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Want a free case of craft beer? If you send 30,000 yen ($260) or more of your taxes to the town of Yamanouchi in Nagano prefecture, they’ll send you 24 bottles of a locally brewed beer to say thanks.…
MIEKO TERADA moved to Tama in 1976, at about the same time as everyone else there. Back then, the fast-growing city in Tokyo’s suburban fringe was busy with young married couples and children. T…
The New Sky Building in Shinjuku is an amazing structure born from the Metabolism movement, an idyllic type of architecture from the 70's that is supposed to be able t…
A 29-year-old Nepalese student in Tokyo has found herself stuck in limbo with her dreams derailed, and the state of Japan’s language schools is to blame. A survivor of human traf…
Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce, potentially eliminating millions o…
Did you know that a bra temple exists in Japan? If you’re looking for a scary encounter in Japan, there are hundreds of abandoned ruins dotted around the country that will make…
As a newlywed in the 1980s, a Japanese martial arts master named Ichiro expected only good things. He and his wife, Tomoko, lived among the cherry blossoms in Saitima, a prosperous city just outside …
I have just received these cool stickers let me know if you'd like one :) Update: here's what the sticker looks like on my mac:
I am sorry for the week that our website was offline and that it took us so long to bring it back. In spite of all our efforts we were not able to restore the last month of posts. U…
I have come accross this article that talks about electronics market trying to attract women. I wonder how successful they really are - do you really see women around electronics shops in Akihab…
