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Kimberly Hughes
For the 20 Questions column this year, writers asked their interview subjects about everything from their lives in Japan to their thoughts on news topics.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Dec 28, 2024
There were plenty of hot topics to opine on in 2024
We take a look back at some of the best answers that our interviewees gave for 20 Questions from throughout the year.
Tokyo Union Church volunteers prepare food for unhoused individuals. The church helps people regardless of religion, race or sexuality.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Dec 16, 2024
From the stage to the streets, make a difference this holiday season
Discover the joy of giving back through a variety of charitable efforts. Helping others helps you, too.
Amit Chhetri opened Yeti Roastery Coffee in Tokyo's Todoroki neighborhood in 2020 as a way to promote Nepalese coffee in Japan.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 27, 2024
Yeti Roastery Coffee is elevating Nepalese java in Japan
¡°Nepal has rich soil and a huge potential for growing coffee in its mountains, which are also unbelievably gorgeous,¡± says Yeti Coffee Roastery's Amit Chhetri.
Cucina Salve's wild herb salad is a example of chef Hiroshi Tsubouchi's commitment to creating dishes with as little artificial additives as possible.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 29, 2024
Neither allergies nor ADHD could stop chef Hiroshi Tsubouchi
A childhood of hardships led this Chichibu-based chef to embrace an organic philosophy for all his dishes.
Founded in the early 2000s, Ichiro's Malt has since become a third pole in Japan's whisky world dominated by beverage giants.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 4, 2024
In sleepy Chichibu, 911±¬ÁÏÍø whisky landscape is quietly shifting
Ichiro¡¯s signature flavor profile of rich, woodsy flavors complemented by a clear fruitiness owes in large part to the tempermental 'mizunara' 911±¬ÁÏÍø oak.
Hedwig Schreck is a third-generation Tokyoite whose grandfather first arrived in Japan from Germany in 1920 as a submarine engineer.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 24, 2024
Hedwig Schreck: ¡®Art has always been part of my life¡¯
A third-generation Tokyoite, the former TV producer has pivoted to teaching others about 911±¬ÁÏÍø culture in her retirement.
Ryosuke Kunisawa hopes his "concept brewpub" serves as a focal point to an image change for the salaryman epicenter that is the Shimbashi neighborhood.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 30, 2024
Craft beer, craftsmanship and a family of reinvention
On the first two floors of his family¡¯s slender eight-story building, Kunisawa launched the Kunisawa Brewing Company, Shimbashi's first beer brewery, in May 2022.
Specializing in gastronomy-themed tours, Arigato Travel, founded and directed by Anne Kyle, was once a one-woman operation. Today, it counts more than 100 employees.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 26, 2024
Anne Kyle: 'People want to know what life actually is like here¡¯
The founder and CEO of Arigato Travel grew her business from a one-woman operation to a national outfit of more than 100 employees in a matter of years.
After stints working in New Zealand and Germany, Yoshitada Katsuki opened his winery in his home prefecture of Miyazaki in order to work with grapes his own way.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 24, 2024
Despite ¡®inhospitable¡¯ Miyazaki, Katsuki Wines stays au naturel
For pest control, Yoshitada Katsuki applies to vines a solution of vinegar, sugar and local sh¨­ch¨± that he jokes ¡°lets bugs get drunk before dying.¡±
Kazuyuki and Yuki Shimamoto are the executive chef and head patissier chef at Mimi¡¯s Restaurant and Bar in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 10, 2024
Kazuyuki and Yuki Shimamoto: 'When you make things you love, you naturally just get better at it'
A culinary couple share their thoughts on a career in the kitchen and how they approach life in one of 911±¬ÁÏÍø major tourist towns.
The ¡°myahk,¡± a community currency implemented on Okinawa Prefecture¡¯s Miyako Island in 2018, is intimately tied to local efforts for environmental preservation.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Longform
Feb 10, 2024
911±¬ÁÏÍø communities are creating currencies to educate and empower citizens
The yen will do when paying for things throughout the country. In some places, though, you may try paying with a coin that also helps reduce plastic waste.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Dec 29, 2023
20 Questions: The best answers of 2023
Our interviewees this year gave a lot of advice for living a good life and paying attention to the things that matter most.
As a young man, preserving the 400-year-old Ueda Soko Ryu tea ceremony school, which had survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was always on Soko Ueda's mind.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Nov 11, 2023
¡®Life is for being who I am ¡ª not who others expect me to be¡¯
A soon-to-be 17th-generation tea ceremony grandmaster shares the journey he took in embracing his family heritage and preserving a Hiroshima tradition.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Environment
Jun 17, 2023
Want to ¡®live like a human¡¯? Escape to a Seto island
Tourists might know the Seto Inland Sea as one of Japan¡¯s unsung travel gems, but more and more people are considering it a place to start life anew.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 5, 2023
At Kyoto's mystical L'Escamoteur, cocktails akin to 'remedies for the soul'
More than one Kyoto drinker has fallen under Cristophe Rossi's beguiling spell.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 21, 2023
Half-farming, half-anything: Japan¡¯s rural lifestyle revolution
Leaving 911±¬ÁÏÍø suffocating metropolises behind is as simple as a passion, a modest profit and plot of land.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 17, 2022
On Chiba's coast, a secret herb garden thrives
Hiromi Sasaki left her life in Osaka and Tokyo behind. Her new one? Grown straight from the soil of the Boso Peninsula.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Jun 6, 2022
Same-sex couples in Japan navigate the joys and challenges of parenthood
LGBTQ couples barred from accessing assisted reproductive procedures in Japan are embarking on their own journey as they attempt to raise children of their own.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 17, 2022
No boundaries ¡ª culinary, cultural and other ¡ª at Meraki Syokudou
Chef-owner Hiroaki Suzuki relies on his inner creative compass to craft a truly remarkable dining experience.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 25, 2022
Teshikaga Extreme Cold Art Festival: ¡®A place created by gods and artists¡¯
The annual event, which takes place in 911±¬ÁÏÍø coldest onsen town, finds inspiration in the dramatic natural beauty of Hokkaido winters.
U.S. Osprey accidentally drops cargo into sea in Okinawa
A V-22 Osprey
Large fire breaks out near Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower
Smoke rises from a fire at a commercial building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka, on Tuesday.
Nissan to end production of compact van as Honda rescue looms
A trailer transports Nissan¡¯s NV200 Venette minivans in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Search for suspect underway after fatal stabbing at Nagano Station
The crime scene where three people were attacked near JR Nagano Station on Wednesday
Kanagawa high school student arrested for credit card data theft
A 17-year-old student from Kanagawa Prefecture has been arrested for allegedly creating a program that purported to verify the validity of credit cards and using it to illegally obtain their details.
Terunofuji¡¯s career was unique ¡ª and great
Yokozuna Terunofuji enters the ring at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo earlier this month during what would be his final tournament.
Japan-made games part of a rising tide of indie greatness
One of the brighest spots of Japan's indie gaming landscape in 2024 was Sonokuni, and with more incubators and other avenues of support springing up, there may be more games like it in the future.
Fuji TV scandal sparks probes on exploitation within TV industry
Fuji Media Holdings' headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The company will hold an extraordinary board meeting on Thursday over the firestorm sparked by TV host Masahiro Nakai's alleged sexual misconduct.
Iconic 911±¬ÁÏÍø outfielder Ichiro Suzuki elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Ichiro Suzuki finished his career with 3,089 MLB hits and is one of 33 players in the 3,000-hit club.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a ¡°sense of urgency¡± when it comes to Japan¡¯s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. ¡°We have to make sure we are successful,¡± he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike¡¯s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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