Ten Years in Focus: How Photographer Mayumi Suzuki is Honoring Her Parents A Decade After March 11 Searching through the debris of her decimated neighborhood in Onagawa two weeks after the 2011…
Japan Back Then: The Stories That Gripped the Nations in the 2000s Next in our lookback at the last 50 years of news is the 2000s, a…
Day Trips From Tokyo: 24 Hours in Kozushima An idyllic Island shrouded in mystery and legend, Kozushima is a delightful destination off the…
On this Day in Japan: Nintendo Released the First Pokemon Games On this day 25 years ago, Nintendo released two versions of a role-playing game that…
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Emperor Naruhito Emperor Naruhito turns 61 today and to mark the occasion we thought we’d take a…
On this Day in Japan: JAL’s Near Miss Collision Above Suruga Bay On January 31, 2001, two Japan Airlines jetliners dramatically managed to avoid a mid-air collision…
Japan Back Then: The Stories That Gripped the Nation in the 1990s With Tokyo Weekender turning 50 this year, we continue our roundup of news from the…
How Well Did You Follow Japan’s News This Year? Take This 2020 Quiz to Find Out! A lot happened in 2020 in Japan. From joining the world in its fight against…
On This Day in Japan: Women in Japan Were Granted the Right to Vote On December 17, 1945, 75 years ago, the General Election Law was revised in Japan,…
Japan Back Then: The Stories That Gripped the Nation in the 1980s With Tokyo Weekender turning 50 this year, we continue our roundup of news from the…
The Life of Sakae Menda, the Man who Spent 34 Years in Prison for Crime He Didn’t Commit Human rights activist Sakae Menda passed away this week from natural causes at the age…
The First Time Diego Maradona Played in Japan Is Hard to Forget Following the recent death of Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, we’re taking a moment to…
On This Day in Japan: The Shocking Death of Novelist Yukio Mishima On this day fifty years ago, Yukio Mishima completed the final instalment of his tetralogy…
“The Conditions are Barbaric”: Real Stories From Japan’s ‘Hostage Justice’ System In spring 2021, Kyoto is set to host the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime…
The 5 Best Movies of the 2020 Tokyo International Film Festival The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival drew to a close on Monday with Hold Me Back,…
