Wayne Hatcher "We are planning a school trip to Japan, and I want you to be the lead chaperone." These were...
Scott Parsons My first glimpse of Japan was of its coastal mountain peaks draped with snow as our plane dipped left in...
Arielle Busetto I found out about this event by accident through a friend. The Umi No Hi festival, now in its 15th...
Arielle Busetto - Tokyo The 7th day of the 7th month. There is something quite poetic in the choice of celebration...
Taylor Bond Hakone is a region of mountainous scenery whose beauty remains constant in every season of the year. It is perhaps...
Taylor Bond For those based in Tokyo, travel expenses can be a make-or-break factor when considering whether to take a trip to regions...
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...
This is our final installment of the 2018 Sakura Photo Contest. Thank you to everyone who submitted photos and contributed to our photo gallery. Please...
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...