10 Exhibitions to See in Tokyo in March 2021 Spring is swiftly approaching and the end of the current state of emergency in Tokyo…
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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…
Pandemic Diaries: Searching for Mindfulness in Tokyo Just about a year ago, Tokyo was flung into lockdown. Stores were closing early, people were…
Actor Ryoma Takeuchi Talks Kamen Rider and 17 Again The allure of becoming a teenager again has long been the muse of actors, writers…
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…
Tokyo Daddy Issues: Shall We Slay Demons or Sith Lords? Tsuyoku… nareru… riyuu wo shitta… Rarely a day goes by that these magic words (and 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…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Yujufudan” — Indecisive Do you struggle to figure out what to have for lunch every day, or do…
10 Questions With Katsura Sunshine, Second Western Rakugo Comedian in History Katsura Sunshine made an immediate impression on me. His happy-go-lucky energy was tangible even through…
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4 Museums You Won’t Want to Miss in Hakone Hakone is a popular and relatively accessible weekend destination for many Tokyoites. While tourism has noticeably…
Suicide Forest Village and the Anatomy of Japanese Horror If there’s one thing that can be said about Takashi Shimizu, it’s that he finds…
What’s New in Ginza This Month: February 2021 As we approach the end of what is hopefully Tokyo’s final state of emergency this…
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…
