Matsumoto Koshiro "I will do anything to prevent the coronavirus from extinguishing the fire of kabuki," said actor Matsumoto Kōshirō X in an August 5...
(First of two parts) Kon-chiki-chin. Kon-chiki-chin. The sounds of the rhythmic ohayashi music heard throughout the city of Kyoto accentuates the Gion Festival, the...
Almost 10 years have passed since Akira posted his first kimono image on Facebook. He began to post regularly, and his fashionable kimono images began circulating,...
(Part three of a short series on Hello Work) Part 1: My Hello Work Diary: Filing for Unemployment in Japan Part 2: My Hello Work...
You can call it simple. The room gives off a sense of serenity. The Imperial chamber where the Emperor Emeritus, then the crown prince,...
With its roots going back to the 1940’s, the modern day Omoide Yokocho area has been an ever evolving fixture of Tokyo’s west Shinjuku district....
This fascinating book is the story of the last generation of people to know the thriving metropolis of Edo before it became Tokyoーpeople who counted...
Every year on the 14th of August, the Matsuyama family loads up their car with 10 lanterns in preparation for the yearly Obon rituals on...
Every August, Japan holds a series of remembrances, including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, and the August 15th end-of-war announcement. But one date...
An 83-year-old man, who lost his older sister due to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, has opened up about a precious diary that she...
In 1853 Commodore Perry visited Japan with a complaint. Japan was not a great power which threatened the U.S. Navy, but as the ranges of...
With one of its main premises being based around the possibility of limitless alternate universes, Adult Swim’s popular sci-fi animated sitcom Rick and Morty has continuously...