HAJET Book Club: All the Light We Cannot See
For the first book club of the new JET year, fourteen ALTs found themselves gathering at Tits Park fooled…
Grilled Sanma
 The humidity of summer is finally disappearing, replaced by a slight chill in the air at times and announcing…
Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro – The New Face of an Old Sound.
 Some say funk is dead, but honey, I beg to differ. Starting back in 2003 Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro,…
Big in Japan: Bodybuilding Competition
Inside the crowd was unique and varied. Larger men who wistfully looked up at the stage hoping to…
Clap and Scream: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Her Name in Blood
If you live in Kobe you recognize that there are many amenities the city provides that are harder to…
Cloudy with a Chance of Violence: Protests in Hong Kong
This month we’re branching out from the usual coverage of Japanese current events and taking a look at our…
K-Town
The dark, pungent, and crowded area immediately outside Tsuruhashi Train Station serves as forced introduction to Osaka’s Koreatown. As…
The Durants: part III
 III With a huff, Dr. Carlton dragged his last piece of equipment into the Durants’ home, the aroma…
When It Hits: 5 Albums You Should Listen to This Month
              Although Hyogo Times may have satiated your intellectual and visual cravings with literary and film recommendations, we haven’t…