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Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2014

Shibuya Station to be rebuilt

East Japan Railway Co. says it will start laying the groundwork for wholesale renovations of Shibuya Station in Tokyo that will take more than a decade to complete.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 26, 2016

Security alert prompts brief evacuation of Rome's central train station

Italy's main railway station reopened on Monday after police briefly evacuated the huge terminus following reports that an armed man was in the building, the state railways said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 1, 2015

Shinagawa Station's great wall of sake

Finding a new favorite izakaya tavern is always cause for celebration, especially if it happens to be on your way home. Better yet, if it offers good food and a great sake selection. Nurukan Sato Gotenyama Saryo ticks all of those boxes — just as long as "on your way home" involves passing through...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2020

Tokyo Station's Olympic countdown clock turned off

Passersby in front of Tokyo Station gathered around a popular Olympics countdown clock to take pictures Wednesday as it stopped displaying the number of days until the games after the event was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Jul 15, 2017

'Tokyo Station': Taut thriller has slow start, strong finish

The bulk of Martin Cruz Smith's "Tokyo Station" is set in 1941, when the impending war with the Allied Forces was the talk of Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Nov 2, 2016

Tokyo Station Gallery celebrates Ken Takakura's traditional virtues

Ken Takakura (1931-2014) was a major film star for nearly five decades. He also became a national icon for embodying traditional virtues, especially in his dozens of gang films for the Toei studio in the 1960s and '70s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 15, 2015

'Tsukuhae'

Sept. 19-Nov. 3
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 2, 2015

'Rey Camoy: Retrospective: On the 30th Anniversary of His Death'

May 30-July 20
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 28, 2013

'Shohachi Kimura'

Shohachi Kimura (1893-1958) developed an early interest in foreign novels and other facets of Western culture. He first aspired to become a writer, but changed his mind at age 18 to pursue art and painting. Still interested in literature, however, he often contributed illustrations to novels.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2018

Judge orders Amsterdam station stabbing suspect held two more weeks, cites 'terrorist motive'

An investigating judge on Monday ordered an Afghan asylum-seeker held for a further two weeks on suspicion of stabbing "with a terrorist motive" two American tourists at Amsterdam's main railway station.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 14, 2017

'Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan Around the 1970s'

Feb. 18-April 16
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 1, 2015

'Voices of 20 Contemporary Artists at Idem Paris: A Lithography Studio in Montparnasse'

Dec. 5-Feb. 7

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Yasuyuki Yoshida stirs a brew in a fermentation tank at his brewery in Hakusan.
The quake that shook Noto's sake brewing tradition