Japan

Greek food tastes of sunshine and parched hillsides sloping into clear blue seas. As a series of islands on the edge of the Mediterranean, Greece can “do” seafood extremely well, offering lots of fresh fish and shellfish to the diner who likes that sort of …

Do you think getting treatments done at beauty therapy schools is a good way to save money, or is the savings not worth sacrifice of quality? -Laura P. It depends on your budget and standards, but basically yes, beauty schools are worth the savings. Prices …

The cricket season is pretty much over and winter will soon to be sending a nasty chill around your nether regions. That means no more staggering through Regents Park, pint in hand, watching the cricket, dressed in shorts and not much else until the beginning …

After listening to Japan’s Polysics for a couple of years now we were excited to finally be seeing them in the flesh – then again as the band seem to think they are robots perhaps that isn’t the best description. But this is one band …

Poor (channel) Five. It comes across as Channel Four’s idiot brother doing it’s best to imitate and catch up, but not realising that the only reason that anyone gives it any attention at all is out of pity because it was obviously dropped on its …

So they’re thinking about moving Marble Arch again. The idea is to shift the arch to Hyde Park, near Speakers’ Corner in order to make it more accessible to tourists as part of the 100 Open Spaces project. As the BBC notes, at the moment …

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Continuing the somewhat Japanese theme begun below, Londonist notes that Yukio Ninagawa will be the director of Hamlet at the Barbican starting November 10. Japan’s fascination with Shakespeare is long-standing (see “Othello”, below) and, for this writer at least, perpetually puzzling. Ninagawa’s love of the …

The World Othello Championships come to the UK on November 13, More than two dozen teams will be taking part, with the USA, the UK, France and Japan the leading contenders for the team title. Othello is a curious game, since it shot to fame …