Chelsea Jeter Ah, the onsen—a distant dream for those with tattoos in Tokyo…or so we thought. More and more bathhouses are allowing our...
Luca Vogel Due to its curved geographical shape and chains of mountains separating its regions, Japan is, culturally-speaking, quite diverse. There are many...
Patrick Kelly In the Seto Inland Sea, a large body of water separating Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—three of Japan’s four main islands—lies the small...
Read any Haruki Murakami novel and it is easy to tell the inescapable grip jazz once had on Japan. Following World War II, when...
When I was 15, a friend went to a Comic Conference in Italy. The next day he approached me excitedly, raving that “the ramen was...
To anyone familiar with Japan it should not come as a surprise that mascots, animal-themed products, and services cover most of the cultural landscape....
Japan is perhaps best known for its cherry blossom season, which sees much of the country turn an eye-catching shade of pink. Tourists the...
If you travel the Kansai area of Japan, you are most likely to visit Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe. But, like Kamakura in the...
Gluten—such a silly word, isn’t it? Phonetically it is just about as annoying as it is for my culinary experience. For those of you...
I saw a monkey in there roaming around once and it didn’t seem out of place. That’s the only way I can effectively introduce the...
For a country widely known for its many varieties of tea, Japan’s appetite has slowly been shifting towards coffee. In recent years, most likely due...
In March 2018, I joined an Upper School global travel trip to Japan with 16 high school students and teachers Saya McKenna and Naoko Akiyama....