How a Japanese Woman Became World Champion in the Ancient Indian Sport of Mallakhamb Keiko Takemoto discovered the traditional Indian game of Mallakhamb on YouTube. At the time there…
Japanese Learning Apps: Trying Human Japanese As has been pointed out here before: People are different and they learn languages differently.…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Shichiten-hakki” — Never Give Up Sometimes life throws you a curveball and it can knock you down to the ground.…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Jigajisan” — Singing One’s Own Praises There’s nothing wrong with being proud of yourself, or something you’ve accomplished. Unless you take…
5 Japan Destinations Inspired by Japanese Novels Whether through video games, Netflix or Japanese books, escapism has always been a way to…
List of 7: Notorious Assassination Plots in Japan In a new series of listicle articles, we begin by looking at high-profile assassinations and assassination…
10 Questions With Yangsze Choo, Author of ‘The Night Tiger’ I filled my suitcase with books on my trip home to Malaysia in January 2020,…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Ryutodabi” — An Anticlimax Expect nothing and you will never be disappointed. Expect something and the risk is you’ll…
Getting Lost in Translation at 21 21 Design Sight This week we visit 21 21 Design Sight’s latest exhibition, “Translations.” Full of interactive works,…
New Album Shows that the Sister Duo Kitri are All Grown Up If one were to describe the sister duo Kitri, it would be “in sync” –…
Ed’s Picks: The 5 Best Japanese Albums of Spring 2021 It’s been a busy spring for great new Japanese music. Hip hop has continued to…
Ed’s Picks: The 5 Best Japanese Singles of Spring 2021 It’s springtime, and barrel-loads of new Japanese singles have come out over the past few…
Robert Whiting On His First Years in Tokyo, the 1964 Games and More A fresh-faced GI from a small town in America, Robert Whiting knew little of Japan’s capital…
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…
Do-It-Yourself Duo Santa Dharma: the Power of Meditation, Nostalgia and Experimental Pop The Start They met in a hazy, tightly squeezed hookah bar in Shimokitazawa, a Tokyo…
