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Sushi - Vinegared Rice Dishes

Sushi , perhaps the most widely recognized of all Japanese food, is the categorical term for a va...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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I visited some Japanese folks the other day. The husband was gone and I was talking to the mother...

Japan Frank Lev

Japanese Style Vegetables

As with other Japanese dishes, the preparation of vegetables is fresh and simple. Any vegetable c...

Japan Celeste Heiter

The Fox and the Foreigner

What is life but a series of experiences? And in Japan, even seemingly ordinary days rarely fail ...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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Yamanashi Prefectural Museum

Great works of art and beautiful gardens move me. They leave me feeling inspired and refreshed. I...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

How to Make a Basic Dashi

Dashi is the clear seafood broth that is the foundation for many Japanese soups, sauces, dips, an...

Japan Celeste Heiter

After Life

Film Review: After Life

Known in Japanese as Wandafuru Raifu (Wonderful Life), After Life is written and directed by Hiro...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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A Good Sake in Paris?

The typical French sake drinker is a chic, 30-year-old male, ready to splash out on a bottle as a...

Japan AFP/Emma Charlton

Roads Not Taken

We woke up to the sunrise and the shrill caw of morning crows. The plan was to arrive late in the...

Japan Nolan Webb

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Five Seven Five - book review

Title: Five Seven Five Author: Celeste Heiter Photography: Robert George Five Seven Five d...

Japan Ernie Yap

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Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art Tokyo

Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. On exhibit are the works of Japan's artists spanning fro...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

From The Sushi Book by Celeste Heiter, photography by Marc Schultz

Chinese knock-offs feed French sushi craze

The French are crazy about sushi. The number of Japanese restaurants in Paris has jumped 30 perce...

Japan AFP/Jacqueline Pietsch

Soba Noodles with Chicken and Shiitake Mushrooms

Recipe: Toshikoshi Soba

When translated into English, "toshikoshi" means "year passing", and these savory and satisfying ...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Tropical Fruit Selection, Kampot, Cambodia

Cambodia's Coast - from Kep to Sihanoukville

Japan / Cambodia John Lander

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Homelessness in Japan

I have come across homeless people in my travels in Japan. I have seen the tent communities in To...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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World Cup 2002, A Global Festival in Korea

The FIFA World Cup 2002 marks the first global festival of the 21st century. For the first time e...

Japan Doreen Cheong

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Learning To Love the Bomb All Over Again

The world will never be the same. "A new era has begun." "Today America lost its innocence." "The...

Japan Kenneth Champeon

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Japan Stationary Museum

It's on the first floor of a building near Asakusabashi Subway Station. It's easy t...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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Isn't it funny how the qualities that first attract you to a person are often the same ones that ...

Japan Frank Lev

Japan: The Green That Never Ends

When I was in the second grade, some of the kids in my class used to sing the most annoying song....

Japan Will Raus

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