Tokyo Luxury Brand Boutiques: Free Art Galleries to Check Out Foreign luxury brand boutiques are not a rare sight in Tokyo. Both Omotesando and Ginza have…
The Sad Reason We Don’t See Many Japanese Pirate Movies The 16th-century Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga was so good at murder that history —and with…
5 Sustainable Japanese Fashion Brands You Need to Know The Japanese practice of koromogae is the seasonal change of clothing. The next leaf turns around June…
All The Ways To Be Zen at Home In a world fraught with uncertainty, in a global culture plagued by anxiety, people are…
10 Questions With Yangsze Choo, Author of ‘The Night Tiger’ I filled my suitcase with books on my trip home to Malaysia in January 2020,…
On This Day in Japan: Sony Celebrates 75 Years On this day 75 years ago Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Ryutodabi” — An Anticlimax Expect nothing and you will never be disappointed. Expect something and the risk is you’ll…
Getting Lost in Translation at 21 21 Design Sight This week we visit 21 21 Design Sight’s latest exhibition, “Translations.” Full of interactive works,…
4 Traditional Japanese Instruments That Will Make Your Heart Beat These four instruments are not just credited with creating traditional Japanese music, but can also tell…
TW Creatives: Poetry by Joy Waller Tokyo Weekender’s series TW Creatives features various works by Japan-based writers, photographers, videographers, illustrators and other creatives…
New Album Shows that the Sister Duo Kitri are All Grown Up If one were to describe the sister duo Kitri, it would be “in sync” –…
Ed’s Picks: The 5 Best Japanese Albums of Spring 2021 It’s been a busy spring for great new Japanese music. Hip hop has continued to…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Kokki-fukurei” — Self-restraint When the Covid-19 pandemic started last year, one of the keywords bouncing around was 自粛…
Ed’s Picks: The 5 Best Japanese Singles of Spring 2021 It’s springtime, and barrel-loads of new Japanese singles have come out over the past few…
Japanese Learning Apps: Drilling Kanji and More With WaniKani In my quest to brush up and expand my very basic Japanese with only the…
