"I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Before The Japan Times was invited inside Nagoya's iD Cafe to speak to Thomas, the nightclub's security manager, we stopped to chat to a uniformed policeman near the club. He told us there were as many as 50 fights in a nearby park on ...
Naoki Oda Industrial project manager, 41 (Japanese) Kawamura's performance has not been much good because he lacks a dynamic plan to power the Nagoya economy. He has not had much of an impact on its fiscal health. He needs to attract foreign companies and create ...
David Clarke English teacher, 38 (British) Nagoya has everything a big city needs in terms of culture, food and shopping on a manageable scale. Some say the city is too conservative but I have always found people to be friendly and down-to-earth. Also, I like that ...
One day in May, 7-year-old Kaiya Lucente was cleaning her classroom after lunch when she began coughing, her face puffed up and she found it difficult to breathe. Her eyes turned red, and scarlet blotches started to appear on her face. She had had ...
Outside a small town in Gifu Prefecture is a little-known scientific research establishment engaged in a project to "create a sun on the Earth." If successful, this venture will profoundly affect the lives of most people in the world. The National Institute for Fusion Science ...
"Red eggs," says Andrew Hitchings, using the Japanese term for brown eggs, "are better quality than white." Hitchings, a 46-year-old New Zealander who helps run a chicken farm in Gifu Prefecture, says the secret lies in the formula of the farm's chicken feed. Exactly how ...
If miso is part of your daily routine, "you're having a decent life," says Tony Flenley, Japan's only British miso maker. Flenley, who runs a 105-year-old miso company in Osaka, believes the time taken to prepare and eat the soup shows the right priorities ...
