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HOSPITALITY

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Feb 22, 2020
Satoru Naito: Starting up in San Francisco
Moving to Silicon Valley was a no-brainer for Naito ¡ª it was where Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, and where he knew he¡¯d be inspired to start a business.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Restaurant Do's and Don'ts
Nov 4, 2017
Accessibility, visibility and foot traffic are key ingredients to a restaurant¡¯s success
Try to remember: What was the last bar or restaurant you walked into without knowing anything about it at all ¡ª no recommendations from a friend, no glowing online reviews?
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jun 4, 2017
Trunk lifts the lid on Tokyo¡¯s evolving hospitality industry
There is a long list of reasons to visit Shibuya¡¯s latest addition to its cityscape ¡ª from the craft cocktails served in its roomy lounge to the outdoor terrace with large white cushions and its architect-designed convenience store. Not to forget the pop-up space, four spacious event rooms, a kushiyaki...
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 3, 2017
Spoiled rotten
¡®Excuse me. You need to push the button for the waiting staff to come.¡¯
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 8, 2017
Ken Yokoyama: ¡®Be selfless and look at the big picture¡¯
Former general manager of Hyatt Regency Kyoto on tourism, hospitality and pink Cadillacs.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Mar 5, 2016
Bleak outlook for hotels; Rural districts encouraged to use radio; Seoul to free fishing crew; Embassy helped Americans in Kuwait
100 YEARS AGOWednesday, March 8 1916
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2016
Just what you need: Japanese shop staff compete in the art of the sales pitch
Sell it to me. Sweet-talking sales clerks recently pitted their patter against fellow professionals who know what selling is all about.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 12, 2015
No tolerance at the inns for China¡¯s shoppers
Last August, Nikkei Business magazine reported the travails of a businessman from a regional city on a sales trip to Tokyo. His company¡¯s accommodation allowance covered a maximum of ?8,000 per night, but he couldn¡¯t find a centrally located hotel room for under ?20,000.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Nov 7, 2015
Reality bites
Would you like a drink?
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Feb 28, 2015
Omotenashi ¡ª Japanese hospitality?
As the Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee¡¯s appointed ¡°Cool Tokyo¡± ambassador, multilingual television journalist Christel Takigawa set media buzzing worldwide with her Sept. 7, 2013, speech to the International Olympic Committee in Buenos Aires in which she made great play of the word ¡°motenashi¡± by attaching...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 4, 2014
Tourists may not warm to Â鶹´«Ã½ welcome
A former colleague of mine always made it a point to tell people coming to Japan for a visit to bring lots of handkerchiefs because the public restrooms didn¡¯t have towel dispensers. I always took a more positive view and emphasized that public restrooms in Japan were everywhere and open to everyone,...
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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