From #MeToo to #KuToo: Japanese Women are Becoming Bolder Against Misogyny In the face of continued sexualization of and discrimination against women in Japan, a few…
How Fuyuki Shimazu Upcycles Cardboard Boxes to Create Designer Wallets As a struggling art student with no money to buy a replacement for his worn-out…
Best Films We Saw at the Okinawa International Movie Festival TW recently enjoyed a short stay in the sub-tropical climate of Okinawa for the prefecture’s…
Former Miss Universe Riyo Mori: “There Has Been a Shift in Attitude Towards Women in Japan” Riyo Mori caught the dancing bug when she was just four years old. Practicing jazz…
Bartender Turned Singer Yu Imari’s Road to Success: “I Felt As Though I’d Failed” Eight years ago, Yu Imari was close to giving up on his dream of making…
Singer-Songwriter HYDE: “I feel freer now than I did in the past” “The most dramatic and beautiful collection of songs I’ve ever made.” This is how singer-songwriter…
Pop-rock Band DISH// Serves Up a Tasty Sound on Latest Album A pop-rock group with a large domestic following, DISH// started out in 2011 as a…
Photo Essay: Inside the Eerie Exclusion Zones in Fukushima and Chernobyl This month marks the eighth anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a disaster…
BBC’s Gabby Logan: “Japan Was Like Nowhere I’d Ever Been” One of the most respected and recognizable faces of British sportscasting, Gabby Logan has been…
Introducing the J-League’s New Faces for the 2019 Season With the J-League set to kick-off this Friday, TW takes a look at some of…
Japanese Didgeridoo Artist Goma on Facing Death and Becoming a Sudden Savant Just under a decade ago Hiroki Morimoto was involved in a near-fatal traffic accident that…
Actor and Muso Dean Fujioka: “We’re All Capable of Lifting Ourselves to Another Level” The last time TW met actor and musician Dean Fujioka – in 2015 – he…
“One Cut of the Dead” Star Yuzuki Akiyama on the Movie’s Surprise Mega-Success Another zombie apocalypse story, a cast of relatively unknown actors, a micro-budget, and a director with…
2018’s Top Japanese Headline-Makers: The Scandals and Successes As we welcome in a brand-new year, we look back on 20 Japanese headline-makers in…
