If you are in the Tokyo area during the period and crave a slightly different atmosphere, we list a couple of locations outside the capital but...
‘Tennis is interesting because it’s like a video game where you can select a character. We all have our different strengths and weaknesses and that’s what’s...
Loving those red torii gate tunnel images from Kyoto, but just can’t get down there? Never fear; Tokyo can deliver.
Some temples and shrines in Tokyo now offer multi-lingual fortune-telling paper strips that have something to say about work, studies, travel, love, and even health or...
To everyone’s delight, a few enterprising Japanese businesses have also hit upon this question and are working hard to bring book and beer cafes into the...
The blooms started opening out in Okinawa on January 13, and are expected in Tokyo around March 18.
The new prefectures are Hyogo, Kyoto and Osaka in the Kansai region, Aichi and Gifu in the Chubu region, Tochigi in Kanto and finally Fukuoka in...
The entire world has been sitting in a cinema, watching a very bad film without being able to get up. Once the people leave the cinema...
The room is dark. A waiter arrives with bowls of green tea and ice cream. The tea itself is thick and foamy. Within the bowl, something...
There are many things Japan should do, but in terms of geopolitics I would say two things: prepare to go alone without American support, and find...
~‘Normally this is a time for celebration and abundant business…but we need to do something to protect the medical system.’~ Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide...
~Among the 53 largest economies, Japan ranks second in Bloomberg's COVID Resilience Ranking, just narrowly behind the leader, New Zealand~ Which is the best...