Some of the crafts are primarily associated with the rebuilding of shrines and temples; others, in the building and refurbishment of traditional urban and farm houses.
Because it is so spacious, a visit to this park at any time of the year lets you forget that you are in the greatest single...
We had only met twice as far as I can recall. But, his cheery greeting to a minor academic decades after our last meeting epitomizes the...
～Take a slow train ride. There is impressive mountain and forest scenery even within Tokyo itself.～ Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you...
This is the translation of a book published in 2014. Except for a three page epilogue written in 2019, it has not been otherwise updated...
Shortly before the Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo closed on August 31, Motoko Rich expressed an interest in the closing on Twitter. Since I myself...
The COVID-19 epidemic has nearly eliminated foreign tourists from Japan. While this means economic loss for tourism oriented businesses and their workers, it also means...
On Monday, August 31, Toshimaen, a “retro amusement park” in Tokyo, ended 94 years of operation. A large portion of the site will...
After more than a decade of creeping up from a historical low of 1.26 in 2005, the Japanese fertility rate has once again started declining....
On July 5, Yuriko Koike, the first female governor of Tokyo, won re-election by a wide margin. As widely reported, she received 3,661,371 votes, compared...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign commentators have been ridiculing the Japanese people for reliance on retro technology and clinging to supposedly outdated business practices. Oddly,...
On May 23, Hana Kimura, a member of the cast for the Fuji Television series Terrace House distributed by Netflix, was found dead in...
