Articles

Kodomo beer brewer Yuichi Asaba

Selling beer to children?! Shame on you! What – it’s just juice? That’s a relief. Yuichi Asaba, owner of Shitamachi-ya “Japanese Pancake” shop in Haka...

Daruma

Tempura Temptation While tempura is one of the few Japanese foods that foreigners have actually experienced in their home countries, the reality in Japan is that it’s general...

Halloween 2005 “The fright stuff “

The dark night streets of Fukuoka are soon to echo with the eerie footsteps of ghosts and witches, zombies and werewolves. You can run, but you cannot hide, for Halloween is upon u...

Tony Batista

Softbank Hawks' superstar third baseman Tony Batista poses here with his son Willy at Fukuoka Yahoo! Dome.

Takako Miyasada

Reel Woman Like many of us, Miyasada loved watching films at the cinema from a very young age; but by her late teens she became bored with the works of major studios and fascinated...

Kyushu Basho 2005

The Royal Rumble Comes to Town Next time you feel a tremor beneath your feet, it may not be the aftershocks of the latest ji shin. Dotted around Fukuoka in the coming weeks will be...

Dutch, Part-time Pedestrian Revolutionary

Let your car be squashed to the size of a refrigerator and you'll get a year's free use of public transport!

Sumo Jaya Otsuka

Fight Food Despite having lived in Japan for many years, (and I mean many!), I’d never experienced the famous food of the sumo wrestlers ﾐ chanko-nabe. I assumed it must be f...