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TRAVEL

LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Jun 9, 2015
Cathay Pacific packages; new Scoot route; Miffy traveling in Europe
Cathay Pacific packages
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2015
Remembering when space could still awe us
Through a strange process of inversion, the U.S. victory in the 1960s space race against the Soviet Union rendered space travel boring.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 6, 2015
War and peace on Okinawa's Iejima Island
Beside their coastlines, there are other insistent geographical features that identify islands. In Okinawa, there is the great escarpment of Tindahanata on Yonaguni-jima Island, while Ishigaki Island has the strangely occult form of Mount Maapee, shaped like a sorcerer's hat.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 4, 2015
Kyu Karuizawa Hotel re-opening; lunch at the Century Southern Tower; ANA offers taste of South America
Kyu Karuizawa Hotel re-opening
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
May 30, 2015
Flora, fauna and fellows on the river
With summer's heat punching in early this year, I'm already angling for riverside relief. I trundle down to Ota Ward's Rokugodote, the southernmost train station in Tokyo's 23 wards, and a stone's throw from the Tamagawa (Tama River). The 138-km-long Tamagawa, which in this location divides Tokyo from...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
May 26, 2015
More bags to bring; new routes to Taiwan; Hiroshima gains flights
More bags to bring
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 21, 2015
Tokyo Station Hotel fetes centenary; enjoying beer at Rihga Royal Osaka; summer sandwiches at New Otani
Tokyo Station Hotel fetes centenary
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 16, 2015
Cruising the waves of Japan's culture
As the great ship surges into Tokyo Bay I'm on the prow, hair streaming in the wind, like Kate Winslet in "Titanic." Wooded crags come into view, dotted with buildings and the odd factory chimney. The buildings are modern, not wooden houses, but the crags are still much the same as Commodore Matthew...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 14, 2015
Prince Park Tower anniversary plans; Cerulean celebrates with champagne; tropical afternoon tea at The Strings
Prince Park Tower anniversary plans
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
May 12, 2015
New menu on United; multiple-flight booking; KLM teams up with Miffy
New menu on United
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 11, 2015
Narita airport launches short tours for layover passengers
Waiting for a flight in transit at an airport is an unwelcome burden for travelers. But at Narita International Airport, that spare time could become a memorable part of the journey.
BUSINESS
May 8, 2015
Chinese conglomerate treats 6,400 of its workers to holiday in France
China's Tiens Group Co. Ltd. is treating more than half of its 12,000 employees to a four-day holiday in France and has booked up 140 hotels in the capital Paris as part of the package, a French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 7, 2015
Taking care of mothers and fathers; Ginza Grand Hotel marks one year; a chance to try the best Japanese beef
Taking care of mothers and fathers
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 30, 2015
Azaleas await at Hotel de Yama; Capitol Tokyu welcomes chef Martin; 'Yoga & Beauty Cuisine' plan
Azaleas await at Hotel de Yama
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Apr 28, 2015
Swiss Air Lines updates in-flight dining choices
Swiss International Air Lines, with flights connecting Narita and Zurich, proudly welcomes passengers with its 'SWISS Taste of Switzerland,' a concept that runs through its first and business class flight meals elaborately designed by Kiyomi Mikuni, one of Japan's most renowned French cuisine chefs....
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 25, 2015
The temporal shift of Ainokura village
The tour conductor waved her flag furiously as she directed the bus driver into the last remaining slot in the parking lot that serves the village of Shirakawa-go.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 23, 2015
Mother's Day at Hotel New Otani; mother-daughter time at Celestine; springtime sandwiches at The Hilton
Mother's Day at Hotel New Otani
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 18, 2015
Kochi doesn't need to fish for compliments
The fire is supposed to be searing my skipjack tuna, but I feel as if it's my cheeks that are cooking instead.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2015
Jumbo jets face a make-or-break year at Boeing and Airbus
The jumbo jet, for many years the workhorse of modern air travel, could be close to running out of runway.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 16, 2015
Re-opening of Fujisan Station Hotel; Four Seasons unveils Motif restaurant; beer garden at The Ritz-Carlton, Osaka
Re-opening of Fujisan Station Hotel
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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