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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 13, 2010

Top dancer to delight Fukuoka flamenco fans

A breathtaking performance by Spanish flamenco dancer Miguel Can~as is bound to captivate audiences in Fukuoka next week.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BY THE GLASS
Aug 13, 2010

East meets West at the dining table

Matching wine with Japanese food can be fraught with difficulty. A refined, oak-aged Bordeaux paired with a cool plate of sashimi, for example, can come across as brash and overbearing, completely drowning out the subtle spectrum of seafood flavors. But that's not to say great matches are impossible....
COMMENTARY
Aug 2, 2010

Go past Koizumi's reforms to restore the Meiji spirit

LONDON — "Japan has lost its place in world, no longer serious economic power."
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COMMUNITY
Jul 24, 2010

Seattle pair put sake on local map

Japan abounds with foreigners attracted by its cultural opportunities, who live in the country and eventually make a livelihood by specializing in attributes the country has to offer. Scattered across the world, their counterparts reside in towns in Europe or America, those who, after spending time in...
COMMENTARY
Jul 13, 2010

How Japan regains vitality

Japan's international rating has been declining lately. Heard overseas are suggestions that Japan is about to enter its third "lost decade," or that Japan has disappeared off the world's radar screen. Its share of global GDP, 14.3 percent in 1990, slipped to 8.9 percent in 2008 and is expected to sink...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 11, 2010

Takamatsu then and now

In 1988 I was an awkward, dreamy kid with clumsy elbows and scraped knees, and Japan was a place I'd never even thought about. Impossibly far away and altogether foreign, it seemed fantastical.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jul 6, 2010

Despite 'wagyu's' history, foot-and-mouth hit hard

Although sushi may be the dish of choice for many Japanese, consumption of beef has greatly expanded in the country since it opened its doors to Western culture following the Meiji Restoration.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Jun 17, 2010

Unbridle your inner carnivore

How do you like your raw horse meat served? Lean, medium or fatty?
JAPAN / PROMOTING TOURISM FROM CHINA
Jun 17, 2010

Kansai gropes to find right hook

OSAKA — PROMOTING TOURISM FROM CHINA
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 4, 2010

Change is not always for the better

Hidden away just up the side street from Incanto, the bijou wine bar formerly known (and extolled in this column) as Terauchi has gone through two name changes in the past couple of years. First it became Magazzino; now, since April of this year, it is simply known as Itabar.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
May 30, 2010

Miso happy in Nakamurabashi

I hear somewhere near Nakamura in Nerima Ward, miso is still made in the age-old traditional way. I figure I'll just wander around the tidy little neighborhood and find it.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 28, 2010

Get squiddy

Squid are one of the sea creatures that feature most often in Japanese cuisine — whether as sashimi, squid-ink pasta or Hokkaido's renowned ika meshi (squid sausages filled with rice), to name but a few squiddy specialities.
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LIFE
May 23, 2010

Ugly seafood just doesn't get better

A mong the highlights of any visit to Ibaraki Prefecture could well be Kita-Ibaraki in its far northeast — specifically the towns of Otsu-ko and Hirakata-ko, which offer perhaps the best opportunity in the nation to sample the great winter seafood delicacy of anko (anglerfish)
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 21, 2010

Cozy spots for more south-of-the-border fare

There's little likelihood of Mexican cuisine hitting the mainstream in Tokyo anytime soon, but there's a fair sprinkling of places around town that can scratch the itch when those cravings for tacos and burritos get too insistent.
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LIFE
Apr 25, 2010

Cooking up a menu mixing local and Thai

Motoko Yamada, 27, the manager of a Thai restaurant named Rahotsu, has lived in Nara since 2002, when she moved to the prefecture to attend Nara Women's University. A welfare studies major who wanted to put her knowledge to work in local communities, after graduation it was a natural decision for her...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 18, 2010

The glories of Yakushima

There's a film you should see before you go to Yakushima, an island off the southern coast of Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu. It's more informative than the average guidebook or, for that matter, the island's World Heritage-listing citation from 1993, which misleadingly talks about "the sacred values...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 18, 2010

Tracing food origins; Korean drama 'Iris'; CM of the week: Reve21

Many travel shows are about food. The new TV Tokyo series, "Gakuryu Shiraberu Toraberu" (Reverse Current Investigation Travel; Mon., 8 p.m.) takes the idea one step further.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Apr 13, 2010

Nutritionist praises traditional diet

Erica Angyal, the 40-year-old official nutritionist of Miss Universe Japan, is on a mission to bring balanced meals back to the Japanese table.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 9, 2010

Taste the many flavors of wasabi

Until the end of May, the Japanese restaurant Shunbou in the Grand Hyatt Tokyo will feature wasabi, a ubiquitous condiment in Japanese cuisine.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Mar 19, 2010

French-flavored rooms for kids

Oriental Hotel Tokyo Bay, a Tokyo Disney Resort partner hotel, opened its Kiddy Sweet concept rooms on its top floor on March 18, targeting families with children from ages 4 through 6.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 9, 2010

What would you miss most about your homeland if you lived abroad?

COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 7, 2010

For humanity's sake, let's tie whaling in with animal welfare as a whole

Back in the early '90s, my wife, children and I lived in the picturesque and historical Sydney suburb of Mosman . . . well, historical by white-settler Australian standards.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 5, 2010

A16: Brick Square is hip

Spring may not be here for real just yet, but it's never too early to celebrate the first al fresco lunch of the year. So when last week's unseasonably warm spell arrived we knew exactly where to go — into the heart of the city, to grab an outside table at A16.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 25, 2010

Macrobiotic master extols joy of cooking

At age 51, Madonna still has a fantastic physique, and she has Chef Mayumi Nishimura to thank in part for that.
CULTURE / Books
Feb 21, 2010

Truly unique version of the foreigner's tale

Like a Yemenese bride-to-be who first sees the countenance of her fiance in a photo presented by relatives, Rebecca Otowa experienced a presentiment of her future in a black-and-white image of a building, a 350-year-old farmhouse in rural Japan.
EDITORIALS
Feb 7, 2010

The economics of eating in

The economic downturn continues to affect all parts of Japanese society with long-term repercussions for some. Restaurant operators in Japan saw a 1.5 percent drop in total sales in 2009. That figure may seem small, but it's the first decline in six years. This survey by the Japan Food Service Association...

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan