Where to Stay in Toronto

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Where to Stay in Toronto

SoHo Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto

Here are Tokyo Journal’s recommendations on places to stay in Toronto’s buzzing entertainment district. They are all within close proximity to the CN Tower, Rogers Centre (SkyDome), Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and the Hockey Hall of Fame, as well as Toronto’s impressive theater scene, The Second City improv theater, Roy Thomson Hall, the Distillery District and fantastic restaurants for all cuisines and budgets.

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Garrity’s Japan

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Published in Editor's Insight

Garrity’s Japan

Revisiting Roppongi

When I first moved to Japan in 1958, Tokyo was, as it is today, the center of action. At that time, Ginza was a hub for all sorts of amusement, with very large coffee shops such as the ACB and the Tennessee Coffee Shops, which held several hundred people and featured American-style Country and Western as well as Hawaiian music.

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Whole Wheat Spaghetti with Pesto and Garlic Shrimp

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Published in TRAVEL & FOOD

Whole Wheat Spaghetti with Pesto and Garlic Shrimp

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Korean-Style Taco

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Korean-Style Taco

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LA: The Birthplace of the Nuevo Taco

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Published in TRAVEL & FOOD

LA: The Birthplace of the Nuevo Taco

Traditional taco trucks and roadside pop-ups have a long history in Los Angeles. But the idea of what a taco is has changed dramatically.

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Mari’s Homemade Cooking Recipes

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Mari’s Homemade Cooking Recipes

How to Make Inari-zushi

Ingredients:

4 sheets of abura-age (deep-fried tofu)
(A) 1.5 tablespoons of sugar
(A) 1.5 tablespoons of soy sauce
(A) 1.5 tablespoons of mirin
(A) 1300 cc of mushroom dashi
1.5 cups of cooked rice (about 180 grams)
(A) 3 tablespoons of rice vinegar
(A) 2.5 tablespoons of sugar
(A) 0.5 teaspoon of salt

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Photographer Hiroyuki Suzuki

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Photographer Hiroyuki Suzuki

“Tool” for “Needs”

In building the right tools for our needs, the Japanese breathe a soul into their products—even into kitchen knives.

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Surviving Nepal

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Published in TRENDS & SOCIETY

Surviving Nepal

It was just another Saturday in the city of Kathmandu. There were the usual sounds of motorbikes and car horns. Shop owners and patrons haggled over prices, while momos and dahl baht were served to a multitude of tourists gearing up for a trek of a lifetime. The Himalayas have created this dynamic world of mingling foreigners, and on this day people were doing as they normally would do in the vibrant and ancient city of Kathmandu.

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Various Styles

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Published in Haitian Culture & Politics

Various Styles

By Marcel Duret and Fred Thomas

There is a traditional painterly approach to painting in which the techniques and styles run the gamut from impressionism, surrealism and symbolism to neo-expressionism, postmodernism and so forth. These artists place figuration at the service of illustrative concerns, whether those interests are philosophical, spiritual, emotional, historical, anecdotal, mythical or symbolical. Paintings by Robert Sylvain, Sylla, Kristo (Christian Nicolas), Dominik Ambroise and Alpi (Alphonse Piard) generally fall into this category.

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Instructor or Educator

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Published in Language & Education

David Nunan’s Global Classroom

Instructor or Educator: What’s the Difference?

Think of all the terms that are used to describe someone who works in the world of learning: teacher (the most commonly used term), instructor, tutor, demonstrator, professor, educator… The list goes on. In this article I want to explore the distinction between “instructor” and “educator.” Let me begin with a story.

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February 26, 2016

Where to Stay in Toronto