Is The State Of Emergency Being Lifted Too Early? In this week’s news roundup we look at the government’s decision to lift the state…
List of 7: Japanese Songs that Made Waves Overseas With past Japanese songs such as “Plastic Love” by Mariya Takeuchi and Miki Matsubara’s “Mayonaka…
JOC Official’s Apparent Suicide Leads to Wild Online Speculation In our latest news roundup, we look at the tragic death of Japan Olympic Committee…
10 Questions With French-Japanese Singer Ukico Born to a Japanese mother and a French father, Ukico (stylized as UKICO) spent much…
Spotlight: The Story of Japan’s Schindler, Chiune Sugihara Spotlight is a news series profiling influential Japanese people in the 20th century. We begin with…
Naomi Osaka’s French Open Withdrawal Shines A Spotlight on Mental Health In Sport Naomi Osaka shocked the tennis world on Monday when she pulled out of the French…
America Warns Citizens Not to Travel to Japan as Covid-19 Cases Continue to Spread With the State of Emergency likely to be extended, it seems that there is no…
Jake Bugg’s Drummer Jack Atherton Balances Touring the World With His Love for Japan It’s been around a decade since Jack Atherton was chosen as the drummer for a…
Is Shohei Ohtani Starting to Live Up to the Babe Ruth-Level Hype? The Shohei Ohtani juggernaut continued this week with the Los Angeles Angels all-rounder hitting three…
List of 7: Notorious Assassination Plots in Japan In a new series of listicle articles, we begin by looking at high-profile assassinations and assassination…
IOC Insists Nothing Can Stop The Olympics as Tensions Mount It’s been another week dominated by news stories related to the Olympics. Following last week’s…
Is this the Death Knell for the Olympics? Japan’s Anti-Olympic Petition Gains Steam Anti-Olympic Petition Closes in on 200,000 Signatures At the time of writing more than 183,000 people…
On This Day in Japan: Sony Celebrates 75 Years On this day 75 years ago Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo…
10 Japanese Inventions That Changed The Way We Live and Travel Forty years ago this month, Suwa Seikosha employee Yukio Yokozawa received a patent for inventing…
Robert Whiting On His First Years in Tokyo, the 1964 Games and More A fresh-faced GI from a small town in America, Robert Whiting knew little of Japan’s capital…
