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Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 16, 2019

AirKitchen Plus: A new way to find vegan and vegetarian food in Japan

AirKitchen Plus aims to connect users with hosts across Japan who are happy to provide home-cooked vegetarian and vegan meals for their guests.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / G20 host cities special
Mar 5, 2019

Premium produce, delicious dishes

Niigata, which will host the Agriculture Ministers' Meeting on May 11 and 12, is known for many things, but premier Koshihikari rice is likely the prefecture's most notable product.
LIFE / Travel / G20 host cities special
Mar 5, 2019

Japan's lively 'gateway to Asia'

Fukuoka, the biggest city in Kyushu and considered a gateway to Asia with its historical and geographical background, is a lively metropolis that has both urban and countryside charm with its fantastic shopping, eateries and abundant nature to explore.
Feb 12, 2019

Unazuki Yamanoha Set to Reopen on March 1, 2019

TOKYO, Japan – February 12, 2019 – ORIX Real Estate Corporation (“ORIX Real Estate”) announced that renovation of the Unazuki Yamanoha (“Unazuki Yamanoha Onsen Hotel”) it operates has been completed, and that the hotel will reopen on March 1, 2019.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 24, 2019

Restaurants honor hotel's 30th anniversary

Add another candle to the cake — the Royal Park Hotel is turning 30, and it's celebrating by putting together "Thank You Lunch & Dinner" courses at four of its restaurants.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 30, 2018

Tottori's wild meat has many benefits for those who are game

As consuming wild meat, including wild boar and deer, gains popularity in Japan, Tottori Prefecture, in the Chugoku region of Honshu, aims to game to the next level.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 15, 2018

Nihonryori RyuGin: New address for a Tokyo classic

Even in Tokyo, a city that relentlessly reinvents itself, change never comes easy, no matter how celebrated a restaurant may be. The bigger the name, the greater the expectations, and few have larger reputations than Nihonryori RyuGin.
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.
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 4, 2018

Revel in a rich and tasty celebration

Sometimes, "a ton of chocolate" isn't hyperbole. Running now until Dec. 26, ANA InterContinental Tokyo proudly presents Chocolate Sensation, a hotel-wide event celebrating cocoa-based culinary creativity; and to make sure there's enough to go around, the hotel has procured multiple chocolate shipments...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 15, 2018

Kerala no Kaze II: South Indian specials with a Japanese touch

"Tiffin" and "meals." "Uppma," "vada" and "idli." The vocabulary of South Indian cuisine conjures up images of spices, swaying palm trees and fragrant ocean breezes. In Tokyo, the locations tend to be rather less exotic. But the ride to suburban Omori repays you well, once you arrive at Kerala no Kaze...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 7, 2018

'Engineer-friendly' Fukuoka pitches merits in campaign to become tech hub

It's a fast-growing city but with a reasonable cost of living, diverse cuisine and close access to an airport. Plus, the city is willing to support new tech projects.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 1, 2018

Eneko Tokyo: Basque-inspired, truffle-infused cooking

It was one of the major restaurant openings of last year — a renowned, award-winning European chef at the top of his game, launching his second self-named overseas offshoot. And yet, when you arrive at Eneko Tokyo, hidden away on a quiet Nishiazabu side street, it can feel as though you have come across...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Aug 25, 2018

Masato Miyazawa: Calm, collected, almost transcendent

When Masato Miyazawa opened his first restaurant here in Kyoto, he was 32.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 18, 2018

Belon chef to showcase his cooking in Tokyo collab

Known for his precise, classically French approach to cooking, Daniel Calvert will join Yusuke Namai of restaurant Ode in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward for a collaboration dinner on August 29.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Deep Dive
Jul 26, 2018

Sushi's balancing act: Tradition versus adaptation

For leading food critic Masuhiro Yamamoto, sushi is part food, part theater, a dining experience unique among Japanese culinary traditions. From the closed-off tuna auctions of Tsukiji to the chefs who meticulously craft morsels of fish for loyal customers, each player has a role to play in this carefully...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Deep Dive
Jul 26, 2018

