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LIFE

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There are numerous iterations of 'rāyu' (chili oil), and they all have in common a complexion fiery enough to easily ruin your favorite T-shirt.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
I can’t believe it’s not restaurant ‘rāyu’
By Simon Daly
With just a few common kitchen items, it couldn’t be simpler to create a unique chili oil right in your own Goldilocks zone.
Chef Hiroyuki Kosugi’s seasonal salad brings together 10 different local Okinawan vegetables, such as 'goya' (bitter melon), star fruit and 'urizun' (square beans).
LIFE / Food & Drink / Destination Restaurants
6 Six: Innovative French fare from an Okinawan paradise
By Robbie Swinnerton
"My aim is to create dishes that will not be outshone by the view outside my windows," says chef Hiroyuki Kosugi.
Essentially ramen broken down into a few constituent parts, 'tsukemen' was the creation of a Tokyo chef in 1961.
LIFE
How Tokyo’s ‘deconstructed ramen’ became a national favorite
By Cassandra Lord
Like other twists on quintessential Japanese dishes, ‘tsukemen’ has a decidedly more modern origin than you might think.

Travel

Asuka was one of Japan's earliest imperial capitals before the court eventually decamped for other locales.
Travel
Cycling through Asuka, the forgotten capital of ancient Japan
By Edward J. Taylor
During the Yamato Period (300-710), this village was one of the earliest capitals of the nascent Yamato state, even meriting its own aptly named Asuka Period (552-645).
Travel / Longform
Guiding Japan through the challenges of overtourism
By Alex K.T. Martin
Travel
To Relais & Chateaux, not all ‘ryokan’ inns are created equal
By Melinda Joe
Travel
When Japan travels, it doesn’t mind going it alone
By Justin Randall
Travel / Longform
On Okinawa's Tokashiki Island, life's a beach — one of the best in the world
By Lance Henderstein
Travel
Japan's theme parks are ramping up their offerings ahead of summer
By Yuko Tamura
Travel
Meditation as architecture at a Shizuoka teahouse turned villa
By Mio Yamada

Digital

While MyDearest's games are understably digital, employees also joke that sometimes they known coworkers only by their avatars used during meetings.
Digital / ON: GAMES
Action drives VR, but Japan prizes anonymity and plot
By Samantha Low
A far cry from origins as a tech novelty, Japan's virtual reality industry is currently valued at $3.9 billion (about ¥615 billion).
Digital
When will a Japan-made game have a breakout TV adaptation?
By Owen Ziegler
Digital
Gaming's latest culture war targets Yasuke, Japan's Black samurai
By Owen Ziegler
Digital / ON: GAMES
Want to be a voice actor? Stay 'true to the character'
By Samantha Low
Digital / ON: GAMES
Are visual novels ready for a great leap forward?
By Samantha Low
Digital
Retro Japanese video games enjoy intergenerational revival
Digital
With one death, Final Fantasy VII changed the game
By Zachary Small

Food & Drink

There are numerous iterations of 'rāyu' (chili oil), and they all have in common a complexion fiery enough to easily ruin your favorite T-shirt.
Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
I can’t believe it’s not restaurant ‘rāyu’
By Simon Daly
With just a few common kitchen items, it couldn’t be simpler to create a unique chili oil right in your own Goldilocks zone.
Food & Drink
Major Japanese beverage-makers renewing green tea products
Food & Drink
Japan's escargot entrepreneur achieves the 'impossible'
By Etienne Balmer and Caroline Gardin
Food & Drink
Craft beer, craftsmanship and a family of reinvention
By Kimberly Hughes
Food & Drink
At Tony’s Pizza, ‘New York style’ is a state of mind
By Himari Semans
Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Eat your way to a bit of heat relief
By Makiko Itoh
Food & Drink / Kanpai Culture
To Miho Fujita, ‘rules are meant to be broken in the sake world’
By Melinda Joe

Style & Design

The Oku knife "hooks or wraps elegantly along the edge of a plate or board," designer Kathleen Reilly says.
Style & Design
A playfully subversive knife from a rising Scottish design star
By Hugh Carver
The Scottish artist fuses East and West in a new knife design crafted in and inspired by Niigata Prefecture’s Tsubame-Sanjo.
Style & Design
K-beauty or J-beauty? The two 'are not so different these days.'
By Kat Joplin
Style & Design
Paging Dr. Maaya, the neurosurgeon doubling as a fashion designer
By Laura Pollacco
Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
A new initiative rethinks old Tohoku crafts
By Mio Yamada
Style & Design / Longform
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
By Stephen Mansfield
Style & Design
June Ambrose: ‘Cultural appropriation is the best form of flattery’
By Baye McNeil
Style & Design
Yumi Katsura, a pioneer of Japan’s bridal fashion, dies at 94
By Francis Tang

