Roppongi

The world's second museum dedicated to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang will open in Tokyo's Roppongi shopping and entertainment district in March for a period of 2½ years, according to Sony Creative Products Inc., the comic strip's exclusive agent ...

"On any given evening, you can see noisy quarrels between club staff and customers outside the local police box," attorney Katsuyuki Aoshima tells Asahi Geino (May 2), adding, "The police treat these as civil claims between the shop and the customer, and won't get ...

Blue Bottle Coffee Inc., a U.S. coffee chain dubbed by some the "Apple of coffee," is considering expanding further in Japan, according to the company's founder and CEO. James Freeman, who heads the chain known for using fresh beans within 48 hours of roasting, said ...

if you are touted in Roppongi, do not waste your time reporting it to the police. You will be in for a very humiliating experience, as I discovered recently.

Even if you don't care for the nightclubs, rowdy bars and other delights of the Roppongi scene, Caipirinha Bar is one of those rare places that doesn't give off that general "Roppongi" feel that leads some patrons to take their drinking elsewhere. The bar, ...

Name: Bernd Haag Age: 52 Nationality: German Occupation: Beer pub owner Likes: Sports, reading a book on a trip, my business 1. What first brought you to Japan? My profession — few German beer pubs existed in Japan 20 years ago. I was also in love with a ...

Home to numerous shopping areas, nightclubs and bars, Roppongi is probably not the first place you would think off when you want to experience some traditional Japanese culture. But despite its reputation, the district has a traditional side and its own Obon holiday event. The ...

The rules that apply to "stop and frisk" questioning are set down in the Police Duties Execution Act of 1948, but since the clauses are ambiguous and contradictory, there have been a lot of arguments about the legal limits on this kind of behavior,

Art needn't be strictly visual. That's how Katsuhiko Hibino sees things. The artist once again serves as artistic director for this year's Roppongi Art Night, which begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday and runs straight through until 6 p.m. on Sunday. Moving beyond the visual, Hibino ...