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Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jan 20, 2020
Handmade in Japan with love
From horizontal vases to panty-clad glasses, Japan's handmade market can offer some extraordinary gift ideas for Valentine's Day.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KONBINI WATCH
Nov 30, 2019
Lawson's bread buns are going to the dogs
Lawson has tapped into its creative side for recent animal-shaped bread offerings both sweet and savory.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Women of Taste
Oct 12, 2019
In Oiso, Lee Utsumi's organic bakery is on the rise
After a transformative bread-tasting experience in California, Lee Utsumi knew she wanted to become a baker and now runs her own natural bakery, Lee's Bread, in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 22, 2019
Frau Krumm: Redefining German bread in Tokyo
A longtime love of bread inspired former professional tennis player Kimiko Date to open Frau Krumm, a German bread bakery in Tokyo's chic Ebisu neighborhood.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 9, 2019
The meteoric rise of Nogami's fluffy shokupan
Founded by Yuji Sakagami, bread shop Nogami sells about 20,000 loaves of its famous nama shokupan ('fresh' bread) per day, making it one of Japan's most beloved breads. The secret to its success is the texture of its crust.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Dec 8, 2018
Machiko Yamashita: A Japanese breadwinner in Berlin
Former art historian and butoh dancer Machiko Yamashita brings Japanese bread buns to Berliners.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 3, 2018
Vaner: Norwegian-style sourdough rises in Yanaka
The old-school, low-rise district of Yanaka boasts tree-lined streets, temples aplenty, fresh air and a sense of connection with Tokyo's past that has long been paved over elsewhere. What it lacks — and this is a plus, not a minus — is a subway station, with the accompanying bright lights and commercial developments found in other areas of the city.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2018
'God of bread' Philippe Bigot, French baker who popularized baguette in Japan, dies at 76
Philippe Bigot, the French baker credited with introducing the baguette to many Japanese households, died Monday of an unspecified illness, a source said Tuesday. He was 76.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Jul 21, 2018
For chef Shinobu Namae, cutting waste is priority
At cafe Bricolage Bread & Co. and restaurant L'Effervescence, chef Shinobu Namae is finding creative ways to reduce and repurpose food waste.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 16, 2018
Bricolage Bread & Co.: Sourdough bread and tartines on the terrace
It’s the smell that greets you first as you walk through the door at Bricolage Bread & Co.; the warm aroma of baking intermingled with the heady whiff of good coffee. It could hardly feel more alluring — that is, until you see the array of baked goods.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 27, 2017
'Pelican: 74 Years of Japanese Tradition': A bread documentary that isn't half-baked
The first thing a customer will say when they walk into Pelican past lunchtime is: "Any left?" That's how fast loaves sell at this popular Asakusa bakery.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 19, 2017
365 Nichi: Daily bread and baked goods of superior quality
You don't need to understand Japanese to guess the meaning behind 365 Nichi's name. This excellent little bakery has been operating day in, day out, even at new year, ever since it opened in 2013. During that time it has only ever taken one holiday: last year's Leap Day.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Jul 22, 2017
Le Sucre-Couer: Riding the wave of boulangerie culture
We are living through a renaissance for the boulangerie in Japan. In just about every city and town across the country you'll find artisanal bakers making quality baguettes, epi, croissants and pain au chocolat.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Jul 8, 2017
Tentation d'Ange: A vaguely European atmosphere and top-shelf bread
Tentation d'Ange tries hard to channel a little corner of Provence, or somewhere similar where potted flowers are caught up in the tendrils of runnings beans and grass grows among the paved stones to accordion music. It is also at complete odds with the grayness of its surroundings, on another dull residential street in the north of Kyoto. This is a nail that stands out, and may it never be hammered down.
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JAPAN
Apr 28, 2017
Hyogo firm uses sweet buns to teach disabled about product development, sales skills
A bakery and cafe company in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, is working to improve the wages of people with disabilities by offering know-how on product development and sales of sweets.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 8, 2017
A dystopian future set in the present aftermath
With "Homo Sapiens", director Nikolaus Geyrhalter paints a haunting dystopian vision of civilization minus its creators. This unique documentary consists of nothing but steady, perfectly framed wide-shots of abandoned structures and wastelands. Imagine Wes Anderson doing location shots for "The Walking Dead" and you'll be getting warm.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE UNRELIABLE FOOD CRITIC
Apr 15, 2016
Osaka, give us this day our decent European bread
Encountering strangers on trips back to Europe, I find myself falling into a familiar conversational call-and-response:
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 4, 2015
A short history of 'real' bread in Japan
For most of modern history, the Japanese failed to understand the point of the baguette — known locally as furansu pan (French bread) — and shunned the globally coveted Gallic specialty, thinking it was hard and tasteless. Carried by almost every bakery in Tokyo, it was often isolated from the main cast of popular offerings such as sweet pastries and curry pizzas — even in fashionable bakeries like Pompadour and Kobeya. Four or five loaves always remained at closing time while everything else sold out.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / A TASTE OF HOME
Sep 2, 2014
Hankering for the grills and thrills of Greek cuisine
Few things in this world are more pleasurable than sinking your teeth into heavily herbed, charcoal-grilled paidakia, the fabled lamb chops adored and revered by the Greeks.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 16, 2014
Nothing half-baked about this festival
Introduced as a military exercise rather than a staple, bread in Japan has an unusual history.
'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.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
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.

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