When Gerald Twohig was serving in the military during World War II, he was on a Navy ship bound for Okinawa when word came in August 1945 that atomic bombs had been dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, prompting the country’s surrender.
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Tokyo is once again the world’s starriest city, according to the Michelin restaurant guide, which predicts that even an economic recession won’t dim the allure of good, if pricey, food.
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The bj-league’s 13th team will be known as the Kyoto Hannaries, the league announced on Tuesday. In Japanese, the word “hannari,” is used to describe the elegant character of Kyoto natives. Read the full story
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After going missing for decades in Mexico and an arduous restoration, a mural of renowned Japanese artist Taro Okamoto finds a home for the first time in Tokyo’s Shibuya station
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FUKUOKA (Kyodo) The Fukuoka Prefectural Government said Monday it has detected a large amount of the toxin fenitrothion in a “mochi” sweet product made last month. No health problems have been reported so far, it said. The amount of the toxin found in the product, Enmochi, produced by local confectionary maker Mochikichi, was up to 7,000 times higher than the health standards’ advisory level, …
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CEDAR CITY - Southern Utah University will host Utah’s stop on a 50-state Hiroshima Peace Memorial Traveling Museum Exhibit with a convocation lecture by an atomic bomb attack survivor.
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Tokyo has boosted its record haul of Michelin stars in a new edition of the culinary guide, cementing its status as the world’s top-starred gastronomic capital.
Tokyo wins 227 Michelin stars in a new edition of the culinary guide, cementing its status as the world’s highest-starred gastronomic capital, Michelin director Jean-Luc Naret said Tuesday.
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Twenty-nine disabled people and one parent of a disabled person from eight prefectures — Tokyo, Saitama, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Hiroshima and Fukuoka — filed lawsuits Oct. 31 with district courts in their prefectural capitals contending that a law designed to help disabled people violates the Constitution. The Law Supporting Disabled People and Their Self-Reliance was enacted with the …
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A couple of replies to the query about why people stand on escalators on the right in Osaka and on the left in Tokyo: Wayne says we should tell the reader who asked that it wasn’t so long ago that a person would have “one heck of a time” trying to walk up or down an escalator — period. Read the full story
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