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CAFE

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LIFE / Food & Drink / THE KIDS' TABLE
Nov 25, 2014
Grab a patio lunch before winter arrives
Nothing spells fall like a pile of leaves just waiting to be jumped in, especially for children or those who are still kids at heart. Add to that a steaming hot beverage and some scrumptious eats, and a perfect fall afternoon is born.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Oct 10, 2014
J-blip: Cornered by strong men and sweet pudding at 'kabe-don' cafe
Live out your 'kabe-don' fantasy with Morinaga's suave silicone man.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Aug 26, 2014
Standard Bookstore: Something to drink, something to read
If you want to know how a country thinks or is titillated, a bookstore is a good place to start. Combine this with a cup of coffee and you could call it a day, or just a lunch break. Bookstores and coffee shops are a natural fit, even if, like me, you mostly resort to looking at pictures in magazines.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 20, 2014
Firms in Japan wake up to merits of siestas
Some Japanese companies appear to be embracing the wisdom of the old adage "sound sleep, sound mind," by letting their workers enjoy a short snooze during office hours.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 19, 2014
Would you like a goat, owl or rabbit with your latte?
Following on from the popularity of "cat cafes," where customers can play with resident felines while relaxing and having a cup of coffee, similar venues offering the chance to mingle with rabbits, goats and even owls have opened for business in the Tokyo area.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
May 23, 2014
Farm life leads to healthy business for Dutch expat
Outdoorsy expatriate lured by the beauty of Hokkaido sets up in Niseko. Sound familiar?
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
May 13, 2014
Café Indépendants
You don't have to be hip to enter Café Indépendants, but it helps. Located in the basement of the old Mainichi Shimbun Kyoto bureau, Indépendants is the kind of cafe frequented by the artsy set. There is a version of this cafe in every city all over the world. In Cork, where I grew up, that cafe was mostly populated by skaters, goths and loners working on the 50th draft of their first novel. In Kyoto, Indépendants is staffed by models and artists between jobs and frequented in the main by college students.
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JAPAN
Apr 10, 2014
Cat cafe wins them over in London
People like coffee and people love cats, so together they make the paws that refresh at a London cat cafe that is so popular it's booked out until June.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2014
Ehime resident hopes to heal with island cafe
A man from Ehime Prefecture opened a cafe last May on a tiny uninhabited island near the city of Matsuyama, in what he described as an attempt to bring one of his favorite childhood haunts back to life.
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JAPAN
Sep 26, 2013
Cafes, hotels power up to draw 'nomad workers'
Cafe chains and hotels are adapting to the growing population of "nomad workers" using mobile devices to work outside the office.
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JAPAN
Sep 11, 2013
Bid to shift libraries to social spaces turns page on stale bookworm image
A new library that opened in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, in April is not an ivory tower of books, but an innovative attempt to boost liquor sales and interest in libraries themselves.
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CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 16, 2013
Inside Nazo Tomo Cafe
What awaits visitors to the pop-up puzzle cafe in Shibuya? Read the details of our hands-on experience!
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Apr 27, 2013
Trendsetting restauranteurs succeed in bringing bit of Bohemia to Osaka
You're in a breezy, open space, bathed in light. Frothy indoor plants and burnished wood surrounds vibrant splashes of azure. While sipping a "green fairy," that traditional spirit of artists around the world, someone passes you a shisha, or water pipe, and you inhale sweet, fruit-soaked tobacco. You could be anywhere along the Mediterranean Sea, from Greece to Israel to Morocco, but you're not. You're in Cafe Absinthe in Osaka and your host is Russian Dmitri Farberov.
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LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Mar 1, 2013
Qusca: a good place to nap on the job
People fall asleep everywhere in Tokyo, but this cafe is actually made for it.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Mar 1, 2013
Tea and cakes, the British way
'I am not very fond of sugar and sweet things, and yet I became a pastry chef.' The story of British pu00e2tissiu00e8re Rose Carrarini, whose quote adorns the wall in the growing number of cafe-bakeries that bear her name, is an eye-opener on many levels.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Oct 12, 2012
Today's J-blip: Mister Softee in Tokyo
Grab your ice cream money —Mister Softee has arrived in Tokyo.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 18, 2012
Fuglen: Serve yourself at an Oslo import
Just as the daytime staff are trained baristas — and they pull an excellent espresso using their own proprietary roast of beans — the evening crew specialize in mixology.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Oct 28, 2011
Entrepreneurs make Korean ikemen the dish du jour
Cute, young Korean man-flesh is on the menu now, as Tokyo establishments cash in on the continuing hanryu boom.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 10, 2010
Pop in to Tokyo's latest pop-ups
The trend of pop-ups, promoting goods and brands in temporary spaces, shows no signs of slowing down.
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CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Oct 13, 2010
Today's menu: frisky fun rolled in novelty
What will it be today? Granny maids, female sushi chefs or imported Hooters?

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