Language

With the vegan lifestyle becoming more popular in recent years, Japanese restaurants and inns have begun to offer more vegetarian options.
Language / BILINGUAL
Asking for food substitutions at a Japanese restaurant
By Yuko Tamura
If you're vegetarian, vegan or have some kind of allergy, then knowing how to ask about what you're eating is an essential skill to have.
Language / BILINGUAL
Tokyo's election day is coming. Are you comfortable talking about politics in Japanese?
By Yuko Tamura
Language / BILINGUAL
Attempting the classics: Decoding Osamu Dazai’s sinister diction
By Eric Margolis
Language / BILINGUAL
Dads like sweets, but some like sweet words even more
By Yuko Tamura
Language / BILINGUAL
Scents and sensitivity: Understanding ‘smell pollution’ in Japan
By Yaeko Kabe
Language / BILINGUAL
Using intransitive verbs to make Japanese ghost stories extra spooky
By Yaeko Kabe
Language / Longform
The language of opportunity: Bilingual education is on the rise in Japan
By Eric Margolis

Lifestyle

Japan has a long history of parasol use, and there's no time like the present to see if they can help you get a bit of heat relief.
Lifestyle
Parasols are an age-old solution to today’s crippling heat
By Kat Joplin
By Japan’s Edo Period (1603-1868), bamboo and waterproofed paper ‘kasa’ (umbrellas) and ‘higasa’ (parasols) were everyday tools and props in kabuki plays.
Lifestyle
Retro barbers, executive facials: Pamper dad with a Tokyo spa day
By Kat Joplin
Lifestyle
Start circling the dates for fireworks season now
By Kim Kahan
Lifestyle
The unexpected acolytes helping to keep ninja heritage alive
By Erik Augustin Palm
Lifestyle
A solution for scorching days: Do everything at night.
By Lara Williams
Lifestyle
One last journey for Japan's oldest steam train
Lifestyle
Take your pick of allergy season's many remedies
By Nina Agrawal
Read more LIFE stories
Tokyo is cheaper to live in than San Juan, according to global survey
Omoide Yokocho in Shinjuku, Tokyo. According to data recently published by Mercer, Tokyo fell 30 places from 2023 and is now the 49th most expensive city in the world, just ahead of Houston.
Japan really should charge tourists four times more
Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture. The mayor of Himeji has suggested that foreign tourists pay four times more to enter the castle than the current ¥1,000 entrance fee.
Unseasonal heat in Japan raises prospect of top-level heatstroke alert
On Monday, a heatstroke alert was issued in 27 of the nation’s 47 prefectures, including seven in the Kanto region.
Number of heatstroke patients in Japan jumps fourfold amid sweltering temperatures
A man takes a break under a cooling mist as the government issued a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Koike eases to victory but Ishimaru's performance signals shift in Tokyo
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Monday.
Tokyo is cheaper to live in than San Juan, according to global survey
Omoide Yokocho in Shinjuku, Tokyo. According to data recently published by Mercer, Tokyo fell 30 places from 2023 and is now the 49th most expensive city in the world, just ahead of Houston.
Number of heatstroke patients in Japan jumps fourfold amid sweltering temperatures
A man takes a break under a cooling mist as the government issued a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan really should charge tourists four times more
Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture. The mayor of Himeji has suggested that foreign tourists pay four times more to enter the castle than the current ¥1,000 entrance fee.
Asami Yoshida bringing experience and swagger to Akatsuki Japan for Paris Olympics
Asami Yoshida (center) practices with Japan at the National Training Center in Tokyo in January.
Kyoto Fusioneering looks toward a 'Made in Japan' approach for nuclear fusion
A gyrotron, which is used to heat plasma for nuclear fusion reactions, developed by Kyoto Fusioneering

Podcast

You can often see generations of families enjoying performances together at Fuji Rock Festival.
Japan’s summer music festivals are feeling the heat in more ways than one

Longform

Several support networks have launched to help startup founders in Japan whose native language isn't Japanese.
As Japan's startup ecosystem grows, so does a supportive community of entrepreneurs
By Kathryn Wortley

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