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LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 1, 2018

At Ikoyi, Philosopher-chef Jeremy Chan gets to the core of deliciousness

The word 'intense' is frequently used by friends and colleagues to describe Jeremy Chan, the 31-year-old philosopher-chef behind restaurant Ikoyi, which serves global interpretations of West African cuisine in the center of London.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 1, 2018

Wana Tedome: Partake in a feast on the wild side

Wana Tedome doesn't mess with any ordinary meat. "Deer, not cow. Boar, not pig," the illuminated street-level sign outside proclaims in Japanese. "Grilled venison, grilled boar and grilled pheasant."
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BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2018

Faced with Japan's changing habits and demographics, delivery firm Sagawa looks to diversify

Sagawa delivery driver Keisuke Kawabe has seen the video that went viral on the internet two years ago of one of his colleagues smashing up parcels out of frustration that the customer wasn't home, and he doesn't approve.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 24, 2018

Mellow Habanero: Award-winning hot sauce from an unlikely corner of Japan

In 2002, a fateful encounter with habaneroson the Okinawa island of Ishigaki first sparked Taku Kondo's interest in the pepper. Now, Kondo cultivates 1,800 habanero plants to make his award-winning range of organic hot sauces, which are sold under the Mellow Habanero label.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Nov 24, 2018

Mizuho Takemura: Whimsical, easygoing charm

A Peu Pres in Kyoto is decidedly not the kind of French restaurant with starched white linens: Instead, it has a whimsical easygoing charm. And chef Mizuho Takemura's take on French food is wholesome, without fanfare or drama.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 24, 2018

Pheasant's Tears: Preserving Georgia's wine tradition

On Dec. 1 and 2, John Wurdeman will visit Japan with a group of Georgian wine producers to participate in the first Tokyo edition of Rootstock, Sydney's popular natural wine festival. He's not sure if they will sing, but one thing is certain: There will be no shortage of viniferous magic.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 22, 2018

Experience a delightful party of berries

A berry happy new year is just around the corner. Strawberry season is coming up fast, and Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo is celebrating with a springtime lunch buffet featuring 22 varieties of fresh strawberry delicacies.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Nov 19, 2018

Government to urge companies to curb use of microplastics

New measures are being taken to help clean our seas, but are they too little too late?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Nov 18, 2018

Exports of Fukushima-brand alcohol hit record in fiscal 2017

Exports of sake, liquor and other alcoholic beverages produced in Fukushima Prefecture reached a record high of about 296,000 liters in fiscal 2017.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 18, 2018

Computers may reshape jobs, but they won't eliminate them

Take predictions that artificial intelligence and robots will cause massive unemployment in the future with a grain of salt.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 17, 2018

Yuu: Relaxed kappō dining worth crossing town for

It is not hard to track down the very best of Tokyo's high-end Japanese restaurants. After all, there are plenty of guides and websites to point you on your way. At street level, too, it's easy to locate good noodle joints, yakitori counters or mom and pop diners. Navigating the middle ground, though,...
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 15, 2018

Christmas lunch buffet awash in pink decadence

Pink pastries and jewelry boxes may not evoke the most classic of Christmas imagery, but who's to say things can't get a little creative sometimes? In the spirit of giving girly girls what they really want this season, Hilton Tokyo Odaiba Hotel happily presents its Girls' Sweets Coffret Christmas Dessert...
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 15, 2018

A Chinese tailwind for Japan's economy?

The Chinese government has reversed its previously chilly attitude and now favors better relations with Japan, creating new economic opportunities for Japanese businesses.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Nov 14, 2018

I feared the crush of the rush, but now my commute completes me

Everybody knows that it is hard to make a good living from writing alone. However, every aspiring writer I've met has thought they might end up as that one-in-a-million exception to the rule. Most learn the hard truth in their 20s, but some have to get to their late 40s, like me.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2018

Some rising prices should be taken with a grain of salt

For the first time in almost three decades the Salt Industry Center of Japan has announced it will raise the price on many of its products by around 15 percent, indicating inflation has finally arrived in at least some industries.
Japan Times
SUMO
Nov 12, 2018

Sumo 101: Chanko

Sumo wrestlers don't eat before training.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2018

Workers complain of unbearable foul smells at new Toyosu market

Workers at the new Toyosu wholesale food market in Tokyo are having to hold their noses as disgusting stenches, mainly of fish, have started to emanate from some locations in the site.
Japan Times
Spain report 2018
Nov 12, 2018

Felix Solis Avantis raises a glass to Japan’s healthy wine market

Founded in 1952 by Felix Solis Fernandez, Felix Solis Avantis is recognized internationally as an award-winning, high-quality and competitive Spanish wine producer. 
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 8, 2018

Japan leaves no stone unturned as it prepares to cushion blow from Abe's 2019 sales tax hike to 10%

With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe determined to increase the sales tax next year, the government is testing public reaction to a string of potential measures to ensure people keep spending.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 8, 2018

Be it lunch or dinner, Thanksgiving feasts await

The Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi is offering a Thanksgiving feast from Nov. 19 to 22 at its Motif Restaurant & Bar where guests can enjoy a panoramic view of the bustling Tokyo cityscape from the seventh-floor restaurant.
EDITORIALS
Nov 6, 2018

Coming to grips at last with Japan's labor shortage

If the Abe administration wants to woo more foreign workers to Japan it should foster an environment that will attract them.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 5, 2018

To what extent will Japan's 2014 downturn repeat with the new tax hike?

The wallets of Japanese residents may get a little lighter next year, as the prices of most goods and services are set to rise under a new consumption tax system starting in October 2019.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 5, 2018

Faced with worker shortage, Japan reshapes its legendary hospitality

Japan's capital expenditure boom is shifting to the services sector, stirring fears that self-checkout systems and software will take the human touch out of omotenashi, the country's vaunted commitment to hospitality.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 3, 2018

Breaking down barriers: The challenge of getting around Tokyo in a wheelchair

Gaining a first-hand insight into what is needed to create universal access in Tokyo in time for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 3, 2018

Toridoki: Old-school yakitori near new Toyosu market

There are plenty of reasons to mourn the closure of Tsukiji's legendary wholesale market, and many more to bemoan its successor in Toyosu. Not least is the dearth of good, established restaurants out on that sterile landfill location.
EDITORIALS
Nov 3, 2018

Cut back on disposable plastic

The government is finally tackling Japan's outsized production and consumption of single-use plastic product.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 31, 2018

From 'cardboard nannies' to 'fruit money': fast-paced Hong Kong slow to adapt to its elderly

At the Tanner Hill apartments in Hong Kong, the residents — all aged 60-plus — are enjoying the ancient Chinese tile game of mahjong along with some bite-sized delicacies, dimsum, at one of the on-site restaurants.

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