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Oct 24, 2011 Article
Welcome to Raumen Stadium in Canal City
At gourmet food court Raumen Stadium, eight of Japanes top ramen shops vie to dish up the tastiest noodles. What better way to savor ramens incredible regional differences, without...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Hakozaki Tororo
Japanese Power Food Those huge, off-white, giant carrot-like vegetables that you see on supermarket shelves across Japan are yamaimo (Japanese mountain potato). They can be peeled,...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Welcome to the Neo-Nipponesque New Year
Just a few more sleeps ’til New Year, that midwinter break that schoolkids, senators and salarymen are holding their breath for. Traditionally, New Year’s Eve was a sob...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Christmas in Japan
by Satoshi Kawase For all the talk about the commercialization of Christmas in our modern times the fact remains that it is, indelibly, a Christian holiday. It is the day we celebr...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Oita-Kuju-
Winter wonderland, just a slip-slide away Compared to Hokkaido, Kyushu seems perpetually warm just being further south is enough to suggest we have year-round summers. In reality o...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Mt. Unzen Where Frost Flowers Rule Supreme
You loved Japan’s endless displays of fireworks in summer; you thought winter’s Christmas lights were pretty snazzy (not to mention romantic). But you’ll admit fe...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Martial Arts
for Physical and Spritual Strength Martial arts. The Oxford English Reference Dictionary defines them simply as “fighting sports such as Karate and Judo.” The essence o...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Fuzz
Catch the Fuzz “Atomic design from the 60’s is how owners Juichiro and Mami describe the interior of their tiny but detail rich “”60’s music bar”...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Wine Man Mathias Incandela
I first spotted Mathias five years, unloading wine from a truck near ouroffice. Why was a foreigner delivering wine, I wondered? Later I saw him allover town, chatting with chefs a...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Shitamachi-ya
Nostalgic Downtown Food Shitamachi-ya is a monjyayaki specialty Japanese pub located a few kilometers south of Hakata Station. But what’s monjayaki? Well, it’s an cheap...
