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Kagoshima Get Ready to Rumble SEPTEMBER 2015 Japan’s number one English language magazine TRAVEL SPECIAL GET LOST IN AUTUMN AKITA Once More Into the North KAGOSHIMA Adventuring Around Old Satsuma GET READY TO RUMBLE UFC Action Hits the City ALSO: Photographer Tomohiro Muda Fixes His Lens on the Elements, A Weekend MBA by Way of Montreal, and People,www.tokyoweekender.com Parties, &SEPTEMBER Places 2015 SEPTEMBER 2015 www.tokyoweekender.com SEPTEMBER 2015 CONTENTS 30 KAGOSHIMA SPECIAL Step into the slow life down in Kyushu’s southernmost prefecture 10 12 26 UFC: FIGHT NIGHT JAPAN AKITA TRAVEL SPECIAL KASHIMA ARTS The Saitama Super Arena is getting ready Think you’ve seen all of Akita? Guess Photographer Tomohiro Muda captures to rumble: here’s what to watch for again, fair reader the raw power of the elements 6 The Guide 43 Avan Classico 50 Previews Hot looks for cooling times, pastries well Bringing the timeless elegance of 80s retro video games go on a rampage, worth the queue, and a very dirty Martini Neapolitan tailoring to Tokyo Marvel goes small, and...BILL MURRAY! 28 Kagami Crystal 44 McGill MBA Japan 52 Agenda Generations of technical perfection have This business program is developing Yoyogi saves some of its best festas for last, made this glassware the choice of royalty leaders for the global economy Tokyo goes jazzy, and a full week of breakfast 34 Medipolis Health Tourism 46 People, Parties, Places 54 Back in the Day The new wave in cancer therapy: particle Junko Koshino & co. get dressed up in their A cartoonist’s guide to those moments when beam treatment in resort settings best and a U.N.’s worth of national days you realize you’ve gone native www.tokyoweekender.com SEPTEMBER 2015 THIS MONTH IN THE WEEKENDER a prefecture that seems to have an SEPTEMBER 2015 embarrassment of riches, proves that SEPTEMBER 2015 there are cultural experiences still to Japan’s number one English language magazine be mined in those fields of autumn. On our tour, we drop in on a community festival that combines the grace of TRAVEL SPECIAL courtly dance with the brutality of GET LOST IN AUTUMN group combat in Kakunodate, set foot Publisher BC Media Group AKITA in the primeval beech forest of the Chairman Ray Pedersen Once More Into the North Shirakami Sanchi World Heritage Site, and gaze up at one of the most Executive Producer Asi Rinestine spectacular fireworks displays in all of Editor Alec Jordan KAGOSHIMA Japan. There are a few detours along Art Director Liam Ramshaw Adventuring Around Old Satsuma the way, but we’ll leave those for you Media Director Kotaro Toda to find. Account Executives Nobu (Nick) Nakazawa GET READY TO RUMBLE Then it’s a 180, and we head UFC Action Hits the City southward to Kyushu’s Kagoshima Media Consultants Mary Rudow Prefecture. Satsuma, as the land is still Sophia Bai ALSO: Photographer Tomohiro Muda Fixes His Lens on the Elements, A Weekend MBA by Way of Montreal, and People,www.tokyoweekender.com Parties, &SEPTEMBER Places 2015 Chris Zajko affectionately known, has played a he worst of the season’s significant role in Japanese history, and Marketing Ingrid Dubreuil sweat and heat has while it no longer plays as strong an Yumi Idomoto T passed, and another influence on politics as it did in the Meiji summer has (mostly) run Society Bill Hersey days, it remains a place of inspiration: a out of steam. As the weather’s finally land of fresh air, breathtaking views, Lead Writer Matthew Hernon turning sensible again, it’s time to and strong characters―Buddhist think about doing something other Editorial Associates Sarah Custen priests, shochu makers, and luxury Kyle Mullin than cooling off when you’ve got ryokan owners alike. Natalie Jacobsen time off. There’s a proper, five-day- As always, thanks for your Yuna Uemaru long weekend on its way later in the readership, enjoy your “Silver Week,” month, and what better way to spend Film Christopher O’Keeffe and we’ll see you in October―when we’ll it than on the road? be bearing a bit more editorial content. IT Manager Nick Adams With that thought in mind, Weekender has put together a travel extravaganza for this month’s edition: we hope it inspires you to hit the road, and hit it well. First off is another visit to EST. Corky Alexander, 1970 our neighbors in the north. 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