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…
6 Unconventional Ways to Improve Your Japanese Language Skills Learning a foreign language — especially Japanese — can sometimes be a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to…
TW Pop Culture Weekly: Japanese Celebrities React to Hana Kimura’s Death Last week, emerging pro wrestling star Hana Kimura took her own life after experiencing a…
CWAJ Scholar: Studying in Kyushu to Affect Change in the Middle East There were 156 people on the Zoom conference call. There was a host of esteemed…
A Guide to Peculiar Times: Moving to Kyoto from Malaysia During a Pandemic Despite the international travel lockdowns demonizing small talk everywhere, nothing has yet to make me…
Life in Japan Post-COVID-19: What can we expect? How individuals, nations and the world as a collective deal with life after COVID-19 will…
[Update] Tokyo’s State of Emergency Ends: How It Affects You Tokyo’s first curve is flattened. After peaking with a daily high of 201 confirmed…
Hashtag This: How Japanese Twitter Users Are Talking About COVID-19 Has anybody else fallen into the deepest wormholes of the internet lately? With more time on…
What’s Wrong with Japan’s Testing Policy for COVID-19? During this unprecedented global pandemic, it’s become clear that testing for a new disease is…
This Week in Tokyo Pop Culture News: Shocking Developments When Machiko Hasegawa’s comic strip Sazae-san first premiered in 1946, it caused a bit of…
“This is a huge wake-up call”: Japan Economist Jesper Koll on the Coronavirus Impact As part of Tokyo Weekender’s year-long 50th anniversary celebration we launch a new series in…
Why Japan Shouldn’t Lift Its State of Emergency at the End of Golden Week Living in the age of COVID-19 is like dangling from a giant pendulum that swings…
TW Pop Culture Weekly: Abenomasks Can’t Stop Face Mask Shopping Riots Face masks aren’t a magic bullet for the coronavirus, but they may curb the spread…
