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personal drinking water in Tokyo
A lot of the bottled water is disappearing so fast on the store shelves. My suggestion is drink water from a portable dehumidifier that is in you home. It can be boiled if you like, in fact maybe it should be. People with small children need more dri...
Summary of latest quake news
Stock market in Japan continues to collapse, down another 13% today. This is in addition to the 13% drop on opening day Monday. The market in other countries in the region have suffered though less significantly on news of radioactive leak. [NYT]...
7 Tips for Low Budget Filming in Tokyo
Tokyo is an expensive city. However, many films we work on are not big budget monsters. Instead, they are run and gun favors for friends. As such, we end up doing a lot of low-budget shooting on the fly. The video above is the most recent example of...
Hello
Hello Everyone, I'm glad to be here. When I say HERE I dont mean Japan! I mean here on Japan Times. I actually live in Brecon, Wales in the UK. A beautiful town of about 20 thousand people. Flowing rivers and mountains, green fields and blue skie...
Photo Competition Winners
We finally received all of the judges responses and compiled a list of our judges favorite photos from the competition. The judges told me that the standard of submissions were very high and that made their jobs that much more difficult. So before we...
Tokyo News and Gossip
When I was in the UK, way way back when (I exaggerate, I'm not really that old) I fell in love with Japan through a TV show. Looking back, I liked Japan because it was different, interesting and oh so energetic. That's still true but living here has...
Tokyo Tower from Mori Helicopter
The fastest way to Narita airport from central Tokyo - and what a view!!
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Photo Popularity
Big thank you to all who are taking part in the Photo Competition. We have set up a special page for this competition to allow you to see which posts are doing well.
Getting Started on Tokyo.JapanTimes
Thank you for joining Tokyo.JapanTimes. There are a lot of great features we've implemented on the site that we want to highlight. These can help you get the most of this site.
E-mail Posting
Today we are happy to announce email posting capability on Tokyo.JapanTimes. This means members don't even need to log in anymore and can even post stuff from their mobile device when they have some spare time like on the train or in a Monday morning...
Featured Feeds program
So what is this Featured Feed program we have been hearing about lately?
For those who don't know, Featured Feeds is a program where we place each others feed on our sites to share traffic, which is what the Internet is all about. Our users get to d...
Tokyo.JapanTimes Contest winners!
Many thanks to all who attended our successful Launch party which brought together over 400 members of the Tokyo.JapanTimes community. Thank you all for joining us. During the event we held a competition giveaway but didn't have enough time to formal...
Slideshow
I hope you guys like the Slideshow function at the top of the website. A few of you asked about how you could get your content; to show up here. Here's a quick introduction to get your article featured.
The contest and launch party TODAY
A big thank you to everyone who continues to share their wonderful Japan experiences with the community. It's important to remember that your words and experiences, not only wonderful photography are important here. So even if you are not a photo gur...
INSPIRATION
had always seen this statue round my way but never paid it much attention. one day the kid i have a weird bromance with said the statue represented a man who was poor but always studying. could relate to the poor part but felt crappy about not study...
Ferry across the Inland Sea
When travelling overland from Japan to London, the first leg of the journey saw me boarding a ferry for Shanghai. The first 24 hours of the voyage were spent slowly gliding across the Inland Sea, the beautiful enclosed body of water between Honshu an...
About
The Tokyo Times: Tomorrow's news, today.
The Tokyo Times news portal you see today started as a community site in 2009 for people living or interested in Tokyo. The site was expanded upon by formers editors of major English speakers newspapers in J...



