News Roundup: Vietnamese Intern Bullied and Beaten by Colleagues In this week’s news roundup, we report on a Vietnamese intern who was bullied and…
Covidlympics: A Closer Look at Covid-19 in Japan Before and After the Olympics If Japan’s Olympic critics were looking for a smoking gun, they may well have found…
Vaccinations in Japan: A Remarkable Turnaround Having spent the past few months freely lamenting the patent lack of expediency in Japan’s…
Naomi Osaka’s French Open Withdrawal Shines A Spotlight on Mental Health In Sport Naomi Osaka shocked the tennis world on Monday when she pulled out of the French…
America Warns Citizens Not to Travel to Japan as Covid-19 Cases Continue to Spread With the State of Emergency likely to be extended, it seems that there is no…
Covid-19 in Japan: Latest Updates As of May 31, 2021, the novel coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, has infected 171,018,900 people and…
Covid-19 Vaccine in Japan: Updates To The Waiting Game I gave up on expecting a Covid-19 vaccine in Japan perhaps not long after I’d heard…
Tokyo 2020 vs Tokyo 2021: What the Olympics Will Look Like “A symbol of global solidarity”. The words Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga used to describe the…
Japan Covid-19 Vaccine: History, Present, and Future Since the novel coronavirus sprung silently from its epicenter in Wuhan a year ago, it…
[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…
Traveling Through Japan in the Age of Covid-19: A Personal Encounter I’ve always regarded the notion of traveling in a world without travelers as rather romantic:…
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: Dating During The Pandemic, a Tokyo series What does love look like when we’re not supposed to touch? Well, I asked around.…
Covid-19 Financial Support For Foreign Residents in Japan: What Are You Eligible For? It has been over eight months since the Covid-19 pandemic fully started to affect Japan, and…
My Daughter’s School Takes Her Traveling Because The Gov’t Insists — What is ‘Right’ in a Pandemic? At the start of November, my daughter will be going on her junior-high school trip.…
Covid-19 in Japan: Where Are We Now? It wasn’t so long ago my daily routine was largely confined to a domestic prison.…
