As images of the devastation in Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate prefectures poured into millions of living rooms worldwide, what began as thoughts and prayers has now sparked into a wave of creative and charitable efforts designed to help Japan recover and rebuild. The sun had barely dawned on March 12 before a number of organizations, ...
Beige Alain Ducasse Tokyo is a collaboration between Chanel and the Michelin star-studded Alain Ducasse Enterprise, bringing to the table what deserves to be called haute cuisine. It’s also the only Alain Ducasse restaurant in Japan, excluding the more casual bistro dining establishment Benoit in Omotesando. Located on the top floor of Chanel’s 10-floor boutique ...
Grabbing a drink after work with colleagues or friends in Tokyo is great fun as there are so many options to choose from. These are some of my favorites from Food Sake Tokyo. Saiseisakaba This friendly tachinomi (standing bar) is located on the back streets of Shinjuku Sanchome. Designed with Showa era items, it feels ...
As the tablet format revolutionizes the way we read, the competition to dethrone the iPad intensifies
Sushi Kaiseki Nogawa not only serves excellent traditional yet innovative seasonal kaiseki and sushi, but is also located in tourist hotspot, Ginza, directly opposite the kabuki theatre, and has staff who can speak English and Mandarin. This rare combination of factors comes about from the fact that Chef Yoshio Nogawa, now 63, spent 38 years ...
Gordon Ramsay may raise living hell in the kitchen but his eponymous restaurant in the Conrad Tokyo on the 28th floor offers a taste of heaven on earth in the form of modern French cuisine that fully indulges every taste, texture and sensory perception, with portions and seasonal ingredients calibrated to leave you supremely satisfied, ...
Tokyoites are generally spoiled by the wealth of so many outstanding French restaurants available. Many Michelin-starred chefs from France have outlets in Tokyo; Joel Robuchon, Pierre Gagnaire, and Michel Troisgros, to name but a few. Included with this group is chef Thierry Voisin, who came to The Imperial Hotel to run the kitchen at Les ...
What gives this compilation of essays on corporate governance and managerial practice in Japan a leg up over other scholarly tomes expounding a similar theme is the extensive and in-depth groundwork conducted with corporate stakeholders—from managers, CEOs, investors, civil servants and policy makers—during a crucial period in Japan’s corporate history: The early 2000s up to ...
If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, a glimpse into a city’s soul is no doubt through her cuisine. Chef, sommelier and Japan-certified shochu advisor Yukari Sakamoto’s book, “Food·Sake·Tokyo,” offers a tasteful insight into Tokyo’s gastronomic galaxy that is sometimes hard to navigate even for locals. Released last month and written ...
In the March edition of the Journal we covered the announcement of Apple’s new iPad device by accessing the views and opinions of some of the leading Japan-based professionals in publishing, marketing and content distribution. Since then the iPad has debuted in the U.S. to mostly rave reviews, accompanied by the now par for the ...
Dan Ariely, author of the bestselling book “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions” (HarperCollins, 2008), is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, where he works at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the School of Medicine, and the Department of Economics. His now ...
Although by now this book ranks more as a classic than as an “of the moment” barometer of Japanese business culture, Ivan P. Hall’s “Cartels of the Mind: Japan’s Intellectual Closed Shop” (W.W. Norton & Company, 1997) still resonates as a vital information touchstone for any foreigner doing business in Japan. With several decades of ...
German multimedia artist Rebecca Horn is currently being treated to her first large-scale, career-tracing exhibition in Japan, courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Horn herself was present at the opening, cutting a formidable presence with long pumpkin-colored hair and sporting steel-toed leopard print shoes that can only be described as awesome. Speaking before ...
At 1,000 yen for 150 quickly-digested pages, Hiroyuki Ishii (石井裕之) and John W. Culver’s book on “black cold-reading”—“The Cold Babble: Confessions of a Pseudo-Psychic” or “Aru nise-uranaishi no kokuhaku” (あるニセ占い師の告白) —was an ironic presence on the shelves in 2009. Picture this: A book with the stated purpose of teaching its readers to recognize and resist ...
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