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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 3, 2001
Kihachi China moves uptown
When Kihachi China moved a few blocks across Ginza last November, it was not just a change of address -- it signified a definite change of status. The old premises, hidden away behind Printemps, were smart but lightweight. The new restaurant is a mere five minutes' stroll away -- just around the corner from Matsuya's eye-popping, face-lifted facade -- but it represents a definite move into the mainstream.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 27, 2001
A ristorante close to heaven
Arriving at Ca Angeli for the first time, you will be forgiven for wondering which is more important, the kitsch or the kitchen.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 20, 2001
Time to get back to the garden
Can it really be the season for beer gardens again already? Well, not really. But what's the point in waiting, when there are so many perfectly fine evenings at this time of year. Seize the night, we say. And, anyway, we were impatient to revisit our longtime favorite summer drinking spot, the wonderful Hanezawa Garden hidden away in the back streets of upper Hiroo.
CULTURE / Books
May 13, 2001
When the nightmare broke through: "Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche"
UNDERGROUND: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, by Haruki Murakami. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel. Random House, Vintage International; 366 pp., $14.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 13, 2001
Sit back, relax and let life pass you by
Summer's on its way, and none of us need any encouraging to make the most of it. There's no better way to celebrate the onset of the hot weather than with a leisurely lunch in the open air. Nothing too heavy, nothing too complicated -- this is the season to start lightening up the diet, anyway. Here are two little places that fit the bill just right.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 6, 2001
Issei: It might as well be spring
Issei's exterior is almost too picture perfect. The entrance is overhung with thatched eaves. A large white lantern dangles above a complex flower arrangement, and an indigo noren stretches across the rustic sliding wooden door.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 6, 2001
It might as well be spring
Issei's exterior is almost too picture perfect. The entrance is overhung with thatched eaves. A large white lantern dangles above a complex flower arrangement, and an indigo noren stretches across the rustic sliding wooden door.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 29, 2001
The pride of the neighborhood
Mannebiches is the Tokyo neighborhood bistro par excellence. Tucked away, well off the main drag, in a part of town better known for its traditional shitamachi values, it does not trumpet its presence to the city at large. Instead, it is content to serve up first-rate French food without fanfare or pretension for a local populace that yearns to eat out at modest expense without having to dress up and trek downtown.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 22, 2001
Underground Mr. Zoogunzoo: A cave of wonder, down under
Underground Mr. Zoogunzoo has an interior to match its singular name. The walls are daubed with adobe designs, as if decorated by aboriginal dot artists. Light diffuses from opaque lamp shades resembling irregular crystals or the seed pods of an alien life form.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 15, 2001
Yamato: Notes from the underground
Call it the B1 syndrome, if you will, or perhaps the bargain-basement phenomenon. But the sad truth is, you don't dine well at the bottom of a building.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 8, 2001
Meditations on the Tao of soba
For a place that evinces such effusive praise ("one of the best soba shops in the world," says at least one connoisseur), Take-yabu has a remarkably undemonstrative presence. In fact it manages to be so self-effacing, few people realize it's there at all.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 1, 2001
Barraca: A cure for the Andalucian blues
Just recently back in town after a leisurely sojourn in Andalucia and suffering bad withdrawal symptoms, we headed down to cozy old Barraca. It's not the most creative Spanish restaurant in Tokyo, perhaps, nor the best-known. Nor does it operate at anything like those late, late Spanish hours. But for us it's the place that most closely approximates the easy, sunny ambience and great range of foods you find at so many tabernas throughout the south of Spain.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 22, 2001
Islands in the stream of Indian cuisine
It was no accident that led us to Athara Petara -- we always keep an ear to the ground for the latest of good new venues for foods from other parts of Asia. But anyone fortunate enough to stumble upon this friendly little eatery by chance will understand immediately why the word serendipity was coined from the ancient Arab name for the island we know today as Sri Lanka.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 8, 2001
Pizza, extra artistry, hold the delivery
Sometimes the craving strikes and second-best just won't do.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 22, 2001
Sticking to sophisticated yakitori
Yakitori. The term covers a multitude of chicken possibilities, ranging from smoky yatai and stand-up nomiya under the proverbial tracks all the way to plush establishments for Ginza madames where every bird on the menu is reared in free-range bliss, cooked over premium charcoal and washed down with Burgundy sploshed into oversized globes.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 8, 2001
Brash, bright, cheerful and fun
As a matter of principle, the Food File doesn't write up places within the first few weeks of their opening. Instead we prefer to wait until the kitchen has settled in properly and recovered from the inevitable strain of dealing with the local media and the surge of customers that inevitably follow.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 8, 2001
Roti: Brash, bright, cheerful and fun
As a matter of principle, the Food File doesn't write up places within the first few weeks of their opening. Instead we prefer to wait until the kitchen has settled in properly and recovered from the inevitable strain of dealing with the local media and the surge of customers that inevitably follow.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 25, 2001
Isegen: Stoking the inner embers, Edo style
As the snow wafts down and the forecasters warn of arctic conditions to come, spare a thought for the folks of ancient Edo, who had to make it through the winter months without such essential survival tools as fleece jackets, cup ramen and Hokaron hand warmers.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 11, 2001
Taking stock of the new ryori
Before intrepidly setting out to eat our way through this brave new century, let us pause briefly to consider the state of contemporary Japanese dining. Needless to say, the situation is very different from 100 years ago, when most people were fed by itinerant hawkers, yatai stalls or simple food outlets set into houses at street level, and when Yokohama gyu-nabe, omu-raisu and other yoshoku exotica were considered the height of sophisticated dining out.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 28, 2000
Looking back at the future
In honor of that particularly Japanese custom of creating instant tradition ("Since 1999"), this last column of the year peers forward by looking back. Here are just three of the many new places we have visited and enjoyed during the past 12 months but never got around to writing up.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Japan’s record-low children population weighs on growth
The number of children 14 years old or younger fell for the 43rd straight year to around 14.01 million as of April 1.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
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.

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