Most international visitors treat Japan like a two-stop tour: Tokyo, Kyoto, maybe Osaka if they get ambitious. Kagoshima, down at […]
What happens if you get sick in Japan as a tourist? Nobody plans to spend part of their Japan trip […]
You can hide the visa stamps. You cannot hide the programming. 1. You bow on the phone.The other person is […]
Someone on X dropped a letter that immediately went nuclear. A woman went to a regular yakitori place with her […]
TV personality Takei Sō recently posted a photo from a work trip that immediately made people laugh. He thought he’d […]
Summer’s wrapping up and the water’s getting colder, but Kyra Shirahase (sometimes styled Kaira) is making sure we don’t forget […]
On September 2, the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education dismissed a 53-year-old senior teacher at a public high school in […]
A quarter of first-time marriages in Japan now involve a wife who’s older than her husband. That’s a record high, […]
A former female prosecutor who says she was sexually assaulted by the old head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors […]
A woman in her 30s has been living two very different lives. By day she works as a home helper […]
A Japanese creator just pointed out something that sounds almost too strange until you sit with it. Yuh Mashiro published […]
Singer, model, and TV personality Ricca Kanon put it out there on social media at the end of August: she’s […]
Kyoto’s temples have always been photogenic. That’s kind of the point. Beautiful gardens, old wood, quiet halls — of course […]
A guy living in Japan recently got a worried message from his parents. They weren’t asking about work or if […]
Japan is the world’s biggest heated-tobacco market. IQOS and the rest of the “heat-not-burn” lineup just outsold regular cigarettes for […]
Japan’s government just dropped some pretty blunt numbers about how young people actually feel about tying the knot. A large […]