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Nordic cooking, Japanese bounty: Strong Noma current runs through new Tokyo restaurant Inua
The culinary thread running from Greenland to Copenhagen and thence to Hokkaido and the rest of Japan may not be immediately obvious. But those are some of the key points on the line of inspiration behind a new restaurant that will open in Tokyo ...
Singapore remains the world's most expensive city for the fifth consecutive year, with Paris, Zurich and Hong Kong following closely behind, according to the Worldwide Cost of Living Survey published on Thursday. Low inflation meant Tokyo — the most expensive city until 2013 — dropped ...
Danish drug dealer carrying 1,000 joints confuses police car for taxi
A drug dealer carrying a large amount of cannabis got into a police car in Copenhagen after mistaking it for a taxi, Danish police said. "Last night a cannabis dealer from Christiana, rushing to get home, got into a taxi. He got a big surprise ...
Every Dane knows of Norrebro, the Copenhagen neighborhood where police shot dead the gunman suspected of carrying out shocking attacks on a synagogue and a cultural center hosting a free speech event. Once blighted by protests as well as gang warfare, the area is now ...
Thousands march through Copenhagen as city mourns terror victims
Thousands of people marched through Copenhagen in freezing winds to remember the victims of a weekend shooting that police say may have been an attempt to copy the massacre at Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The memorial was held near the site of the first attack, ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has told his Danish counterpart that the fatal shootings in Copenhagen that targeted people debating free speech deserved "strong condemnation," the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. "I feel great anger over contemptible terrorist acts attacking the freedom of expression and different values. ...
Danish police shot and killed a man early Sunday who likely carried out shooting attacks at a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen that left two people dead. Investigator Joergen Skov told reporters that "nothing at this point suggests there were other perpetrators" ...
Redzepi: 'I think the restaurant staff in Japan are some of the best on Earth'
Last year, while still only halfway through the extensive planning process, Noma chef Rene Redzepi sat down with The Japan Times in the extensive test kitchen above his Copenhagen waterfront restaurant and outlined his reasons and vision for Noma in Japan. You're closing your Copenhagen ...