Dining out in Tokyo in the age of gastro-tourism

Tokyo: It's the world's greatest dining city. Twenty years ago this assertion — one I delighted in dropping into conversations whenever possible — would have been met with bemusement if not ridicule, especially among the gourmets of Paris or New York. These days, few seriously dispute it. In terms...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Jul 7, 2018

At Mugaritz, sommelier Guillermo Cruz pairs sake and the avant-garde

Although Basque Country in Spain might not be your first thought when it comes to Japanese brews, two-Michelin-star Mugaritz is helping diners fall in love with sake by offering multiple pairings with each imaginative dish.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 7, 2018

Refreshing menus kick-start the summer

The Hilton Odawara Resort & Spa in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, is offering lunch and afternoon buffets featuring refreshing summer menus until Aug. 31.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 2, 2018

The rising star of Tokyo's dim sum scene

From Jin Din Rou to Tim Ho Wan, here's where to go for dim sum in the capital.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 19, 2018

Bees Bar by Narisawa: Restaurant’s side project is a more casual affair

After 15 years, chef Yoshihiro Narisawa's eponymous high-end restaurant in Aoyama needs no introduction or further plaudits, and nor does his innovative, superlative cuisine. But there was always one area that needed addressing: the lack of a bar inside his compact premises.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 10, 2018

Culinary forces unite for collaborative dinner

The ANA InterContinental Tokyo will offer a collaborative dinner between chefs from two restaurants — the hotel's Japanese restaurant Unkai and Odette, a two-star Michelin restaurant in Singapore, from May 24 until May 26.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 31, 2018

A new generation of Japanese chefs comes to the fore at Asia's Best 50

Just as surely as spring brings blossom and fresh foliage, it also heralds the announcement of the annual Asia's 50 Best Restaurants rankings. And this year there was intense celebration by many of Japan's top chefs to match the festivities going on underneath the billowing sakura (cherry trees) back...
Japan Times
Mar 27, 2018

TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Releases “Behind The Scenes: guntû”, a Group Channel Movie Documenting the Creation of the cruise ship “guntû”

On 26 February, TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd.(HQ: 1083 Tsuneishi, Numakuma-cho, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan; President: Kenji Kawano; hereinafter, “TSUNEISHI”) released “Behind The Scenes: guntû” on its group channel, a film documenting the creation of guntû, which made its first commercial...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 15, 2018

Selections abound in afternoon tea

As part of a collection of seasonal afternoon teas dubbed the MOTIF Afternoon Tea Collection, Motif Restaurant & Bar at Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi is offering Sakura Afternoon Tea until April 30.
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 22, 2018

World Gardening Fair celebrates final year

The Hotel Okura Tokyo's final World Gardening Fair will be held from May 2 to 6 at Ascot Hall in the Hotel Okura. This beloved charity event that has been held for 18 years will offer not only the unique opportunity to see various botanical displays, but also experience the food, traditions and culture...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 18, 2018

Midori Farm: Finding earthy solutions in rural Shiga

Nonprofit turns neglected land into productive farmland and brings together foreign volunteers and local people.
As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more U.S. firms say retailers turning away products
Empty shelves with "Buy Canadian Instead" signs are seen in the American Whiskey section of the BC Liquor in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 10.
U.S. tourist arrested after bringing a handgun into Japan
Hyogo police believe the handgun a U.S. tourist inadvertently brought into Japan slipped through security procedures at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture.
Trump unveils 10% global tariff, with Japan levy set at 24%
Trump tosses a MAGA hat to the crowd during an event in which he unveiled new tariffs in the White House on Wednesday.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
Japan promises 'bold and speedy' response to Trump’s surprise 24% tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump unveils new U.S. tariffs at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
On defense, Japan may avoid Trump's worst impulses — for now
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth chat after reviewing an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sunday.

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