Foreign visitor target set at 18 million by 2016

8 February 2012, 7:50 am

Japan hopes to boost the annual number of foreign visitors to 18 million by 2016 by repairing the country's damaged reputation as a safe travel destination in its next five-year tourism plan. The Cabinet is expected to endorse the plan to be implemented from fiscal 2012 possibly in March, accord... Read More »

KANSAI: Who & What

4 February 2012, 10:04 am

Limber up for Osaka's full-on 'winter of love' The "Love @ Osaka Project" at Osaka Station City has started, aiming to celebrate Valentine's Day this month and White Day on March 14, the final day of the event.... Read More »

Escape's five of the best travel deals

28 January 2012, 5:00 am

ESCAPE gives you the insiders look into of five the best travel deals this week.... Read More »

Five of the best travel deals

28 January 2012, 5:00 am

ESCAPE gives you the insiders look into of five the best travel deals this week.... Read More »

Star Chef Spotlight: David Bouley On Where He Wishes He Could Be Right Now

25 January 2012, 8:14 am

Forbes Travel Guide asks chef David Bouley where in the world he'd like to be.... Read More »

DNA motor programmed to navigate a network of tracks

22 January 2012, 10:11 am

Expanding on previous work with engines traveling on straight tracks, a team of researchers at Kyoto University and the University of Oxford have successfully used DNA building blocks to construct a motor capable of navigating a programmable network of tracks with multiple switches. The findings, pu... Read More »

Power of Europe's boardrooms captured in new book

22 January 2012, 4:38 am

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe's leading corporations. Magnum pho... Read More »

Power of Europe's boardooms captured in new book

20 January 2012, 11:29 am

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe's leading corporations. Magnum pho... Read More »

Carole Mallory: Pan Am Memories of My Adventures to Tokyo and Kyoto

17 January 2012, 2:15 pm

At Tokyo's airport I kissed Michael 'goodbye' and gave him my address in New York, but after a few letters, I never heard from him again. 'Tokyo Michael' was how I remembered him and don't regret one moment we spent together.... Read More »

2012 Kyoto Prize Symposium Journalism Fellowship Offered by Point Loma Nazarene University

13 January 2012, 9:36 am

Point Loma Nazarene University is accepting applications for its 2012 Kyoto Prize Symposium Journalism Fellowship — a fully-funded, comprehensive educational program designed to enhance a journalist’s knowledge in technology, science and the arts.... Read More »