Socializing and working from home via the internet has gradually become the norm for many, and little do we know that we are secretly...
Tokyo Game Show 2020 (TGS2020), the mecca event for video game lovers in Japan which was scheduled for September 24-27, 2020, is officially cancelled. The...
There is a movement in Japan and the United States to connect supercomputers to study the novel coronavirus, which is raging through the world....
Last of Two Parts (Read Part One here.) Epidemics not Mentioned After the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was defeated badly in the 2009...
In the winter of 2002–2003, the deadly SARS coronavirus exploded out of China’s “wet-blood” wildlife markets. SARS infected over 8,000 people worldwide and killed almost 800....
In COVID-19 times, it’s no secret that we are craving positive stories to keep us afloat and sane. In Japan on Monday, May...
In the not-so-distant past, having robots to welcome guests in a hotel would have seemed futuristic and impersonal. But then came COVID-19, and robots...
First of Two Parts (Read Part Two here) The current fight against the novel coronavirus is only the latest in a series of...
If you've been reading grape Japan lately, then there's a good chance that you know about Amabie アマビエ. Legend has it that the yōkai 妖怪...
At this time in 2019, I was on a very crowded train on the way from Aomori prefecture back to Tokyo. This year, I was...
About five years ago, I contributed a story titled “Anticipating the Cycle of the 3rd Disruptive Revolution” (Daisan no Garagarapon Kakumei ga Okoru Shuki) to...
(Last of Two Parts) Part 1: Growth Disrupted: A Chastened China Girds for Conflict Reading between the lines of Xi Jinping’s recent...