Food for thought ›
he knife slashes into the bright orange carrot, spraying rough vegetable fragments across the cutting board. The resulting cut is ragged and uneven, displaying a raw texture, which, as Arisa Daggers...
View ArticleTaste of Nippon ›
Photo by Genevieve Sawtelle hite wine goes with fish and red wine with red meat.” It’s common practice to match certain types of cuisine with wine or even sake. But what about beer? Can such a common,...
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Photo by Paddy O’Connor n the land of sashimi, a tried and true recipe is being revived. But it’s not served with a side of delicately sculpted ginger; try, instead, a heap of chips, a cup of gravy,...
View ArticleSailing into history ›
Photo by Rod Walters r Kirk Patterson has made sailing history. On 27 July, the former dean of Temple University Japan became the first non–Japanese to circumnavigate the country alone, by boat. The...
View ArticleBarbells and breeze ›
very few years, it appears, there’s a new fitness craze — Zumba, CrossFit, MMA fighting, and the list goes on. Here in Tokyo, the latest workout trend involves a group of adults lifting barbells and...
View ArticleMoving pictures ›
f you have even the slightest interest in Japan, chances are you’re one of the more than one million people who have viewed the eight-minute film Hayaku by Brad Kremer on Vimeo or YouTube. Hayaku is a...
View ArticleSynergy ›
Photo by Geoff Botting ntrepreneurs are risk-takers. They often leave their comfortable existence marked by job security, regular paychecks and corporate pension schemes to venture into a brave new...
View ArticleWell dressed ›
Photo by Tim Maughan utumn sunshine strikes the grey stonewall of Grand Front Osaka, an airy business and retail complex in the chief commercial zone of Japan’s third-largest city. Light dances off a...
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Humour may be hard to translate. But in the hands of an award-winning director, writer and actor, it becomes a cross-cultural language delighting audiences worldwide. Europeans are some of his greatest...
View ArticleCan you tell me what’s in this? ›
Not too long ago, dining choices for vegetarians in Japan were few and far between. If your brand of vegetarianism allowed you to eat fish, you could get by. But it was a lot tougher for those who...
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