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Battling 'fatbergs': Tokyo's sewers get an upgrade so they can keep on flowing
In September last year, a monster was discovered in London's sewers. Weighing about 130 metric tons and measuring 250 meters in length — longer than the city's Tower Bridge — a congealed mass of fat, oil, wet tissues, condoms and diapers was found blocking a ...
Tokyo named world's best city outside U.S. for third year in row in Conde Nast magazine poll
Tokyo has been chosen as the world's best big city outside the United States for the third year in a row, the U.S. travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler said Tuesday. Readers cast more than 420,000 votes for their favorite cities in the 2018 poll, the ...
Banking on the riverside alleyways of Komagata
Venerated establishments and new shops putting their own spin on traditional food and craft exist side by side in Tokyo's aquatic Komagata neighborhood.
Plan to build airport on Japan's Ogasawara island chain advances but hurdles remain
Expectations are growing among residents of the Ogasawara Islands, an archipelago of over 30 subtropical islands some 1,000 km south of central Tokyo, that their long-awaited dream of having an airport may soon become a reality. The outlook for a possible airport has improved since ...
Tokyo's Toshima Ward adds artistic touch to public lavatories to enhance user-friendliness
Dilemma: You are in a public park in Tokyo and you desperately need the toilet. You think about holding on until you can find a convenience store, but you realize time is against you. You accept your fate and approach the dimly lit lavatory with some ...
'Avatar robot' cafe opens up new job opportunities to ALS patients
This November, a cafe will open in Akasaka, Tokyo, where customers will be served by "avatar robots" controlled remotely by severely handicapped employees.
When planning a weekend in Tokyo, be ready to accept defeat: It is simply not possible to see everything. Tokyo remains the largest city on the planet with a metropolitan area that is home to some 38 million people. It is defined by this vast ...
Rest, weary Japan traveler, and read this riveting 'ishibumi'
Much can be gleaned from memorials and markers erected at roadsides and elsewhere in Japan to commemorate people or mark events.
Bolivian-born Noemi Inoue felt it was necessary to naturalize to feel fully integrated in Japanese society and to become the first non-Japan-born person to serve as a city councilor in Tokyo's Sumida Ward.
Japan according to Don Maloney: Still amusing and relevant, mostly, 40 years on
Irreverent accounts of an American businessman in the 1970s in Tokyo hold up surprisingly well today.
Don Maloney's 'Never the Twain...?' Japan Times column: some choice cuts from the 1970s
Some excerpts from Don Maloney's "Japan: It's not all Raw Fish" (1975) and "Son of Raw Fish" (1977) collections of Japan Times columns.
Tokyo Gov. Koike again skips tribute to Koreans murdered after 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake
For the second consecutive year, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has failed to pay tribute at an annual ceremony for the Koreans murdered in the chaos that followed the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, despite criticism from civic groups that organize the event. The event Saturday to ...
