Japan Back Then: The Stories That Gripped the Nation in the 1980s With Tokyo Weekender turning 50 this year, we continue our roundup of news from the…
Inside SOD Land, Japan’s New Porn Actress Theme Park That Prioritizes Customer Safety If there is one industry that should know everything about protecting their employees and customers…
Japan’s “Go To Eat” Campaign: What You Need to Know The second stage of the government’s plans to re-energize the hospitality, travel, and retail landscape…
Is This The End Of Japan’s Live Houses? As Tokyo creeps back to some semblance of normality with nightclubs and bars open again,…
3 of The Most Important Green Tea-Growing Regions in Japan Green tea is everywhere in Japan, from the tea ceremonies of Kyoto to the bottled green…
‘Boys Walk First, Girls Follow’ Still Exists in 2020 Japan — And It Often Starts Young In Japan, there are no longer expectations for Japanese women to produce a son. Daughters…
“We Need To Turn Anger Into Education:” Japan For Black Lives Founders Terry Wright and Naomi Kawahara on Why We Should Talk About Racism in Japan In the aftermath of the brutal death of George Floyd, on the other side of…
Black Lives Matter Forever And Everywhere: A Tokyo March It was raining, but nobody minded the weather. Endless rows of transparent umbrellas spread before…
What’s Wrong with NHK’s Black Lives Matter Video and Why We Need to Talk About It Japanese television has an uncomfortable tendency to produce embarrassing (read, racist) videos and programs when discussing topics…
Business in a Pandemic: These are the Industries Doing Somewhat Better Than Many in Japan Right Now Tearing through the globe, shutting down societies, the Covid-19 pandemic is going to be one…
All You Need to Know About How to Receive Your Covid-19 ¥100,000 Stimulus from the Government In late April, weeks after Covid-19 had already deeply scarred Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…
How PM Shinzo Abe’s ¥100,000 Stimulus Payment Is Affecting Japan’s Most Vulnerable Covid-19, 2020. If that were a book, there wouldn’t be a person living today who…
Crushing the Coronavirus In New Zealand: What Can Japan Learn From Jacinda Ardern? While Japan’s government has struggled to form cohesive policies to deal with the pandemic, New…
Softcream Trivia: A Fun Look Into All Layers of Japan’s Most Beloved Ice Cream 2021 will mark seven delicious decades of softcream culture in Japan, since the company Nissei…
Small, Stained and, Actually, Expensive: Why ‘Abenomask’ Is An Epic Fail When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced plans to distribute two cloth masks to every…
