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Culture / Television
Tokyo Limousine Bus Lady
Kaoru Kubo welcomes thousands of travellers to Japan every day. A former announcer for public broadcaster NHK Kubo has, for 23 years, been the voice of the Airport Limousine buses that ferry passengers to and from Narita…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Saturday 5 December
All the fun of the art fair
When is a trade fair not a trade fair? When it’s an art fair, that’s when. The Miami Beach Convention Centre is home to such august annual jamborees as the Professional Convention Management Association and the Internati…
Affairs / Society
Dogs and new tricks
Japan is a nation moving beyond an unthinkable disaster to re-establish itself as a regional leader in culture and innovative lifestyles. This issue we meet the people spearheading the unusual evolution of Japanese society…
Edits / Food & Drink
Called to the bar: Dragonfly
Fondly known as Nino by the regular customers, 28-year-old Nassif Aramouni started working at Dragonfly six years ago and has moved his way up to become chief bartender. Not an easy feat for someone who studied aircraft…
Edits / Food & Drink
Called to the bar: Y&M Kisling
Head bartender Mitsugi Yoshida has been mixing cocktails for six decades, having started in the early 1950s when he was just 18. Yoshida is a legend in the business, and his original Café de Tokyo won third place at the…
Design / Fashion
Copenhagen Fashion Week
With neither city being short on style, the battle between Baltic fashion capitals Stockholm and Copenhagen continues to rage. While Stockholm Fashion Week triumphs with edgier, younger brands, it's Copenhagen that still…
Affairs / Urbanism
Tällberg: Christine Loh
Christine Loh spent spent 14 years in the commercial world before becoming a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. She chose to retire from front-line politics in 2000 to set up a non-profit public policy think tank…
Culture / Television
Mipcom
After the earthquake of internet erosion and an advertising downturn, how does the TV landscape look? At MIPCOM, the TV industry's annual market for shows and ideas both good and bad, culture editor Robert Bound strolls the…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 6 November
Hurricane Sandy and a wind-up radio
One week ago, life in Manhattan was very different from what it is today. There were no rumbling subterranean subway sounds nor beeping taxi cabs.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 29 October
Australian immigration is less scary than we think
It’s that time of year when cities around the world become draped in fake cobwebs and pretend they’re American.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 29 November
Learning to love criticism
Being born in Finland is like winning the lottery. That is an old saying that every single Finn knows.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 19 September
On provocation
“There are only two or three human stories,” said Carl Linstrum in Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers!, “and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that…
Edits / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 10 September
Let’s celebrate Rio without forgetting São Paulo
As a Brazilian I’m very happy with the fact that Rio is hosting the next Olympics but I have a feeling that my hometown, São Paulo, is being forgotten.
Edits / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 30 July
Learning from memory
This will end OK but I am sorry it has a bit of a gloomy start. It begins with a lunch with someone with whom I have been close for years and it concludes with a tree.
Edits / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 5 April
Finns abroad are a modest success
There is something in common between two countries that are very far away from each other, even if at first sight they may seem so very different.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 18 June
A solstice walk on the wild side
If you’re feeling a little out of sorts this week, it might have something to do with the sun. For those of us in the northern hemisphere this is the week with the longest amount of daylight in the year.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 8 May
Can you get by without your phone?
Children can’t concentrate these days. Children? It’s the adults who are the problem.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 1 May
Thinking outside the telephone box
London’s sense of identity has an undeniably old-school feel to it.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 25 April
London needs to grow into the Olympics
So it’s now less than 100 days until the London Olympics. 92 days in fact.