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CULTURE / Film
May 31, 2013

'Maniac'

Elijah Wood, best known for his work in the "Lord of the Rings" series and for having been around since babyhood, is perhaps looking to branch out as an actor. That would explain "Maniac," a remake of the 1980 slasher movie recognized among horror fans as the precursor to "The Silence of the Lambs."...
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 28, 2013

Tokyo's Koreatown emerged from the flow of bilateral ties

Diplomatic friction between Tokyo and Seoul over territorial and historical disputes is making headlines once again, and Tokyo's right-wing protesters know just where to go to get in the face of its Korean residents: Koreatown in Shinjuku Ward's Shin-Okubo district.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 26, 2013

Kan Yasuda's tactile art brings new life to Bibai

Kan Yasuda's art somehow draws in the landscape, and entices in people, so that it is natural to explore the view through his structures and keyholes, to sit awhile atop a sculpture or to pose within their frames.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
May 14, 2013

Retro makes a comeback, while subcultures seep into high fashion

Phillip Lim's new collection speeds ahead
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2013

Remembering the awe that is Gettysburg

It was the biggest battle of the war, unequaled in scale and violence by anything seen before or since in North America. Two immense armies collided in the fields and orchards and woods around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 1863, and fought for three days with no quarter given, in arguably the...
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Apr 29, 2013

Bilingual beauty, straight and permed

Beauty must be a bilingual thing. At least that's the impression one gets from looking at signs outside hairdressers, beauty parlors and similar types of businesses in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 23, 2013

Student seeking Kyoto flat told: No foreigners allowed

After spending 2u00bd years living the quiet life in Shiga Prefecture, Ryukoku University student Victor Rosenhoj was looking forward to moving to Kyoto, where things promised to be more lively and international.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2013

A journey across Margaret Thatcher's England

Much of Eileen Jeffrey's adult life has been shaped by a woman she never met and a prime minister she never voted for.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Apr 5, 2013

Springtime sweets come into bloom

The petals may have dropped from the cherry trees, at least in the Tokyo area, but there are plenty of leaves to be seen — and not just on the trees. Look around any shop selling traditional wagashi sweets at this time of year and you'll find cherry leaves in evidence, wrapped around sakura-mochi....
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 4, 2013

U.K. immigration critical to success of anti-EU party

For the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), defeat has never looked this much like victory.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Mar 14, 2013

Karachi touts fresh camel milk as 'world's next superfood'

During the evening rush hour in central Karachi, Nadeem Mutloob can barely keep up with demand at his curbside milk bar, a popular stop for workers on their way home. Customers line up for cool bottles of what Mutloob and some medical researchers tout as an unbeatable health supplement: camel milk, or,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 14, 2013

Wonderful Noise's Kenji Sakajiri searches for 'soul' in his label's signings

At the age of 18, Kenji Sakajiri left his hometown of Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, and moved to Osaka. He wasn't headed to college or looking for a day job. Instead he dived headfirst into the world of vinyl records.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Mar 1, 2013

Qusca: a good place to nap on the job

People fall asleep everywhere in Tokyo, but this cafe is actually made for it.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Mar 1, 2013

Tea and cakes, the British way

'I am not very fond of sugar and sweet things, and yet I became a pastry chef.' The story of British pu00e2tissiu00e8re Rose Carrarini, whose quote adorns the wall in the growing number of cafe-bakeries that bear her name, is an eye-opener on many levels.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Feb 26, 2013

The bird is the latest word in animal cafes

Japan's new cafes let patrons get up close and cuddly - with birds of prey.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Feb 24, 2013

Spring training in Mukojima

It's hard to think of February as springlike, what with snowfalls, freezing winds and a dusting of dead leaves everywhere. But I know from experience that the intrepid Prunus mume, or plum tree, blooms this month, and a trek to see some blossoms seems de rigueur. From the Tobu Isesaki Line, I get off...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Feb 22, 2013

Foodie Media 101: Eat all about it

Every Monday night at 7, Japanese TV viewers are treated to the sight of comedians being locked inside a fast-food restaurant. Formica tables take the place of iron bars, and instead of three square meals a day the cast is fed a steady diet of the shop's specialties — tonkatsu breaded pork cutlets,...
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 19, 2013

Millions of dogs and cats coddled, 200,000 gassed each year in pet-mad Japan

Cast in bronze, Hachiko sits in a position of prominence befitting a storied daimyo or prime minister, right next to the busiest intersection in Japan, if not the world.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2013

Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc

For Yuji Hoshino, mushrooms were a way of life. The 50-year-old farmer grew up watching his father raise shiitake mushrooms on their land at the foot of the mountains in Sano, southern Tochigi Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / A TASTE OF HOME
Feb 15, 2013

Tokyo has California-style burritos all wrapped up

Nothing gives me greater pleasure, as a California native, than to discover a new burrito shop. I'm not talking about the kind of burritos served on a plate in a restaurant.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 8, 2013

New lobby at Ritz-Carlton, Osaka; grill your own pancakes; Valentine's Day dinner with roses

Ritz-Carlton, Osaka renews lobby
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Jan 15, 2013

Warōsoku

Dear Alice,
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 27, 2012

Japan's public museums enjoy a makeover

The collapse of the Sasago Tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture three weeks ago put a spotlight on the state of Japan's infrastructure, and how many of the bridges and tunnels that were built during the period of rapid economic development in the 1970s and '80s have not received proper maintenance. Much of...
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 18, 2012

Acne Studios opens house in Japan

They are two cities separated by more than 8,000 km. But despite the geographical distance, a little piece of Stockholm arrived last week in Tokyo — in the form of Asia's first Acne store.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2012

Tsunami survivor uses English to share his tragic story

Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Dec 7, 2012

Candy made fresh at Tokyo stores

If Christmas is the time when adults pander to their inner child, then it is holiday season all year round at Papabubble. Tokyo's premier purveyor of artisan candies is no ordinary sweet shop: it's more like a Santa's grotto — complete with happy toiling elves.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2012

Surge of support for Hamas fading in Gaza

Strung across chaotic streets and through mazes of narrow alleys, the iconic green flags of the Islamic Resistance Movement, better known as Hamas, festoon the gray cement-block buildings.

Longform

Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
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