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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE

Jun 19, 2009

Simple seafood and a fish shack

By Robbie Swinnerton

"Meet you at the fish shack in Meguro!" It was a suggestion, a rendezvous, an invitation to check out a new restaurant. But more than anything, in these days of straitened economics, it was an offer we couldn't refuse.

LIFE / Style & Design

Jun 18, 2009

The safety nets for would-be suicides

By Tomoko Otake

Every time the National Police Agency comes out with new suicide statistics, media reports tend to focus on the fact that the annual suicide count has reached a new high or has topped the psychologically significant 30,000 threshold for yet another year. (The latest figure available was 32,249 in 2008.)...

LIFE / Style & Design

Jun 18, 2009

Forget the suicide stereotype

By Kris Kosaka

Now that spring has dissolved into the sticky humidity of rainy season, now that go gatsu byo — "May sickness" — has melted away along with the memory of the cherry blossoms, perhaps it is time to wash away one of the most pervasive stereotypes of Japan, its dubious status as a "suicide nation."...

LIFE / Language / KANJI CLINIC

Jun 17, 2009

The crafty names of Japan's cleverest companies

By Mary Sisk Noguchi

Fortune magazine's list of the world's top 500 earners for 2008 included 64 Japanese companies. The English names of these global giants are used in both the international and domestic markets. But Japanese versions of each also exist. To cook up these, the enterprises had at hand the sumptuous ingredients...

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LIFE / Digital / IGADGET

Jun 17, 2009

A new, faster generation of wireless Internet

By Peter Crookes

Maximum range: WiMax is a form of wireless Internet that operates in much the same way as Wi-Fi, but offers greater range, in theory up to 40 km from a central transmitter, and faster speeds than its sibling. It is also just starting in Japan, whereas Wi-Fi is ubiquitous. As part of a concerted push...

LIFE / Style & Design

Jun 14, 2009

Scholars worldwide react to planned National Center for Media Arts

By Edan Corkill

Proponents of the National Center for Media Arts argue that it will help foreign researchers examining Japan's popular culture. The Japan Times asked prominent scholars from overseas their thoughts on the proposed facility.

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LIFE

Jun 14, 2009

Is a national 'Manga Museum' at last set to get off the ground?

By Edan Corkill

When it was announced in April that ¥11.7 billion had been set aside in 2009's supplementary budget to create a new National Center for Media Arts (NCMA) — a museum for manga, anime, video games and technology art — the news was greeted in the same way that most cultural-policy issues are in Japan....

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LIFE / Travel

Jun 14, 2009

Oranges and felons

By Chris Bamforth

The 19th-century Scottish novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson got it spot on about traveling when he noted that to do so hopefully was a better thing than arriving.

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LIFE

Jun 14, 2009

New university library puts focus on the fans

By Patrick W. Galbraith

Perhaps no single cultural product is held more dear in Japan than manga. It was a dominant form of pulp entertainment in the early post-World War II period, a forum for social dissent in the 1960s, then for female creativity in the '70s. By the '80s, manga was at the center of a mass market that outstripped...

LIFE / Food & Drink

Jun 12, 2009

Riesling with Japanese food makes for a marvelous match

By Felicity Hughes

With their high acidity and sugar levels, Rieslings are the perfect wines to pair with Japanese cuisine. Mami Whelehan, a manager at public-relations firm Pieroth Japan, who regularly lectures in Japan on wine-food matching, spoke to The Japan Times about how to combine Rieslings with Japanese food....

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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS

Jun 12, 2009

Four Seasons celebrates fireflies

The historic Chinzan-so garden in Mejiro, Tokyo, has celebrated fireflies as a gift of summer since 1954. To coincide with the firefly season, from late May to late July, The Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so is holding a variety of culinary fairs.

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LIFE / Food & Drink

Jun 12, 2009

Sip away from it all with modern German Rieslings

By Felicity Hughes

With stifling summer temperatures just around the corner, many of us will be yearning to head for cooler climes. But if you can't escape just now, the mineral sharpness and cerebral acidity of a German Riesling might be just the ticket to help you weather the oppressive heat.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.

Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go

By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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