In His New Exhibition, Architect Kengo Kuma Warns Against the Box How do you capture the essence of a nation’s culture? And how do you then…
Olympic Review: Was Tokyo 2020 a Success? Was Tokyo 2020 a success? This is not a rhetorical question; there is no straightforward…
Are the Olympics a Showcase of Japan’s Newfound Diversity or Merely a Show? Professional tennis player Naomi Osaka and Washington Wizards power forward Rui Hachimura lighting the Olympic…
The Olympic Review: Fringe Sports Take Center Stage at Tokyo 2020 I remember the night I fell in love with synchronized swimming. It was mid-summer and…
Medals of Friendship: The Heartwarming Story of the 1936 Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin was very controversial (and we know what that feels…
11 Japanese Athletes To Watch During Tokyo 2020 We interviewed 10 Japanese athletes and one Miyazaki-born British athlete in the buildup to this…
What Economic Impact will the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have on Japan? Eight brand-new arenas, 10 temporary venues, citywide infrastructure from high-tech train stations to heat-blocking pavements, and…
From Tokyo 1964 to 2020: Iconic Tokyo Olympic Venues The Japanese proverb “Nana korobi ya oki” which roughly translates as “fall down seven times,…
Naomi Osaka’s French Open Withdrawal Shines A Spotlight on Mental Health In Sport Naomi Osaka shocked the tennis world on Monday when she pulled out of the French…
Tokyo 2020 New Controversy – The Live Site Project is Coming For Our Parks I think it’s fair to say, even if we are being charitable, that the Olympic…
America Warns Citizens Not to Travel to Japan as Covid-19 Cases Continue to Spread With the State of Emergency likely to be extended, it seems that there is no…
Tokyo Illuminates Select Venues to Mark 100 Days to Go until Olympic Games Olympic venues throughout Tokyo will be illuminated in the Olympic colors of blue, yellow, black,…
Renowned Judoka Toshihiko Koga Dies at 53 Toshihiko Koga, a gold medalist at the Barcelona Games in 1992, died from cancer on…
These Are a Few of 2016’s Stranger Things After a year of celebrity deaths, political upheavals, and what seemed to be a general…
Meet Japan’s Olympic Teen Titans With the 2016 Olympics just around the corner Weekender continues its build up to the…
