What’s New Around Tokyo Station This Month: February 2021 With Tokyo’s state of emergency extended for yet another month, many of you will no doubt…
Japan Covid-19 Vaccine: History, Present, and Future Since the novel coronavirus sprung silently from its epicenter in Wuhan a year ago, it…
TW Pop Culture Update: Japanese Celebrities Get “Busy” The Japanese government has been trying for years to improve the country’s birth rate by…
I Had Covid and This is What I Want to Say: #KansenShitakaraTsutaetai on Twitter Shares True Stories of Covid Patients in Japan It has been a little over a year since the first Covid-19 news reports were…
Trainspotting in Tokyo: The 5 Best Places For Railway Photography in the City For most Tokyoites, trains are just another part of daily life. They are a means…
7 Things To Look Forward To In Japan in 2021 Let’s be thankful that 2020 is behind us — that’s probably all we need to…
‘Commuting to Work’ and ‘After-Work Drinks’ Among Top Pointless Old Habits in Japan: Survey Old habits are hard to break — until a pandemic hits us and we find…
Japan’s Ingenious Notepad Lets You Travel the World One Page at a Time Autumn leaves in the Kyoto air, a winding path on a hill, lined with centuries-old…
[UPDATE] 10 Q&As About Japan’s Second State of Emergency On New Year’s Eve, Tokyo confirmed 1,337 new Covid-19 infections, the highest single-day record for…
How Well Did You Follow Japan’s News This Year? Take This 2020 Quiz to Find Out! A lot happened in 2020 in Japan. From joining the world in its fight against…
TW Pop Culture Update: Saying Goodbye to Arashi and Mitsuyo Asaka While Erika Toda Ties The Knot The Japanese boy band Arashi has been active for 20 years now, and even after…
What’s Next for Tokyo’s Hotels? — An Interview With Hoshino Resorts’ CEO Yoshiharu Hoshino Yoshiharu Hoshino says Covid-19’s impact on the hotel ecosystem was the same as that rogue asteroid…
Social Media Furious After CEO of Cosmetic Company DHC Uses Racial Slur Online “For some reason, the models hired for Suntory’s commercials are almost all Korean-Japanese. And that’s…
Japan Selects ‘Mitsu’ (Dense) Character to Define 2020 As the timing to select the Chinese character best describing the year approached, it wasn’t…
The Life of Sakae Menda, the Man who Spent 34 Years in Prison for Crime He Didn’t Commit Human rights activist Sakae Menda passed away this week from natural causes at the age…
