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LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Feb 13, 2017

Let's discuss bans on smoking

The health ministry is considering a legal revision banning smoking in public areas to help bring Japan's battle against secondhand smoke in line with the global standard ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2017

Health ministry gears up for possible ban on smoking in public areas

The health ministry is considering a legal revision to ban smoking in public areas to help bring the nation's policy on secondhand smoke in line with global standards ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Jan 13, 2017

Gi Han Ebisu Do: a window on Japanese-inflected dim sum

Restaurateur and chef Yoshiyuki Gi has spent a lifetime working in Chinese restaurants. He grew up in the kitchen of his parent's eatery in Yokohama's Chinatown before working his way through Chinese restaurants in Japan and onto China. When he returned to Japan, he settled in Kyoto and opened upscale...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 16, 2016

Argile: A gourmet sanctuary above the streets of Ginza

Is there any Tokyo neighborhood more focused on dining than Ginza? Its nine compact blocks house the greatest concentration of high-end restaurants in the country — quite possibly the whole world. But when it comes to quality cuisine at somewhat more affordable prices, the area has less to offer. All...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jul 7, 2016

Stay cool in the pool this summer; new menus offers refreshing dishes; breezes and barbecue by the bay

Stay cool in the pool this summer
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Mar 11, 2016

Miyako Yasai Kamo Nasu: All the locally grown vegetables you can eat

Miyako Yasai Kamo Nasu — a mouthful if ever there was one — is a chain of buffet restaurants offering all-you-can-eat vegetables for breakfast (¥490), lunch (¥880) and dinner (¥1,350).
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Oct 21, 2015

Tokyo can feel less than welcoming to food allergy sufferers

Japan needs to improve labeling and education surrounding food allergies, and increase allergen-safe options.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 14, 2015

Mori no Butchers: Juicy, grilled meats and homemade sausages

The sizzle of steak on the grill, the clink of wine glasses and the buzz of contented conversation — slide open the door of Mori no Butchers and your ears will reassure you that you're in the right place as fast as your nose will.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 10, 2015

World's top chefs swap lives and restaurants for a day

Afternoon turns to evening in Tokyo's plush Aoyama district. At Narisawa, one of the city's finest contemporary French restaurants, the final preparations are being made for dinner service. There is both tension and anticipation in the air as the first customers arrive.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2015

U.S. bird flu outbreak claims 45 million chickens, turkeys; egg prices crack record

With the worst-ever U.S. outbreak of bird flu leaving almost 45 million dead chickens and turkeys, egg costs are climbing to records.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 17, 2015

Masa's Kitchen 47 defies stereotypes with bold take on Chinese cuisine

Gleaming white tableware, understated decor and not a single dragon or red lantern in sight: Masa's Kitchen 47 boldly defies the stereotype for Chinese restaurants in Tokyo. Which is just as it should be. So does the food.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 6, 2015

Ringing in the new year with some old favorites

What better way to start the New Year than by looking back? After all, how can we move ahead if we don't know the past? Here are five classic Tokyo ryoriya (restaurants) where tradition rules and the roots of today's food culture live on.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 16, 2014

Pirouette, Craft Beer Market and more: some great new openings in Tokyo in 2014

The festive season is upon us, and 2015 beckons. But before we move on, herded into the Year of the Sheep, it's time to pause, celebrate and give thanks for the abundance of fine eating over the past 12 months.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2014

Russian restaurateurs wrangle with food import ban

Moscow's sweeping sanctions on European food have sent Russian restaurateurs, retail chains and food producers scrambling for alternative supplies and bracing for Soviet-style shortages.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 15, 2014

Sakana no Nakasei: One of three great Tokyo restaurants for aged beef

Tokyo's taste for high-end meat is maturing fast. For the cognoscenti, breed, provenance and fat content have long been critical. Now add one more key factor: aging. That's the focus at several new venues.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Jul 8, 2014

Aoi-jaya: Traditional Japanese cuisine without the traditional price tag

A combination of train delays and the restaurant I had intended to eat at closing earlier than advertised meant that I had to find a replacement on the hoof. Fortunately, I was in the Isetan department store in Kyoto Station. The top two floors are given over to restaurants: the 10th floor to mostly...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 3, 2014

Kagura: Refined traditional dining minus the airs and graces

Akasaka's restaurants are an eclectic mix. Cheek-by-jowl with the raucous pubs, ramen counters and Korean kimchee kitchens, you find inscrutable anonymous facades, many of them exclusive ryōtei (traditional restaurants) reserved for politicians and captains of industry.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 20, 2014

Spa retreat in Hakone, The Oak Door wine cellar, Osaka Restaurants Week

Spa retreat in Hakone From March 1, the Odakyu Hotel de Yama in the resort area of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, will offer an accommodation package featuring a spa treatment to help rejuvenate bodies worn down by the cold weather.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Dec 5, 2013

Satisfy that sweet tooth with a limitless pick of the trolley

Nothing beats a great dessert at the end of a memorable meal — and never more so than when you're out for a yearend splurge. Many high-end restaurants offer double the pleasure, laying on two sweet courses, or even three if you count the chocolates and other tidbits served with your coffee.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 2, 2013

Hankyu Hanshin scandal is a by-product of the media's food fetishization

As with every food mislabeling furor, the point in the Hankyu Hanshin scandal isn't necessarily that people are eating bad-tasting or unsafe food, but that their pretensions have been exposed.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 31, 2013

Smokehouse: Harajuku lures foodies to the smoked BBQ pit

Low and slow: The much-loved mantra of American barbecue culture is more than just a slogan. It's an attitude, a badge of pride in a way of cooking and eating that's still little known to people here in Japan. If Smokehouse has anything to do with it, that situation looks set to change in a big way....
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 15, 2013

Light bites of every flavor in Tokyo

Tokyo has seen more and more restaurants recently open with the express purpose of offering casual, light bites, rather than elaborate full-course meals. Close to home is fine, as long as we can nibble and graze, ordering a dish or two at a time, and interspersing food with drink and conversation till...
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 8, 2013

Eat yourself broke at Grand Front Osaka

You've gotta love a city whose primary motivation is to accumulate wealth then promptly squander it through the time-honored pursuit of kuidaore (eating oneself to bankruptcy). Now, with the opening of the massive Grand Front Osaka commercial, residential and entertainment complex on the north side of...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 5, 2013

Akasaka Kikunoi: Tastes of old Kyoto in Tokyo's bustling heart

A pair of ornamental cherry trees stand like attendants by a sturdy wooden gateway. A narrow flagstone path lined with bamboo and maples curves out of sight in the mid-distance.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 3, 2012

Restaurant Week offers meal deals across Japan

In the relentless heat of summer in Japan, it is often hard to generate the appetite and energy for a full-course sit-down meal. But there's far more incentive to head out for dinner (or lunch) at a top restaurant if you know you'll be getting a bargain.

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