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A digitally remastered version of the original 1954 film directed by Ishiro Honda will be screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) on October 31, the organisers announced on its websi…
When lunch bells ring at Japanese elementary schools, instead of students flocking to cafeterias to eat miscellaneous meat in various shades of beige, or to the playground to eat class-divisive …
Originally the place to go for counterfeit American and Japanese brands in the 90s, Takeshita has always had a fashionable reputation, but it’s cleaned up its act these days. Well-known and feat…
The Tokyoiter is made by illustration and drawing freaks who are willing to present the talent of artists they like to a larger audience. Some of us are illustrators and some are just living in Tokyo…
“Sometimes, I pick coffee based on how big the cup is,” says the 30-year-old with a smile. That’s because it affects his style of creating coffee-cup illustrations that explore ev…
SASAYAMA, Hyogo — Daikokuji temple in Sasayama is dubbed the “Shoso-in of the Tanba area” after the repository in Nara that dates back to the eighth century. Tanba is the area in Hyogo Prefectur…
A Japanese startup firm has given news reporters a look at a rocket that will be launched on Saturday. It is the first rocket built in Japan without assistance from the government. Interstellar …
Line, Japan’s US$8 billion social media giant, today launched a food delivery service. Called Delima, it allows users of Line’s messaging app to order and pay for food deliveries from 14,000 res…
Jordan Fisher came to Japan nine years ago to work in finance. But now the New Yorker is doing something quite different – building a startup. With Zehitomo, he’s working on Japan’s answer to Si…
Line, the sticker-loving messaging app, is struggling to hold onto its users. The social network has just lost 4 million monthly active users in three of its most important markets – the fi…
