Search - restaurants

 
Menu
Search
 
November 24, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
7,911 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 7, 2012

Monna Lisa: Michelin-starred food you can afford

As the dust settles from the annual pronouncement of Michelin stars — and, yes, Tokyo remains the tire company's gastronomic capital of the world — it's timely to remember that stellar dining does not have to mean stratospheric prices, even in the most rarefied of surroundings. A case in point: Monna...
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Dec 5, 2012

Share a secret, win Virgin tickets; SAS winter sale; Singapore and Virgin Australia code share

Secret ticket giveaway Virgin Atlantic Airways will give away a pair of round-trip economy-class tickets between Tokyo and London to the person who submits the "best secret spot in the U.K." as a contribution to the company's "Secret U.K. Guide."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Dec 2, 2012

Michael Woodford: Japan's whistle-blower supreme speaks out

Michael Woodford glances out of the floor-to-ceiling window of his multimillion-pound loft apartment, which looks out across the River Thames toward the City of London, the so-called Square Mile that is among the world's leading financial and commercial centers.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 2, 2012

Silent majority blasted by political noise

Here's another election upon us — a fitting time to reflect on tranquility and its opposite, cacophony.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WEEK 3
Nov 18, 2012

Moss art: growing a masterpiece

What's green, fuzzy and has a starring role in Japan's national anthem?
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2012

Mizuho China fund to bank on new leaders

Mizuho Asset Management Co. is opening a China fund, betting new leaders in the world's No. 2 economy will boost growth and quell the Senkaku territorial dispute that has prompted other banks to cancel planned funds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2012

China's Hokkaido forest grab all about water

Morihiro Oguma's phone rang every day with calls from brokers representing foreign investors who wanted to buy his Japan Mineral water bottling business.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 4, 2012

Lake Shikotsu: a Hokkaido wonderland awaits

I have spent the last four hours perspiring under the summer sun, moving slowly and photographing wildflowers. Having hiked the circuitous, twin-peaked route around the caldera of constantly active 1,041-meter Mount Tarumae, I then loped up and down a small peak known only as Kyu-san-ni (its height,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Nov 3, 2012

Free magazines zoom in on all things Japanese

While English-language magazines in Japan are fast becoming a species in danger of extinction, Europe is experiencing a renewed interest in this country thanks to a veteran French journalist who since 2010 has been publishing Zoom Japon (and its English version, Zoom Japan), a free monthly magazine about...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 3, 2012

Time stands still on Amami Oshima

We had already been on Amami Oshima for a week waiting for Typhoon No. 21 to pass. But the typhoon was meandering around the Pacific like a drunken sailor, zigzagging a path north-west, once making a U-turn then righting itself, and another time its path taking a complete pirouette.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2012

Fair trade slowly catching on here

Hirokazu Kanetaka, who works in the cafe section of restaurant operator Zensho Holdings Co., was thrilled when an elementary school teacher in Rwanda thanked the company for helping students get to school on time.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 23, 2012

Tokyo Station's Marunouchi side restored to 1914 glory

Tokyo Station is a major commuter hub that draws throngs of people who visit every day just to admire the Marunouchi side's century-old red-brick and stone facade or stay in its nostalgic hotel. After undergoing a 5½-year renovation, the historic landmark formally reopened on Oct. 1.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 21, 2012

Using the noodle to gain insight into Japanese culinary culture

SLURP! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen — Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup, by Barak Kushner. Global Oriental, 2012, 289 pp., $90 (hardcover) Under the heading "Ramen is Japan" Barak Kushner asserts: "Ramen (regular and instant) permeates all features of contemporary Japanese life." He goes on to...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 19, 2012

Kobe Bay Sheraton wine event; InterContinental Yokohama Christmas cakes; new Grand Hyatt Fukuoka chef

Grand Hyatt Fukuoka's new chef Since September, Ernst Jaeck has been the new executive chef at the Grand Hyatt Fukuoka in Canal City Hakata.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Oct 17, 2012

Apple should team up with local companies to solve Maps dilemma

In September, a major update of Apple's iOS software for iPhones and iPads (iOS6) replaced the devices' long-standing Google Maps application with Apple's self-made Maps service. However, the new app soon caused outrage among iDevice users around the world due to the low quality of the maps.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 5, 2012

A Ta Gueule: French fare born of a one-track mind

The golden age of luxury long-distance train travel is over. The days when overnight journeys were made in exclusive style — complete with Pullman sleeping cars, lounge bar and restaurant on wheels — have gone the way of the steam locomotive.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 5, 2012

Sweets in honor of Ogai Mori; Hyatt Regency fall kaiseki; preorder Cerulean Tower Christmas cakes

Novelist Ogai honored with sweets To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ogai Mori, one of Japan's most famous novelists, Bunkyo Ward in Tokyo held a special project earlier this year in which it commissioned new desserts named after authors associated with the ward, such as Mori, Natsume Soseki,...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 5, 2012

Nash hungry to build off Grouses' success last season

Bob Nash has been around the game long enough to know that he doesn't need to go out of his way to complicate things.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2012

"The Heart of the Chef's Hospitality: Tankumakita's Cuisine and Serving Ware"

Japan is well known for its hospitality to foreign visitors, a custom known as omotenashi. This practice has its roots in the Japanese belief of placing harmony with others above that of personal ego. One aspect of this is the way Japanese chefs strive to perfect their dishes for their guests, and Kyoto...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 28, 2012

Food-themed festival serves up tasty films to chew on

Cinephile foodies, rejoice: The Tokyo Gohan Film Festival kicks off Oct. 6 and runs through Oct. 21. Now in its third year — and with a spinoff event in Osaka held Oct. 6-14 — it's a showcase of films all related to food. Not just one, lonesome movie such as "Dinner Rush" (though that's included...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Sep 28, 2012

Diversifying Japan's biggest food festival

From its origins as a regional festival in the backwaters of Aomori Prefecture, the B-1 Grand Prix has attained a status of Fuji Rock-like proportions. The seven-year-old event, which attracts enthusiasts of local cooking from around Japan, almost single-handedly kick-started the country's obsession...
COMMENTARY
Sep 27, 2012

Senkaku row reverberates across Southeast Asia

China's recent conduct in its bitter dispute with Japan over the ownership of islands, fisheries and seabed resources in the East China Sea raises some geopolitical storm warnings for Southeast Asia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 27, 2012

Singapore's bid to become Asia's newest art hub

Three Tokyo-based Japanese contemporary art galleries — Tomio Koyama Gallery, Mizuma Gallery and Ota Fine Arts — inaugurated new spaces at Singapore's Gillman Barracks at an opening party on Sept. 14, joining 10 other galleries from the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Korea, China, Germany, Italy,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 21, 2012

Yorozuya Okagesan: Michelin-starred food tastes better by the bottle

The entrance to Yorozuya Okagesan is, to put it mildly, discreet. The modest sign is set back so far from the sidewalk you'd never spot the steps unless you knew to look. And you'd never go down them anyway unless you had a reservation since, politely but inevitably, you would be turned away.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’
Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER