If you’re visiting from June till early July, you’ll encounter many different varieties of hydrangea flowers. The most common ones are the mop-headed clusters of blue...
Kotaro Nishibori is one of a handful of craftsmen making traditional ‘wagasa’ Japanese umbrellas in Kyoto out of paper and bamboo, and now he’s bringing his...
Beijing seeks to pull vulnerable island states into its orbit through crippling debt, investing $130 billion USD in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2005 to...
For the first time, Prime Minister Suga expressed optimism for beating the progress of COVID-19, and achieving the concrete aim of “vaccinating 1 million people per...
As China interferes with Taipei’s attempts to procure COVID-19 vaccines for the Taiwanese people during the latest surge in cases, Japan is finding ways to help...
Their 絶叫救急車 zekkyō kyūkyūsha (literally "scream-inducing ambulance") is available through online reservation and will come to your house or specified location at a set date and...
Instead of mobilizing the population, the COVID-19 vaccine initiative is mobilizing tour buses to help bring the vaccine to Japanese in small towns and hard to...
The image manages to capture the double standards permeating the debate when discussing Tokyo 2020 versus Beijing 2022.
This is the first of the “Kimono in the Closet” series, where author Sheila Cliffe will share insights from a years-long research.
“Is it sound,” asks Diet member Haruko Arimura, that “a cultural center of a country ruled exclusively by the Communist Party” be strategically placed in 14...
These wildly popular Japanese photo booths are quick, affordable and produce a souvenir that slips right into your wallet. In other words, they’re a tourist’s best...
The contents are not just candy bars and summer drinks. But by far the strangest assortment of vending machines has to be the bizarre cluster on...