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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 27, 2012

Conrad Tokyo offers beauty plan

Together with French luxury skin-care brand Orlane Paris, the Conrad Tokyo is offering a special accommodation plan focusing on beauty called "Beauty Hunter Conrad Meets Orlane," throughout 2012.
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JAPAN
Jan 26, 2012

Fight with leukemia reveals marrow-match difficulties

Last January, British national Aidan O'Connor, 46, purchased an old townhouse in the heart of historic Sasayama, a town known for its wild boar cuisine and large chestnuts.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 20, 2012

Special Chinese New Year courses

The Peninsula Tokyo is celebrating the Chinese New Year by offering a special festive six-course lunch as well as dinner at its Chinese restaurant Hei Fung Terrace, through Jan. 31.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2012

U.S. no longer land of the free

Every year, the U.S. State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials and limiting privacy, while Russia has been taken to task for...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 15, 2012

Rigged online food reviews should come as no surprise

NHK has a regular travel series called "Quiz de Go," which sends TV personalities to far-flung corners of Japan and then asks them questions about the area's local qualities. Several weeks ago, three celebrities were exploring Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, and were turned on to a local delicacy called Curry-yaki....
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COMMUNITY
Jan 14, 2012

Globe-trekker devotes self to kids needing special attention

German Birgit Zorb-Serizawa has lived and worked on four continents in her career in special education, and she has spent many years providing opportunities and support for international families in Japan with special-needs children.
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LIFE / Travel
Jan 8, 2012

Nosing around Nada, the nation's sake-brewing mecca

Chewing and spitting out rice, unseemly as it sounds, is a key step in making kuchikami (literally, "mouth-chew") sake, an early form of the now world-famous drink. Fortunately, the brew has come a long way since then.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 6, 2012

New Year's discounts in Yokohama

To celebrate the New Year, the InterContinental Yokohama Grand is holding the hotel's popular seasonal event, the Otoshidama (New Year's gift) Promotion.
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LIFE / Travel
Dec 25, 2011

Behold! Christ's grave in Shingo, Aomori Prefecture

One line of text from Wikipedia was all it took to lure me to the town of Shingo, in south-central Aomori Prefecture. It read: "The village promotes itself as the home of the Grave of Christ after a local legend."
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 23, 2011

Even to his people, Kim Jong Il was a mystery

In an age of connection, it's both refreshing and sobering to think that most North Koreans have probably heard Kim Jong Il's voice only once. In 1992 he stood next to his father, then-President Kim Il Sung, and shouted the words "Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!"
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Dec 16, 2011

Christmas in Osaka for couples

The Hotel Granvia Osaka is offering a special Christmas season accommodation plan for couples called Memorial Stay, through Dec. 25.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Dec 9, 2011

Fugu dinner course at Hakone hotel

Through Feb. 29, 2012, the Odakyu Hotel de Yama in the resort area of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, is offering a special winter accommodation plan that comes with a special Japanese kaiseki dinner featuring fugu, a seasonal fish for winter in Japan.
CULTURE / Books
Dec 4, 2011

Global challenge of the big sell

THE DENTSU WAY, by Kotaro Sugiyama and Tim Andree. McGraw Hill, 2011, 310 pp., $28 (hardcover) Founded in 1901, Dentsu Inc.'s success in becoming Japan's top advertising agency, and the world's fifth-largest, reflects the nation's development from a sheltered, rural-based economy to an international...
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Dec 2, 2011

Holiday cocktails with a tower view

The Bay View Sky Lounge on the 28th floor of the Yokohama Bay Sheraton Hotel & Towers is running a Christmas Cocktail Fair through Dec. 25.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 25, 2011

Take in the view at a sky-high buffet

The Hotel New Otani Tokyo is offering an accommodation package featuring a buffet dinner at the hotel's international cuisine restaurant, The Sky, through Dec. 16.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 22, 2011

Last trial brings dark Aum era to end

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by condemned killer Seiichi Endo, lowering the curtain on the trials over the cult's heinous crimes, which began in the 1980s and culminated in the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 18, 2011

Westin Miyako maple boxed lunches

The leaves have been turning color as fall deepens in the ancient capital of Kyoto, renowned for its many prime spots to view the autumn foliage. With many people from around Japan and beyond heading there to enjoy the colorful scene, The Westin Miyako Kyoto is offering a special boxed lunch, called...
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 11, 2011

Thanksgiving Day at Four Seasons

The Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi is celebrating Thanksgiving Day by offering special holiday menus at the hotel's international cuisine restaurant, ekki Bar & Grill, on Nov. 23 and 24.
EDITORIALS
Nov 8, 2011

Fukushima health concerns

As efforts to end the nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant drag on, it is important for the central and local governments to step up their efforts to closely examine the health conditions of people concerned and to decontaminate areas contaminated by radiation....
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Nov 6, 2011

Kiyoshi Nakabayashi: Ex-Tokyo cop speaks out on a life fighting gangs — and what you can do

Kiyoshi Nakabayashi well remembers how, when he was a high school student in the late 1950s and early '60s, newspapers were full of stories of violent gang wars being fought out openly on the streets of Tokyo.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 4, 2011

Jazz at Riva degli Etruschi; marriage fair at Hyatt Regency; pets welcome at Hilton Osaka

The Italian restaurant Riva degli Etruschi in the Omotesando area of Tokyo is launching a monthly live jazz event from this month.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2011

More lawmakers hit by cyber-attacks

Several House of Councilors members have received emails carrying Trojan horse programs designed to breach the security of computer systems, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tsuyoshi Saito said Wednesday, revealing the cyber-attacks.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Nov 1, 2011

The costly fallout of tatemae and Japan's culture of deceit

There is an axiom in Japanese: uso mo hōben — "lying is also a means to an end." It sums up the general attitude in Japan of tolerance of — even justification for — not telling the truth.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2011

Noda takes flak in Diet over extra budget, free trade

Opposition lawmakers lashed out at Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Monday over what they said is the administration's unclear stance on whether to join free-trade talks, criticized components of the third extra budget for the Tohoku region reconstruction and called on him to dissolve the Lower House...
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 28, 2011

Needle away your stresses in Kyoto

It can seem that in the modern world stresses and worries abound, which is why the Hyatt Regency Kyoto is offering a special accommodation package called Ishoku Dogen.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 21, 2011

Halloween at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo

This year, the Grand Hyatt Tokyo is once again offering luxury Halloween treats at its shops and restaurants.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 14, 2011

Rihga Tokyo holds seasonal food fair

Through Oct. 31, the Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo is holding its Autumn Harvest Festival, with the hotel's restaurants, cafe, bar, lounge and gourmet boutique offering special items for the fall season.

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