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The Star Wars franchise is about to breach the artistic final frontier with a one-off performance of a kabuki adaptation starring one of Japan’s most revered stage actors. Ten days after th…
Guide will not rate Sukiyabashi Jiro in Tokyo as it is no longer open to the publicThe world’s best sushi restaurant has been stripped of its three Michelin stars. She added: “It was not true to…
Guide will not rate Tokyo’s Sukiyabashi Jiro as it is no longer open to the general publicThe world’s best sushi restaurant has been stripped of its three Michelin stars. It’s because it is no l…
Spanning more than 1,000 years, this is a remarkable work filled with wonderful vignettes of Japanese life and sensibilityIn this delightful anthology, McKinney traces the evolution of travel writing…
The new Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer, which Paramount released this morning, is a giant improvement. Our spiky hero no longer looks like a nightmarish experiment in avant garde taxidermy.…
Japanese women on social media are demanding the right to wear glasses to work, after reports that employers were imposing bans. One woman who works in restaurants tweeted that she was repeatedl…
SoftBank Group, the Japanese tech investor, has slumped to a huge quarterly loss after the valuations of US companies WeWork and Uber plunged. SoftBank’s first quarterly loss in 14 years comes a…
Authorities in Kyoto have banned photography in parts of the city’s main geisha neighbourhood, amid a flurry of complaints about harassment and bad behaviour by foreign tourists in the quest for the …
For the month of August, Microsoft Japan experimented with a new project called Work-Life Choice Challenge Summer 2019, giving its entire 2,300 person workforce five Fridays off in a row without…
World Rugby chairman Sir Bill Beaumont believes the Japan tournament will ‘probably be remembered as the greatest Rugby World Cup’. “We’ve broken records at every level,” said Beaumont a day aft…
