Category : Life

At its most flavorful now, the oddly shaped Japanese spikenard adds a juicy and crisp element to salads....

The United States made English its main language, but in Japan things seem to be heading in a different way....

Ubisoft’s latest game is a gorgeous jaunt through feudal Japan entirely unworthy of the controversy surrounding it....

A weak yen makes rare vinyls a steal for tourists, and locals say it’s all part of a circular musical exchange....

Once the home of Tokyo’s black market, this 6,600 sq. meter district has nearly 300 tiny bars packed into it....

Since reopening two years ago, this ‘kaiseki’ restaurant has been making up for lost time with a culinary flair that presents Toyama’s seafood tradition in...

A growing number of Japanese cheesemakers are gaining international recognition, and some are aiming for a new frontier of flavor....

From the ashes of a devastating 2005 fire, Shinsuke and Ryota Yamagai have remade their family’s historic Niigata restaurant into a beacon of Japanese gastronomy....

Nintendo will remain mum on details until April, but questions on how its new console fits into the modern gaming landscape abound....

A chance encounter with sake evangelist John Gauntner led Brian Hutto to reinvent himself with sake as his new focus....