The Keio Plaza Hotel screams elegance. With its many branches in Tokyo's Shinjuku district and other locations, it has always delighted guests with...
Krispy Kreme’s Japan branches have really been delivering when it comes to seasonally appropriate doughnuts. Spring, Christmas, Halloween, they’ve got it covered, and as the biggest...
Norm Nakamura is arguably the most famous non-Japanese shamisen player in Japan, or even in the world. He is the only foreign apprentice of...
The revival of the tatara method of traditional steel production has begun! A new era in traditional Japanese steel (watetsu) manufacturing has been established...
Photo Credit: PR Times While one appeal of Japan's boxed bento lunch boxes is the ability to get an assortment of great food for an...
Kitcho, a restaurant representing the pinnacle of Japanese kaiseki cuisine, is a name familiar to any Japanese food connoisseur. Teiichi Yuki, the restaurant’s founder,...
I bet you won’t guess the shapes that the lights make at the Oi Racecourse this Christmas! In Tokyo’s Shinagawa ward, the Oi Racecourse...
New Year’s festivities in Japan are filled with cultural traditions, and the Tokyo International Forum aims to help Japanese and foreigners alike learn as you...
In March 2018 I learned I was accepted into the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Program, and my placement was Motomiya — a small...
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) Examining territorial changes reveals the nature of countries. One cannot speak of a country’s...
Under the Eaves of a Fan Shop two-fold screen, Edo period, 17th century Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts (Taman Collection) An exhibition...
Tokyo’s Kanda Shrine or Kanda Myoujin, as it is lovingly known by most people who live in Japan, has a 1,300-year history going back...