Tag - x-japan

 
Menu
Search
 
April 05, 2025
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

X JAPAN

LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Apr 7, 2011
Hanami dilemma: to jishuku or not jishuku
Plan to defy the calls for self-restraint following the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and celebrate sakura anyway? There's a right way to do that.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 5, 2011
Earthquake insurance put to the test
How will Japanese insurance companies deal with the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, the biggest natural disaster in almost a century?
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 2, 2011
Creative shelters bring privacy to Tohoku evacuees
Architects and designers are coming to the aid of homeless needing privacy and shelter in the wake of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 2, 2011
Small businesses ask for restraint with the self-restraint
People are being asked to restrain themselves for the sake of the victims of the earthquake/tsunami, but some are questioning if it's a good idea.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Mar 31, 2011
Post-quake aid on a musical note
Music industries of the world — both mainstream and indie, both domestic and overseas — find different ways to get relief money into quake-hit Japan.
LIFE / Style & Design / Japan Pulse
Mar 29, 2011
Show your support with quake-aid T-shirts
Plenty of ways to show support for post-quake Japan and relief efforts, and wearing a special T-shirt is one of them.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 28, 2011
Tales of reconstruction: How do you assess damage of this magnitude?
Before Japan's devastated northeast areas can receive relief compensation, private property has to be assessed; a process that could take months.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 26, 2011
Tepco blackouts roll only so far
Everybody is being asked to conserve electricity but when it comes to rolling blackouts, Arakawa and Adachi Ward have been forced to bear the burden.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 22, 2011
Yen surge not as strange as it sounds
What the yen surge really points to that the world has confidence in the Japanese economy based on its underlying strength.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 18, 2011
Power to the people: TEPCO at economic cross-purposes with blackout strategy
If the current energy crisis is not a more convincing argument for the development of the so-called smart-grid system, we don't know what is.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Mar 9, 2011
Taro Okamoto towers above 2011
An NHK drama rekindled interest in Sakamoto Ryoma in 2010; will a new series do the same for artist Taro Okamoto in 2011?
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Mar 8, 2011
You want that green tea to go?
Green tea is traditionally a drink to be savored slowly, but new innovations are targeting people on the go.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Mar 5, 2011
New-style ramen targets female noodle-lovers
Ramen shops diversify their stocks, toppings and presentations in hopes of attracting female noodle-lovers.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Mar 4, 2011
Will girls take the bait of fishing fashion?
Taking its cue from the yama girl boom, the fishing industry is baiting their lines in hopes of luring a new female market.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 27, 2011
History museum takes no prisoners
A powerful earthquake devastated Sichuan Province in 2008 and recovery is still ongoing, but this prosperous and fertile region of southwest China has also suffered a series of man-made disasters.
LIFE / Style & Design / Japan Pulse
Feb 25, 2011
With steteco and haramaki, old men's underwear is young again
As men's undies go old school, will 'boxers or briefs' replace 'steteco or haramaki'?
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Feb 25, 2011
Techno Shugei weaves craft into circuitry
Homespun crafts and ingenuity meet DIY electronics and kawaii geekery in techno shugei.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 24, 2011
Come all ye hoarders and swappers
Need some shoes .. or get rid of some shoes? Have we got some sites for you.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 21, 2011
Music makes bananas fit for the long run
Yes, Tokyo Marathon runners, we have musically enhanced 'sports bananas.'
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 19, 2011
And the next taberu rayu will be . . .
Taberu rayu became the king of condiments in 2010. Will new contenders topple it from its throne?
U.S. tourist arrested after bringing a handgun into Japan
Hyogo police believe the handgun a U.S. tourist inadvertently brought into Japan slipped through security procedures at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture.
3D printer used to construct train station building in Japan
A train station building (front) is assembled from parts printed using 3D printer technology, in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Japan’s leader didn’t read the job description
Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Shigeru Ishiba is facing a political funding scandal that has damaged his reputation and sparked speculation that internal efforts to remove him are underway.
Japan promises 'bold and speedy' response to Trump’s surprise 24% tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump unveils new U.S. tariffs at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
Tokyo’s KK Line to close for decadelong overhaul as public greenway
People enjoy running and yoga on Tokyo Expressway’s KK Line, a 2-kilometer elevated expressway cutting through the capital’s commercial Ginza district, when it was opened as a pedestrian space in May last year.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.

Podcast

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

Longform

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
By Johan Brooks

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

BOARDING & INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL DAY 2025 (Sunday, April 20)
BOARDING & INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL DAY 2025 (Sunday, April 20)

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER