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Isamitsu Knives makes their blades in large batches to optimize the use of both the resources at its disposal and its small team of three smiths.
LIFE / Food & Drink
‘A good knife is not only about the steel’
Founded in 2022, the knife-making process at Isamitsu Knives differs from industrial manufacturers in small but significant ways.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Cobble together this Father’s Day raspberry dessert
Each spring, higher elevations, forests and countryside backroads are inundated by foragers in search of mountain vegetables, fruits and berries.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Virtu brings hospitality award home to the country of ‘omotenashi’
This is the first time a bar in Japan has earned the distinction from the Asia's 50 Best Bars organization since it was first awarded in 2020.
Chef Yusuke Murayama’s creative cuisine at Pas Mal spotlights the premium produce of Yamagata Prefecture.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Destination Restaurants
Jun 8, 2024
Pas Mal: French cuisine spotlighting Yamagata’s premium produce
By Robbie Swinnerton
Chef Yusuke Murayama’s signature dessert is a framboise mousse the color of glossy lipstick rouge in the shape of a mouth.
Serve this savory parfait chilled with rustic bread, crackers or other charcuterie.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Jun 8, 2024
Broaden your parfait horizons with chicken liver
By Simon Daly
Spices and herbs can be adjusted to individual tastes or even omitted, but the gelled wine topping is fairly classic, set here with seaweed extract.
Eat like a Buddhist monk — or like a tofu lover who enjoys a bit of deep frying.
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Jun 2, 2024
Vegan dumplings to please any Buddhist monk
By Makiko Itoh
Whatever you call these tasty dumplings, feel free to mix any finely cut vegetables into the tofu base besides the ones in the recipe.
Completed in 1889, the original Yebisu brewery finally has a worthy successor in the neighborhood that still bears the beer's name.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 1, 2024
A new brew for Ebisu, the town that beer made
By Andrew Lee
Ebisu and its beer are unique among communities with drinking histories. Here, the beer named the town.
This is the dish that hooked me on the traditional Japanese ways of the "washoku" kitchen.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Washoku Essentials
May 26, 2024
Land and sea come together in traditional kitchen staple
By Elizabeth Andoh
For a dish of ingredients that display such culinary affinity, the Japanese have a go-to phrase: "aishō ga yoroshii" (good compatibility).
Italian chef and restaurateur Massimo Bottura is increasingly focusing on passing on his knowledge to chefs such as Antonio Iacoviello.
LIFE / Food & Drink
May 18, 2024
Massimo Bottura: 'The Japanese let ingredients express themselves'
By Tan Pin Yen
The renowned chef and restaurateur talks about passing on his legacy and the "transfer of emotions" involved in cooking a successful dish.
Following the success of the Parklet cafe and bakery, Jerry “JJ’ Jaksich has launched his Baby J’s line of chicken sandwiches right next to Tokyo’s Olympic stadium.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 15, 2024
Baby J’s hits a home run with its fried chicken sandwich
By Robbie Swinnerton
Marinated in buttermilk and deep-fried to a golden brown, Tokyo has neither seen nor tasted a sandwich like this before.

J-pop act Mrs. Green Apple spikes ‘Columbus’ video after viewer backlash
Mrs. Green Apple has posted an apology on its official website after backlash over a music video that portrayed explorer Christopher Columbus in a charming way.
Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan
Group A Streptococcus typically causes swelling and sore throat in children, but some types of the bacteria can lead to symptoms developing rapidly.
North Korea building roads and walls inside DMZ, report says
What's believed to be loudspeakers at the top of a hill on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, on Tuesday.
U.S. ran secret anti-vaccine campaign to undermine China during pandemic
A health worker puts on an adhesive bandage after inoculating a man with a booster shot of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Manila in January 2022.
The evolving nature of fatherhood in Japan
Father's Day is said to have come to Japan around 1950, shortly after the establishment of Mother's Day.
G7 leaders unite to hammer China over trade and Russian lifeline
U.S. President Joe Biden joins other world leaders, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, as they watch a skydiving demonstration at the annual Group of Seven summit in Savelletri, Italy, on Thursday.
Calls for Kishida to step down growing among local LDP chapters
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida listens to voters in the city of Kumamoto in April. Liberal Democratic Party politicians are afraid that Kishida's unpopularity could seal their own fates when they stand for local elections.
Renho, the liberal politician who might dethrone Tokyo's Koike
Renho speaks to reporters on Wednesday in Tokyo.
Despite its hardworking image, Japan might be No. 1 in quiet quitting
Only 6% of the Japanese workforce is engaged while a third of the workforce is job hunting or looking out for new opportunities, according to a Gallup report.

Podcast

Yayoi Kusama’s “Pumpkin,” once the victim of high waves that dragged it into the sea, sits at the end of a pier on the south side of Naoshima.
The sweaty pleasure of Japan’s inconvenient art

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Father's Day is said to have come to Japan around 1950, shortly after the establishment of Mother's Day.
The evolving nature of fatherhood in Japan
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