Credit: Misaki Hashimoto YouTube Channel On a cloudy day in late September, I headed for the Tokyo Metropolitan Building (Tocho) to see the famous 45th...
A novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic originating from the central Chinese city of Wuhan is spreading fast. As the epidemic has expanded within China, multiple cities...
Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is the 6th most “instagrammable” place in the world for 2020, according to the annual ranking by the travel site Big...
What is your image of Shinjuku? Perhaps you think of all the tall skyscrapers or the up-market department stores with all their luxury goods....
It was cold and sunny on February 3, but many braved the chilly weather anyway for a very specific event: Setsubun. Setsubun, which is...
We are in the middle of earthquake season now. Yes, there is such a season. At least that is what I call it. Some of...
Researchers estimate the probability of an earthquake in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years is as high as 70% to 80%.
One of the passengers aboard a luxury liner being held in Yokohama Bay says the ship feels like a jail. David Abel, from the United...
Takuya Kitagawa, managing executive officer and chief data officer, Rakuten Inc., will be the keynote speaker at the “Next Generation Roundtable in Tokyo” (NGRT) organized...
An Osaka University team’s transplant of pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into a patient suffering from a serious heart malfunction, which was unveiled by the...
The six-month countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games started on January 24, and the athletes are working hard in anticipation of the competition. ...
A novel coronavirus has managed to spread like wildfire — both physically and in people’s imagination — since early in the New Year. It has...