2019 Wrap-Up: Tokyo Weekender’s Top 10 Favorite Interviews As we swiftly make our way into 2020, we take a quick look at our…
After an Exciting Weekend of Rugby World Cup Action Only Two Teams Remain The second-to-last weekend of Japan’s time hosting the Rugby World Cup was full of thrilling…
Who is Emperor Akihito? On May 1, 2019, for the first time in 200 years, a Japanese monarch will step…
TW Social: What We Got Up To in March 2019 March was full of stylish encounters. Spot the Queer Eye crew hanging out with Kiko…
Why is Japan Still Biased Against People with Disabilities? Last year’s Sagamihara massacre was Japan’s deadliest mass killing since World War II, and it…
These Are a Few of 2016’s Stranger Things After a year of celebrity deaths, political upheavals, and what seemed to be a general…
Dozens of Suspected Aum Shinrikyo Cultists Detained in Russia, Montenegro The Russian police have raided several shrines and houses in Moscow and St. Petersburg believed…
In Sports This Month: Hakuho Eyes a Thousand Wins and Shinji Okazaki’s Leicester Looks to Shoot the Moon Our look back at the main sport’s stories from March include controversies in sumo and…
Ayaka Ichinose’s Love of Equality Tuning into the state of same-sex rights with model turned LGBT commentator Ayaka Ichinose. By…
3/11: Five Years of Recovering and Rebuilding Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, we…
A Look Back at Japanese Sport in February This month’s sporting roundup features the Tokyo Marathon, a teenage swimming sensation, Japan’s Super Rugby…
The Sporting Year in Japan Gets Off to a Flying Start Olympic joy for the U23 squad, a rising tennis star, a new rugby coach and…
Actor Toru Uchikado Begins His “Heroes” Journey in Hollywood The popular TV show “Heroes” helped turn Japanese actor Masi Oka into a star in…
Facing Forward: Saeko is Back in the Spotlight Between motherhood, fashion shoots, and a return to TV, Saeko simply doesn’t have time for…
Weekender’s 2015 Japanese Sports Round-up From Karne Hesketh’s injury time try in Brighton to Yuzuru Hanyu’s flawless displays on the…
