Yuriko Koike is the governor of Tokyo. She has proposed great reforms for the capital city, and here sets forth her vision for Tokyo...
In the two decades I taught my course “Japan in the Foreign Imagination” at Keio and other Japanese universities, I came to stress that most...
It’s a funny thing about traditions. Small everyday practices continue as they are for years, until events roll around and force a change in mindset....
That’s seal, not Seel. But now it's possible to get a Seel on your seal if you want. In Japan, rather than signing...
Ken Ishii The number of foreign tourists who have name seals (hanko) made as souvenir of their trip to Japan is growing. For most, souvenirs...
