Taste Test: Does Chu-hai Go Better With Coke? Up until now, the only way to get drunk with the help of Coca-Cola was…
Naomi Kawase Chosen to Direct Tokyo 2020 Official Film Japanese auteur and Cannes Grand Prix winner Naomi Kawase was selected to direct the official…
Singer Donna Burke Discovers Her Voice on Eminem’s Latest Album When Donna Burke listens to Eminem’s new song “Good Guy,” released August 31 on the…
Remembering TW’s Former Entertainment Editor James Bailey (1946–2018) James Herbert “Jim” Bailey, who previously worked as Tokyo Weekender’s entertainment editor for more than two…
New Shogun TV Adaptation: Why Fetishizing Japanese Culture is Not a Bad Thing Earlier in August, John Landgraf, CEO of American television network FX, felt the need to…
Tokyo Celebrates 150th Anniversary with Uplifting Message Standing before a life-size model of Nihombashi’s Nakamuraza Theatre on the newly remodeled sixth floor…
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay to Start in Fukushima Under the slogan, “Hope Lights Our Way,” the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay will commence from…
The Three Big Rail Mysteries that Defined Japan’s Summer of 1949 In the summer of 1949 in Japan, 10 people lost their lives because of three…
