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LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 6, 2015

The ethical butcher of Paris brings his beef to Tokyo

Being a butcher is hardly a glamorous job in any country — unless you are Hugo Desnoyer. No ordinary meat merchant, his business in Paris counts numerous Michelin-starred chefs among its customers, including Pierre Gagnaire, Alain Passard and Pascal Barbot.
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BASEBALL / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Nov 3, 2015

Visit to Cooperstown brings back memories of youth

Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 30, 2015

Reopened restaurants; SMAP leader's sports knowledge; CM of the week: Jetstar

Ninety percent of the restaurants that open in Japan go out of business within five years. It's tough, so those that survive must have something special. This week's "Nichiyo Big Variety" ("Sunday Big Variety"; TV Tokyo, Sun., 7:54 p.m.) is about "famous restaurants" that have gone out of business for...
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Oct 28, 2015

Japan tricks out the Halloween treats

Halloween is a time to carve pumpkins, enjoy a few scares and, most importantly, shovel as much candy as humanly possible into one’s own mouth. While the practice of door-to-door trick-or-treating may not be a thing in Japan, the custom of eating special Halloween snacks certainly translates. Plenty...
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BUSINESS / TOKYO MOTOR SHOW 2015
Oct 28, 2015

New sports concept from Mazda

Mazda Motor Corp. will hold the world premiere of a new sports car concept at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show. A total of 14 models will be on display at the Mazda booth, including the crossover concept Mazda KOERU making its first appearance in Japan, two racing-spec Mazda Roadsters (known as Mazda MX-5 outside...
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JAPAN / Society / EXPLAINER
Oct 26, 2015

Plan to hire more foreign housekeepers no easy chore, say industry players

The role of housekeepers has come under the spotlight as the government looks to them to provide working mothers with help at home as one way to prop up the nation's dwindling workforce.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2015

Japan's so-called visa overstayers tell of life in legal limbo

Eight children petition the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau for clemency to allow their families to stay in the country so they can continue their lives.
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Places
Oct 23, 2015

Halloween events in Japan 2015

Halloween in Japan ... can it get any bigger or crazier. Thanks to a perfect storm of cosplay and consumerism, Japan's major cities have embraced the Western holiday in a big way over the past five years. And this list of Halloween events in Tokyo and elsewhere is just the tip of the big orange iceberg.
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CULTURE / Film
Oct 21, 2015

Androids and the avant-garde: The best Japanese films screening at TIFF

The Tokyo International Film Festival offers a once-a-year chance to see Japanese movies, both new and classic, with English subtitles. Getting tickets, however, especially for the films in the Competition and Special Screenings sections, may not be easy. With that caveat, here are my personal picks...
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LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
Oct 20, 2015

Sharp dials up the fan service to celebrate 20 years of 'Evangelion'

For those who have always dreamed of owning an Evangelion robot, this might be the closest you get.
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 20, 2015

Monet's experiments meet his masterpieces

To anyone familiar with art exhibitions in Japan, it is clear that Impressionism is one of the most well-known and most-loved of all the "isms" and movements of Western art. The name of the movement is believed to have come from a 1872 painting by Claude Monet titled "Impression, Sunrise." When it was...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2015

The perverse rise of autonomous killer robots

By allowing killer robots to make life-and death decisions we remove people's responsibility for their actions and eliminate accountability.
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JAPAN / HOTEL SPECIAL 2015
Oct 16, 2015

Grand Hyatt serves best of autumn harvest

Grand Hyatt Tokyo is offering autumn menus at all of its restaurants, featuring a colorful lineup of dishes for guests to enjoy the harvest season with family and friends.
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 14, 2015

Opposition contests chaotic Upper House vote, assails LDP for amending record of events

Was the vote valid?
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JAPAN
Oct 9, 2015

Hungarian diplomat wins top prize in annual photo competition

Familiar looking landscapes offering a taste of old Japan's hidden and harmonious coexistence with the modern era exemplify the theme of this year's "Japan Through Diplomats' Eyes" annual photo competition.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2015

How an Iranian in Moscow plotted Russia's assault on Syrian rebels

At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President Bashar Assad could be turned into victory — with Russia's help.
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BASEBALL / MLB / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Oct 6, 2015

Baseball legend Berra made unforgettable impression

One of the cool things about being an elder statesman (i.e. old coot) in the sports columnist/ TV announcer biz is that, over time, you get to conduct a ton of interviews with prominent figures in the toy department of life.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Oct 2, 2015

Take a bite out of Miffy on her 60th birthday at this Harajuku cafe

Miffy, the rabbit character from a famous children's book, celebrates her 60th birthday this year. To mark this special occasion, Harajuku's Nicholas House cafe has produced a series of celebratory treats.
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COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 1, 2015

Neither here nor there: Stretched between Nigeria and Japan, family ties fray

This is the last of a two-part series on Japanese-Nigerian families torn between Asia and Africa. The first part can be found here.
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WORLD
Sep 30, 2015

Audacious attack by Taliban tests limits of Afghan security forces

Under cover of darkness, groups of Taliban fighters carrying rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons sneaked through fields and villages toward the northern Afghan city of Kunduz from four directions.
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TENNIS
Sep 26, 2015

Bencic, Radwanska advance to Pan Pacific Open final

Rising Swiss star Belinda Bencic beat Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki on Saturday to storm into the final of the Pan Pacific Open, where she will face Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Sep 25, 2015

Expect an open-air courtyard and some wine when you pull up to the garage

Even though it's called Garage, this eatery is probably better described as a shack. On weekdays, during lunch and after work, the clientele is mostly drawn from the surrounding offices, but on weekends the crowd is not as uniform.
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 24, 2015

Abe aims arrows at new targets with three fresh goals for 'Abenomics,' 20% rise in GDP

The three new economic policy goals include: promotion of economic growth, child-rearing assistance and social security measures to increase nursing facilities for the elderly.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 18, 2015

How Japan compares with America; real footage of kidnappings; CM of the week: Suntory

International travel shows are ratings winners on Japanese TV, even if they betray a provincial view of the world. "Sekai Itte Mitara: Honto wa Konna Toko Datta?" ("Try and See the World; Is It Really Like This?"; Fuji TV, Tues., 7 p.m.) is one of the most popular, but it's going off the air and the...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2015

Upcoming session will decide the U.N.'s future

The 70th commemorative session of the General Assembly, which begins next week, should be an occasion for providing much-needed hope that the world organization can remain relevant in the coming decades.

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