As if Harajuku needed more sumptuously designed temples of commerce. Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku (4-30-3 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, nearest stn: Harajuku) is slated for opening in spring, right on the corner of Meiji Dori and Omotesando St. It will feature American Eagle Outfitters, Tommy Hilfiger, and Baroque Japan Limited, with upper floors offering up the first ...
The ILBS Christmas Charity Fair will be held at the Tokyo American Club on Sun., Nov. 13th, 11 am-3 pm. Entrance fee: ¥500. The International Ladies Benevolent Society charity fair includes Christmas handicrafts and decoration sales, homemade baked goods, white elephants and jewelry, a mini-mart and stationery. Great raffle prizes will also be available with ...
Sep 9 Family Cooking Day ku-ku = cook Sep 17 Cute Adults’ Day Celebrate growing up, not growing old. kyu-to na (kyuuto otona) = cute adults Sep 19 Surname Day On this day in 1870 citizens were given permission to bear a surname—pre-Meiji Restoration this was reserved for the samurai and upper class only. Not ...
But are you a legal alien? There is a host of new developments in the legal whatnot of foreign residents in Japan. Specifically medium- to long-term residents. You will get a new resident card (replacing the old alien registration card, which will be abolished), and you will have to notify if you change your workplace, ...
For British passport applicants For good British gentlemen and ladies keen on getting a new passport for those spicily uniformed minxes to stamp at the airport, take good notice of this news, straight from the Embassy’s horse’s mouth. (Yes, they have a horse.) From August 18, you can still apply to Hong Kong’s Regional Passport ...
At the base of sacred Mt. Fuji, a place where many go to meditate on the peaceful majesty of nature, the astonishing adrenalin-gush of Fuji-Q Highland’s new rollercoaster will now rip that all asunder. Open as of July 16, the hair-raising ride is 1,000m long, hits a max speed of 100km/h, lasts 112 seconds and ...
Former Metropolis cover boy Charles Ayres has released his memoirs as a Kindle e-book. Billed as “the rudest book you’ll ever love,” Impossibly Glamorous teaches lessons on growing up gay in Kansas, becoming a TV personality in Japan, why you shouldn’t date hustlers with Porsches and what to do when your boyfriend prostitutes himself on ...
And the sun will be blotted out the sky...