Tokyo

This blade slices, it dices This blade slices, it dices

Top chefs adore them, Rachael Ray sells them, so what's the big fuss about Japanese knives?
By Harris Salat Feb 1, 2008

  • Riding the XX Express

    Mexico City introduces female-only buses in response to growing complaints of groping.
    By Carol Lloyd January 24, 2008

  • "After Dark"

    In Haruki Murakami's cinematic new novel, night owls wander the streets of Tokyo, unaware of the web of coincidences that connects them.
    By Laura Miller May 30, 2007

  • Illusory passions

    The demon temptress in me was hard to kill, but in the end the bad outweighed the good and I had to say goodbye. Last in a series.
    By Cynthia Gralla July 3, 2001

  • Flirting with danger

    Hostesses are offered huge sums for sex, but I know of only one girl who actually went through with it. Sixth in a series.
    By Cynthia Gralla July 2, 2001

  • Special arrangements

    One customer invited me to spend the night in the house he shared with his wife. Fifth in a series.
    By Cynthia Gralla June 27, 2001

  • Believing in fairy tales

    I was trained in the art of poignant, unrequited desire. Fourth in a series.
    By Cynthia Gralla June 22, 2001

  • Fictional devotion

    The art of making men come back for more is a delicate one that mama-sans nurture in young hostesses. Third in a series.
    By Cynthia Gralla June 20, 2001

  • "Shopping" by Gavin Kramer

    A doomed East-West romance set in a Tokyo of brand-name whores and green-tea-flavored condoms.
    By Matthew DeBord May 9, 2000

  • Way to go

    My Japanese cooking teacher drills "the way" into my head. But on the night of a "chef battle," I surrender it to some pathetic pickles.
    By Rahsaan Maxwell May 4, 2000

  • Soaplands and love hotels

    Weaving kitsch, honesty and lather, sex in Japan is as complex as the country itself.
    By Roland Kelts January 8, 2000

  • Flush of the future

    Tokyo's Toto makes toilets that do everything -- whether you want them to or not.
    By Mary Roach October 22, 1999

  • Clueless in Tokyo

    Avatar chat, porn and microwave cooking -- if the Net in Japan isn't good for much else, no wonder it's not a hit.
    By David Lazarus June 28, 1999

  • Tales of a Tokyo stripper

    Tired of teaching English? Try taking your clothes off instead.
    By Bob Blanchard May 28, 1999

  • Tokyo sex wars: Part 2

    By Karl Taro Greenfeld November 10, 1998

  • Tokyo sex wars

    Karl Taro Greenfeld paints an epic portrait of drug demons and sex junkies in Japan's new demimonde.
    By Karl Taro Greenfeld October 30, 1998

  • Sex and the salaryman

    Letter from Tokyo: Dave McCombs reports that Japan's changing fortunes have reached as far as the sex industry, altering the long-standing relationship between commercial sex and the salaryman.
    By Dave McCombs May 8, 1998

  • Apres moi, de luge

    In the second of his daily dispatches from the Olympic Games at Nagano, Gary Kamiya experiences the madness of the luge.
    By Gary Kamiya February 10, 1998

  • The expat's guide to Tokyo

    Inside tips on pursuing business and pleasure in Tokyo without breaking the budget.
    By Mary Beth Maslowski December 15, 1997

  • Crooning the expat blues

    You move abroad, and suddenly you're making more money and dating sexier women than you ever could in the states. So why aren't you happy?
    By Karl Taro Greenfeld September 30, 1997

  • "Planet Star Trek": part 1

    Why the Japanese love Star Trek
    By Jeff Greenwald February 6, 1997
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