TRAVEL NEWS FROM THE JAPAN TIMES
Meditation as architecture at a Shizuoka teahouse turned villa
Gaming’s latest culture war targets Yasuke, Japan’s Black samurai
Get started on your at-home garden before the summer hits
Want to be a voice actor? Stay ‘true to the character’
Massimo Bottura: ‘The Japanese let ingredients express themselves’
A new initiative rethinks old Tohoku crafts
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Baby J’s hits a home run with its fried chicken sandwich
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
Recipe: Japanese bread sandwich (yes, really)
The unexpected acolytes helping to keep ninja heritage alive
Sometimes there’s power in quitting
On Japan’s island of olives, age-old shoyu secrets survive
A Californian Pinot Noir bred for the Japanese table
48 hours in Mikuni Minato, Japan’s port town that time forgot