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KIMCHI

Lee Ha-yeon, a recognized kimchi grand master and her apprentices prepare kimchi at the Kimchi Culture Institute in Namyangju, South Korea, on Aug 21.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 4, 2024
Kimchi no more? Climate change puts South Korea's beloved cabbage dish at risk
Data from the government statistics agency shows the area of highland cabbage farmed last year was less than half of what it was 20 years ago.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Nov 13, 2022
Recipe: Bubble and squeak
A bite of Old Blighty fit for both commoner and king.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 2, 2020
Is China laying claim to kimchi, too? Some South Koreans think so.
A spat is raging this week over a Chinese state tabloid's claim that China had 'led” the development of an international standard for paocai, or pickled vegetables.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 22, 2020
Kimchi-making at home was going out of style. Rural towns to the rescue.
Families that have grown weary of eating commercial kimchi in big cities have started making pilgrimages to the countryside where they can learn how to prepare it on their own.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2020
A kimchi disaster is brewing after typhoons crippled cabbage fields
Fields of cabbages were wiped out across South Korea this summer due to the extreme weather, causing prices to surge more than 60%.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Feb 10, 2018
Kimchi no Mizuno: A favorite of Kyoto's midday crowd
At Kimchi no Mizuno, staff regularly play a game with the tables, an ever-changing dance with the room, performed to get around the fact that the restaurant is noticeably small, with space for no more than half a dozen tables.
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2014
Kobe neighborhood gets spicy with 'kimchi town' moniker
A Kobe neighborhood densely populated with Korean residents is now touting itself as the "town of kimchi," having created brochures that have proved more popular than expected.
Seven & I pans value of offer as it rejects Canadian takeover bid
Seven & I Holdings, operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, said on Friday it has rejected Alimentation Couche-Tard's takeover bid as not being in the interest of shareholders.
Japan's Prince Hisahito turns 18
Prince Hisahito observes in July narrow leaf cattail that he had planted at the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Japan miffed but reaction muted after shocking twist to U.S. Steel deal
Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel is opposed by politicians across the political spectrum, including both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
Japan’s second city can finally make Tokyo jealous
Osaka is set to open Grand Green Osaka in the city’s Umekita area. It is a sprawling redevelopment that combines a park with mixed-use skyscrapers and is part of a push to rejuvenate the merchant city.
Demand for Calrose rice rises amid Japanese rice shortage
Shuzo Fukushi, who heads Rice Meister Kojimachi in Tokyo, shows a bag of Calrose mixed with domestic rice at his store on Thursday.
No talking, no eating, no standing: Inside sumo's ring purification ceremony
A sumo referee performs the dohyō matsuri, or ring purification ceremony, in January 2017 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Pasocom Music Club returns to the pure pleasures of the dance floor
Pasocom Music Club’s “Love Flutter” marks an important moment for Japan’s electronic community as project members Aoi Shibata (left) and Masato Nishiyama step into a role other artists once held for them — scene veterans who are inspiring the next generation.
Typhoon-chaser's firsthand account of his pursuit of Shanshan
A washed-up boat on the shore of the city of Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Friday
First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.
An abandoned house in Urayama, Saitama Prefecture. Buying an <i>akiya</i>, which means empty house in Japanese, can be a rewarding experience that yields a unique space and a livable home, competitively priced. Or it could turn out to be a money pit.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?
By Alex K.T. Martin

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