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Sunday 22nd November, 02:13 PM JST TOKYO — A fire broke out Sunday morning at a restaurant in Tokyo’s Koenji district, killing four people and injuring 12 others, firefighters and police said. Starting around 9:10 a.m., the...
THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/11/09: The Post asked foreign policy experts if Obama's trip was a success or an embarrassment. Below are contributions from Michael Auslin, Michael Green, Victor Cha, Danielle Pletka, Douglas E. Schoen,...
Tokyo studio Naruse Inokuma Architects have designed a coat stand made of five wooden poles held together with string. The sticks are held in a tensegrity structure so that none of the sticks touch each other. The stand was on...
Following its debut at the recent TAB 5th anniversary party, Mammal — the band/dance unit composed of Ian Lynam and Mari Kojima — returns for another performance, this time during the upcoming PechaKucha Night in Tokyo Vol. 67,...
A few months ago, Jeremy Leslie over on his MagCulture blog posted a detailed — and crowdsourced — map of London’s best magazine stores. At the time I thought it was a terrific idea, and wanted to create something similar for...
The Uniqlo chain held an early-morning sale at about 400 stores Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of its operator, with more than 2,000 people lining up before dawn outside its flagship store in Tokyo's...
The Foreign Ministry has decided to admit the existence of a secret Japan-U.S. pact under which Tokyo allows stopovers of U.S. military vessels or aircraft carrying nuclear weapons, ministry sources said Saturday. During its...
When I read the news item in early November about the three men in Tottori Prefecture whose mysterious deaths were linked to a woman already under arrest for fraud, I associated them with the similarly mysterious deaths of...
The Epicurean king who oversees the Michelin Guide fears he may be banished from France. His shocking crime? Awarding Tokyo more three-star restaurant ratings than Paris, thereby crowning the Japanese metropolis the new...
AFP – Nao (left) and Rinko, "maids" girls clad in classic frills, are seen posing next to a banner … by Miwa Suzuki Miwa Suzuki – 7 mins ago HACHIOJI, Japan (AFP) – Girls clad in maids' outfits are not traditionally associated...
