Taylor Bond For those based in Tokyo, travel expenses can be a make-or-break factor when considering whether to take a trip to regions...
Chelsea Jeter Ah, the onsen—a distant dream for those with tattoos in Tokyo…or so we thought. More and more bathhouses are allowing our...
Luca Vogel Due to its curved geographical shape and chains of mountains separating its regions, Japan is, culturally-speaking, quite diverse. There are many...
The Bullet trains in Japan—Shinkansen—are famous worldwide for their speed, efficiency, comfort, and sheer elegance of shape. They are so elegant, in fact, that...
Read any Haruki Murakami novel and it is easy to tell the inescapable grip jazz once had on Japan. Following World War II, when...
When I was 15, a friend went to a Comic Conference in Italy. The next day he approached me excitedly, raving that “the ramen was...
If you spent any time scrolling through Netflix this weekend, you probably saw a new original animated series called Aggretsuko. The show is from...
Japan is perhaps best known for its cherry blossom season, which sees much of the country turn an eye-catching shade of pink. Tourists the...
Gluten—such a silly word, isn’t it? Phonetically it is just about as annoying as it is for my culinary experience. For those of you...
I saw a monkey in there roaming around once and it didn’t seem out of place. That’s the only way I can effectively introduce the...
For a country widely known for its many varieties of tea, Japan’s appetite has slowly been shifting towards coffee. In recent years, most likely due...
In March 2018, I joined an Upper School global travel trip to Japan with 16 high school students and teachers Saya McKenna and Naoko Akiyama....