Japan’s tennis hot shot is continuing a career in which she’s risen from strength to strength. J SELECT found Ai Sugiyama courtside to talk about her recent volley into the women’s world top ten ranking. When people discuss Japanese professional athletes who have made an impact on the world stage, it’s usually names like Matsui,…

Life in a greenhouse offers an ecological escape from the city. Driving east along the highway, the concrete landscape and high-rise buildings of Tokyo gradually give way to green fields and trees. About two hours outside of the city center, a highway exit leads us into the Japanese countryside, full of bamboo forests, rice paddies…

J SELECT Magazine features takeaway, delivery and mail order services. Lots of vegetables and grill dishes from Sizzler Sizzler is offering a take-away set which includes fresh salad, deli salad, grilled dish, bread and famous cheese toast for 3 to 4 people to enjoy Sizzler at home. Salad Bar at home set includes 1.4kg of…

“Try to imagine Venice or Florence transported to the tropics and left for 50 years without a single coat of paint, a tightened screw, a roof tile replaced.”　Havana Run, Les Standiford The fishermen along the Malecon didn’t seem to be having much luck. “Turismo,” they said, neither resenting the word nor endorsing it, was ruining…

“The whole countryside was full of snakes sunning themselves along the roads and swimming in the ditches and newly flooded rice-fields… Out in Sesshu’s old garden behind the temple, the pond was starred with tiny twinkling water-lilies.”     Japanese Scrapbook, Glenn Shaw As notorious for their eulogies of places as they are for dampening the…