As Tokyo gets set to host the Olympics and Paralympics after 2020’s false start,
a multitude of behind-the-scenes players have long been exercising their minds to
ensure a gold-standard Games. We meet some of the unsung…
Adaptability is the key to the long-term success of your company. When travel restrictions brought on a sudden loss of business for Hoshino Resorts, the hotel management firm had to change tack. CEO Yoshiharu Hoshino tells…
The fashion designer who oversees Uniqlo’s collaborations and makes outfits for Japan’s Empress Michiko, reveals how food – and a herbal remedy – has informed his work.
Here’s a way to help the planet at your next canapés-and-cocktails party: eat the food. At least, that’s the message of 30.10 (san-maru-ichi-maru), a new Japanese Environment Ministry campaign designed to help cut down…
Weather is difficult to predict; earthquakes are even harder. Now Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) is being sued by the families of five people who died when Mount Ontake – a 3,000-metre volcano on the border of the…
Defying geography is a theme this month with Nordic style in Milan, a US coffee shop opening in Tokyo and gin distilled in Berlin. Stir in Turkish craft beer plus Brazilian kisses and you have a culinary cocktail that is…
From spicing up your lettercraft to adding class to your condiment cupboard plus timeless additions to your kitchen, wardrobe and workspace, here are this month’s most covetable commodities.
Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market might be the city’s must-see for tourists but it’s the Japanese capital’s flower market that’s a thing of beauty and big business.