Sayaka Murata’s novel Convenience Store Woman Allows a Rare Glimpse Behind the Counter “It is the start of another day, the time when the world wakes up and…
Extreme Onsen in Japan: 5 Hot Spring Resorts with a Thrilling Twist For a taste of excitement and adventure while you soak your bones, here are five…
1968 Shinjuku Riot: Dramatic Photos Show What Tokyo’s Violent Rebellion Was Like As this month marks 50 years since the violent Shinjuku Riot (Shinjuku Sōran) of 1968,…
Karate Kid II’s Tamlyn Tomita on Her Most Iconic Roles and Playing Allegra in The Good Doctor TW recently caught up with prolific Asian-American actress Tamlyn Tomita to speak about her two…
Soothe Your Soul with the Beauty of Kyoto’s Hosenin Temple Hosenin is a temple in Ohara district in Kyoto that holds many mysteries and delights…
Bow First, Ask Questions Later: Book Reveals What It’s Like Living in a Japanese Monastery Gesshin Claire Greenwood is probably not what you expect to fit the image of a…
Animation Director Masaaki Yuasa Takes Us Inside His Flamboyantly Surreal Worlds As a young artist, Masaaki Yuasa was mesmerized by the climactic scene from the 1981…
Murakami’s Latest Novel a “Gothic Retelling of The Great Gatsby” The argument that an artist, be they musician, writer, or painter, should come under fire…
Add a Splash of Color to Tokyo with Russian Artist Max Goshko-Dankov Tokyoites will have the chance to pick up a marker and color in-between the lines…
Crossfaith Interview: “We Need to Start Questioning What’s Going On Around Us” Once described as being like “Slipknot tearing The Prodigy limb from limb,” Crossfaith are an…
5 Best Tokyo Music Venues for Dance, Jazz, Rock, Hip-Hop, Electro and More A music lover’s paradise, Tokyo’s alleyways, basements and arenas offer a mind-boggling array of music…
Five Highlights of High-tech Wizardry We Saw at Tokyo Game Show As an engineer straps me into a driving simulator and asks me not to touch…
Guitarist Zane Carney: “Japanese Audiences Allow Me to Be Myself” The first time American jazz guitarist Zane Carney performed in Japan was with a high…
Shop Japan #3: Our Monthly Roundup of Artisanal Japanese Gifts and Souvenirs Looking for something quintessentially Japanese for that perfect gift or souvenir? Each month, we round…
A Day in the Life of an Urushi Artist Mamiko Masumura’s art studio takes up her bedroom. She sleeps on the living room couch…
