Japan’s Foreign Workers Face Job Struggles Amid Pandemic As Japan entered 2020, the Tokyo Olympics beckoned and the tourism industry rode the crest…
Why Japanese Iced Coffee is Trending & 3 Recipes to Recreate at Home After the Internet went crazy for Dalgona, a South Korean frothy coffee that went viral…
Tokyo Revitalization: 7 of the City’s Latest Projects Finally Open In March, as cases of Covid-19 in Japan leaped, much of the city had to…
Life after Covid-19: The Future of English Teaching in Japan The passage of spring 2020 has not been kind to English teachers in Tokyo. The state…
Foreign Residents Still Stranded Abroad by Japan’s Coronavirus Entry Ban A commonly voiced chagrin of the foreigner in Japan is the perpetual sense of being an…
TW Asked, You Answered: What’s Your Favorite Thing About Tsuyu, Japan’s Rainy Season? “Waiting for a few hours of no rain to hang the washing and cursing like…
The TW Pop Culture Weekly: Nozomi Sasaki Not Divorcing Despite Ken Watabe’s Infidelity (Inside Public Restrooms) There’s something ironic about Ken Watabe, co-host of a program called Love Music of all…
Tokyo Teenager Helps Neighbors During the Coronavirus Pandemic One Book at a Time On the banks of the Tama River under the sprawling branches of a zelkova tree…
Can Japan’s Illegal Exotic Animal Trade Lead to Another Pandemic? From the questionable conditions of Joe Exotic’s “zoo” to American politicians’ viral accusations against China,…
TW Asked, You Answered: “Where Is the Strangest Place You’ve Ever Spent The Night in Japan?” Inspired by one of the photo stories in our June issue, this week’s question to…
The COVID Stigma: Lasting Effect on Pubs in Japan As I sat in an uncharacteristically quiet Good Heavens pub last week in Shimokitazawa, with…
Covid-19 in Japan: What Sold Out During the Pandemic First, all the toilet paper was gone. Then the flour. Then all feeling of zen…
TW Pop Culture Weekly: Japanese Celebrities Speak Out for Black Lives Matter The ongoing demonstrations in the United States might have been sparked by the murder of…
What is the Future of Travel in Japan? Japan’s tourism industry soared triumphantly out of the last decade, seeing record numbers for the…
How Yahoo Japan Became More Popular Than Google It’s basically impossible for a Japanese person to go an entire day without interacting with…
