12 of the Most Beautiful Places to See Cherry Blossoms Around Japan Each year locals and travelers alike await with bated breath for the much-loved hanami season.…
5 More Podcasts About Japan You Can Listen to Right Now Content creation has been steadily on the rise as of late and audio-based content is…
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…
How Responsible Travelers Can Contribute to Sustainable Islands For more than 20 years, Okinawa has nurtured a growing trend toward achieving sustainability on…
Japan Back Then: The Stories That Gripped the Nations in the 2000s Next in our lookback at the last 50 years of news is the 2000s, a…
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 the pandemic related health and safety restrictions continue, live houses are left out and…
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…
