Tokyo Daddy Issues: Wild Nights at Royal Host There are two types of people who frequent family restaurants: Family types, and people who…
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: From Idea to Reality As the Summer Olympic Games draw closer, we’ve kicked off our Tokyo 2020 Watch series.…
FIFA Fever: Pierre Littbarski on What It Was Like To Win the 1990 World Cup With the 2018 FIFA World Cup set to kick off Russia this month, TW decided…
Tokyo Olympics 1964 vs. 2020: We Compare the Iconic Venues As the Summer Olympic Games draw closer, we’re kicking off our monthly “Tokyo 2020 Watch” series. First…
Knights in White Lycra: Staying Fit While Helping Children in Need Some years back, a group of British friends were sitting in a pub in Japan,…
Barcelona Football Legend Andrés Iniesta is Moving to Japan’s J-League Vissel Kobe this week announced the signing of former Barcelona captain Andrés Iniesta in what…
Tokyo Daddy Issues: Why I Need My Japanese Barber (Even Though I Don’t) In this column I usually talk about my young daughter Hana and myself, with a…
The Poetry and Precision of Japan’s 72 Microseasons It’s here at last: May, the month that traditionally marks the beginning of summer in…
Okinawa Movie Festival 2018: New Japanese Films & Red Carpet Moments The huge downpours couldn’t temper the enthusiasm of the thousands who turned up to see…
Tokyo Daddy Issues: The Secret Taste of Strawberries The other day I was talking to my father about my three-year-old daughter, Hana, and…
The Three Big Rail Mysteries that Defined Japan’s Summer of 1949 In the summer of 1949 in Japan, 10 people lost their lives because of three…
A Tribute to Bill Hersey: We Look Back on the Fascinating Life and Times of TW’s Society Columnist Photographs of celebrities, politicians, and dancers. Statues, masks, and handcrafts brought back from decades of…
Tokyo Weekender Gets a Makeover: Check Out Our Brand-New Look! Tokyo is known for being an ever-evolving city, rebuilding and reinventing itself whether through necessity…
Tokyo Daddy Issues: Culture for Cry-Babies We have started going to concerts again well over a year ago. The other day…
Bill Hersey, Longtime Society Columnist for Tokyo Weekender, Dies at 87 Bill Hersey, who wrote for Weekender since its launch in 1970, died this morning at…
