Posted in Economy, Food, History, Japan, Web on Mar 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Watashi to Tokyo writes about yoshoku, “Japanese original Western food” as Turkey rice, American dog and Napolitan Spaghetti - a category sadly ignored by Michelin.
Ampontan has an interesting piece on the Imperial Warehouses (Gyofu) where originally the spoils of war were kept - except a Chinese rock (Korosei) of great historical importance these have now […]
Posted in Economy, Japan, Society on Feb 19th, 2008 No Comments »
A Reuters article makes a case for a link between the hairstyle of Japanese women and the state of the economy.
Women tend to wear their hair long when Japan’s economy is doing well and short when there is a slump, the Nikkei business daily reported, citing a survey conducted by Japanese cosmetics company Kao […]
Posted in Architecture, Business, Economy, Food, News, Society, Tokyo, Travel on Jan 7th, 2008 No Comments »
The British newspaper The Independent has undertaken a survey into the relative status of national (and regional) capitals. Tokyo scores fourth overall, behind London (surprise, the home ground of the newspaper), New York and Paris. It is therefore the capital of Asia!
But contenders are giving chase at high speed: Peking, Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong […]
