Back on Wednesday, April 2 — the day the James Beard Foundation awards committee named Kumiko a 2025 finalist for Outstanding Bar — owner Julia Momosé found herself in a tight spot — literally.

(Mainichi/Kumiko Yasumoto) TOKYO -- A medical device sales company whose product was removed from the Amazon Japan website demanded the e-commerce giant to "take responsibility precisely because ...

The author is the director of social news at JoongAng Ilbo. I still remember the anticipation of waiting for that boy. From October 1982 through the spring of the following year, I sat in front of the ...

Hoshino Resorts Inc. on April 22 announced the launch of a new brand called “Lucy” after the famed English traveler Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) to serve as bases for mountain tourism.

If you’re familiar with the Japanese art of wood joinery, you’ll likely find kumiko equally intriguing. The traditional craft emerged in the Asuka era between about 600 and 700 C.E. and similarly ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a prison sentence of twenty years has been sought against former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo by the Prosecutor General at the Constitutional Court on Wednesday ...

The experiences of pregnancy and sharing a familial bond with her daughter were particularly inspiring for the song ‘Ocean’, which Holter attests was partially influenced by her watching the Japanese ...

From there, it’s just a short 5-minute stroll to Hakka Leipopo at One Punggol Hawker Centre. The brainchild of Kumiko Tan, 44 and her husband Khoo, also 44, their brand was built on family memories.

This week's repertory movie recommendations are an eclectic assortment of nearly century-old cartoons, important Iranian films, and the first Thai film to win top honors at the Cannes Film Festival.

Ponyo 2008 Hayao Miyazaki 7.7 6.2 15 The Secret World of Arrietty 2010 Hiromasa Yonebayashi 7.6 6 14 Porco Rosso 1992 Hayao Miyazaki 7.7 6.5 13 Whisper of the Heart 1995 Yoshifumi Kondo 7.9 6.9 12 The ...