Stephanie Crohin: Japan’s Sento Ambassador Shares the Beauty of Bathhouses It’s not something that came with the title,” says Stephanie Crohin, Japan’s first sento ambassador.…
A Day in the Life of Ladybeard, the Cross-Dressing Pro Wrestler At the eighth circle of hell Dante laments the sight of the blind oracle Tiresias,…
How Fuyuki Shimazu Upcycles Cardboard Boxes to Create Designer Wallets As a struggling art student with no money to buy a replacement for his worn-out…
Photo Story: New Project Showcases Tattooed Women in Japan to Shift Stereotypes In May 2018, Stasia Matsumoto launched her photography project #TattooGirlsJP on Instagram. Already a skilled…
How 3 Modern Japanese Artists Took Inspiration From Living Abroad Tokyo is home to the world’s most impressive museums from Roppongi’s modern Mori Art Museum to The…
Former Miss Universe Riyo Mori: “There Has Been a Shift in Attitude Towards Women in Japan” Riyo Mori caught the dancing bug when she was just four years old. Practicing jazz…
Beginner’s Guide to English-Language Calligraphy Classes in Tokyo Calligraphy brushes, loaded with unforgiving black ink, are hovering nervously over clean white paper in…
Artist Kour Pour Returns to Tokyo with New Perspective Back in his LA art studio Kour Pour has giant wooden platforms that he lays…
What’s It Like to Be a Life Model in Tokyo? “What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the…
4 Events Not to Miss This Spring at Isezaki Mall in Yokohama Always full of life, Isezaki Mall in Yokohama has a thriving event scene. Drop by…
5 Things You Might Not Know About Toko Shinoda Sumi ink painter, printmaker and essayist Toko Shinoda has wowed generations with her groundbreaking artworks…
Mokume Gane: Reviving a Rare Form of Samurai Sword Guard Design The round sword guard of a samurai sword worked as a counter balance to the…
Tokyo Photographer Takes Us Inside the Hidden World of Geisha Lonny Chick came to Japan over 20 years ago with an intense interest in Japanese…
Photo Essay: Inside the Eerie Exclusion Zones in Fukushima and Chernobyl This month marks the eighth anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a disaster…
BBC’s Gabby Logan: “Japan Was Like Nowhere I’d Ever Been” One of the most respected and recognizable faces of British sportscasting, Gabby Logan has been…
