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Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 1, 2011

Shichi Jyu Ni Kou: Sampling unusual finds on the sake list

Perhaps the most singular aspect of Shichi Jyu Ni Kou (72 Kou) is its drinks list. No other kaiseki restaurant we know of this sophistication lays such emphasis on sake produced with organically grown rice — and to a lesser extent organic wine — to the point of devoting special sections in the menu...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jun 29, 2011

Sale of Apache not on fast track; HeatDevils to play on

Technically, it's too early to say the Tokyo Apache are defunct.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 28, 2011

Kanazawa: What's the one thing you couldn't live without?

Yasushi TakaEnglish teacher, 22 (Japanese)It has to be comedy. I watch comedy almost every day on TV or on YouTube. I especially like Japanese manzai, but that's only one kind that I'm a fan of. I'm always exhausted when I go home, but comedy always makes me feel better. I think laughter is the most...
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2011

Tax increase urged to pay for rebuilding

The government's reconstruction panel submitted a report Saturday to Prime Minister Naoto Kan mapping out measures needed to recover from the devastating March 11 quake and tsunami.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 26, 2011

Irradiated food poses moral dilemmas

Mail-order food-delivery companies and cooperatives have long been among the leading campaigners for — and custodians of — food safety in Japan.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 24, 2011

Foreign residents take part in Japanese traditional dance contest

With summer just around the corner, the spirit of dancing will radiate in the heart of Tokyo as The 6th Foreigner's Traditional Japanese Dance Exhibition takes place June 25.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2011

The economic governance the EU needs

Two lessons have emerged from Europe's financial crisis. First, there is no substitute for timely and coordinated action when the single currency is under pressure. Second, all eurozone countries are effectively in the same boat. If the boat springs a leak, everyone sinks.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2011

Suicides upping casualties from Tohoku catastrophe

On June 11, a dairy farmer in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, chalked a note on the wall of his cattle shed. "If only there wasn't a nuclear power plant," the message read, in reference to the damaged Fukushima No. 1 plant just 45 km away, which had effectively ended his livelihood.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Jun 23, 2011

Japan, U.S. can't manage to shake Futenma headache

High-level security talks between Japan and the United States held Tuesday in Washington canceled the 2014 deadline to move the contentious Futenma air base in Okinawa and highlighted the main issue that is likely to continue complicating the bilateral relationship.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jun 21, 2011

Sharing Tepco's bill; family's tough choice

People must share Tepco burden Re: "A victim of Tepco's yakuza-style extortion" (Have Your Say, June 14) by Blues Bowman:
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2011

Art aid sent as therapy for disaster-zone kids

Fifth-grader Emiliano Renteria was sitting quietly in class on March 11 when his elementary school in Miyagi Prefecture began to shake violently.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 21, 2011

Yokohama: What useful Japanese words have you learned from the 3/11 disasters?

Mike DuncanEnglish teacher, 36 (American)I learned nuclear energy vocabulary like genpatsu (nuclear power plant) and the word for "contamination" (osen) and hōsha (radiation). Despite all the bad news, people were really calm in the face of disaster — no riots and everything was orderly.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 19, 2011

Conduct most becoming of Sado's Berlin triumph

In the past two weeks, three television programs, each on a different network, covered conductor Yutaka Sado's debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. Though Sado's one-off gig would normally mean little outside the rarefied world of classical music, TBS and NHK each decided it merited an in-depth special....
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 19, 2011

Summer's joys in snow country

If you'd only ever experienced Niseko under a four-meter blanket of snow, you'd barely recognize Hokkaido's most cosmopolitan winter-sports resort in summer — in the best way possible.
EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2011

Stepping up the war on AIDS

Thirty years have now passed since HIV/AIDS began making headlines, and the deadly pandemic continues to reap a grim toll. What began as a mysterious illness afflicting the U.S. gay community in the summer of 1981 eventually snowballed into a pandemic that has infected more than 60 million people and...
EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2011

CO² emissions on the rise

The International Energy Agency's latest report, released at the end of May, underlines the uphill struggle the international community faces in its efforts to limit global warming. Although carbon-dioxide emissions dipped in 2009 due to the financial crisis, in 2010 they smashed the 29.3 gigaton record...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 14, 2011

Support network backs Japanese-Filipino kids abandoned by fathers

We regularly receive emails from Japanese-Filipinos searching for their Japanese fathers. Many of these adults were abandoned as children, along with their Filipino mothers, while others were forced to leave Japan for various reasons.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 14, 2011

Top chefs keep taste of Tohoku alive

Some of the country's most highly esteemed chefs are working together to ensure that the people of the Tohoku region are not forgotten three months after being hit by the March 11 disasters.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 13, 2011

More shopping refugees: Residents of planned community at the mercy of bureaucratic prerogatives

Elderly residents of a corner of Chiba New Town have been left without a supermarket to shop in.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 11, 2011

Worldly duo took chance on Japan, find beachhead

Ask Alana and Michel Bonzi where they are from and their first answer is they are citizens of the world.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
Are you leaving your loved ones digital legacies or headaches?
The National Consumer Affairs Center reports a growing number of consultations regarding "digital legacies" — data and online services left behind when people die.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu

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