Meet the Sake Brewers Setting Up Shop in the Arizona Desert, Minneapolis and Cambridge Deep in the heart of the American Southwest lies the sleepy, arid town of Holbrook,…
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Will the New Super Mario Movie Finally Get It Right? In a recent Variety interview, Chris Meledandri, the founder and CEO of the Illumination animation…
In the Fold: Introducing the Origami Lunch Box If you ever brought a lunch box from home to school, work or a picnic,…
Japan Government Announces 10-Day Golden Week Holiday for 2019 Start making travel plans, because Golden Week is about to become a little shinier. Japan’s cabinet…
Taste Test: Does Chu-hai Go Better With Coke? Up until now, the only way to get drunk with the help of Coca-Cola was…
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Tokyo Halloween 2018: Best and Worst Moments Captured on Instagram Halloween in Shibuya is one occasion when Tokyo’s normally orderly revelers get a little bit…
Naomi Kawase Chosen to Direct Tokyo 2020 Official Film Japanese auteur and Cannes Grand Prix winner Naomi Kawase was selected to direct the official…
Tokyo Maintains Ranking as World’s Third Most “Magnetic” City In terms of magnetism, or a city’s ability to attract enterprises and creative individuals from…
Sakura Surprise: Japan’s Cherry Blossoms Flowering in October Something strange is going on. While we’re all switching our spring/summer wardrobes over to autumn/winter,…
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…
Tokyo Named Best City in the World for Third Consecutive Year Tom Cruise, who has visited Tokyo well over 20 times and once had a day…
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…
