leaking this year's bar exam questions to a female graduate under his tutelage who he used to date.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 16, 2015
Monthly 'monk bar' event in Mie offers sermons as well as food and drinks
In a restaurant in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, a monthly "monk bar" event is taking place where customers wine and dine with Buddhist clerics and let their guard down. In attendance are about 30 people aged in their 20s to 70s.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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