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Japan's hotel discounts

by ANNAROSA SABBADINI

The Japan National Tourist Office is making it easier to visit the Land of the Rising Sun. They've ...

Features

You only live twice

by ANNAROSA SABBADINI

The old Tokyo Train Station is like new again, and it’s brought fun into the financial district.

Meet the super-elderly

by ANNAROSA SABBADINI

Just off mainland Japan, Okinawa lives and ages on its own island time

Sacred Japan

by WILL AITKEN

An ancient pilgrimage route takes in Shinto shrines and millennia-old hot springs

I prescribe a trip to... Japan

by DR SORA LUDWIG

An endocrinologist and oncologist discover the beauty of Tokyo and Kyoto in bloom

The new wave

by LASZLO BUHASZ

Set sail with the best high-end cruise line that you've never heard of

The call of Kanazawa

by WILL AITKEN

Ninja and samurai still haunt the streets of this castle town on the sea of Japan

Avant gardens

by ANNAROSA SABBADINI

The world’s most glorious gardens are for anyone interested in peeking into another culture

Japan less travelled

by WILL AITKEN

Hot springs, lacquerware and tatami mats in Yamanaka Onsen

Travel News

Monkey business in Tokyo

by NARISSA TADROS

Kayabukiya, a sake house just north of Tokyo, has gained some notoriety lately because of its unusual wait ...

Upcoming Medical Meetings

May 2013

HIROSHIMA » 86th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
KYOTO » 2013 Japan ACP Chapter Scientific Meeting
TOKYO » World Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgy (WSSFN) Quadrennial Meeting
KOBE » Japanese Society for Bone & Mineral Research/International Bone & Mineral Society 2nd Joint Meeting
KANAZAWA » 14th Biennial Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Society for Sexual Medicine

June 2013

TOKYO » 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Clinical Nutrition

July 2013

TOKYO » 46th Annual Musculoskeletal Tumor Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association

September 2013

KYOTO » 13th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation

October 2013

CHIBA » 28th Annual Orthopaedic Research Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association

November 2013

OSAKA » 12th Congress of the International Xenotransplantation Association: IXA 2013

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Japan

Japan's hotel discounts

You only live twice

Meet the super-elderly

Sacred Japan

I prescribe a trip to... Japan

The new wave

The call of Kanazawa

Avant gardens

Japan less travelled

Monkey business in Tokyo

Upcoming Medical Meetings

May 2013

June 2013

July 2013

September 2013

October 2013

November 2013