After a sunny and pleasantly warm weekend in the Tokyo area, rain clouds rolled into eastern Japan on Monday evening. But though wet, foggy atmospheric conditions greeted Tokyoites as they woke up on…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago | 3 comments

Miwa Tanaka, CEO of Waris, is working to make things better for working women in Japan.

Although things are slowly changing, most Japanese women still must leave the workforce when they have children…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

"When we arrived at the park and looked at the map, we made a life-changing discovery: they didn't have just a capybara onsen. They also had a place where you could feed and touch capybaras, too! To …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago | 1 comment

From cute cats and landscapes to the occult and the erotic, nothing was off bounds for this eccentric 19th century Japanese artist. But it was his extraordinary wit and humor that set him apart from …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Kyoto city and the surrounding prefecture are full of historic spots worth a vist, but of course some places are going to be over-hyped. So, goo Ranking recently conducted a survey looking at Kyoto p…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago | 2 comments

It has been 9 years since that nuclear disaster effected Fukushima. I know a lot of people worried for many months after the incident but even now, still there is worry over the radiation and toxicit…

posted by  BarbaraEbara | 8 years, 1 month ago | 1 comment

What are the benefits of staying in Youth Hostels (Ryokans) compared to staying in AirBnB places? And how about the other way round? Please share your opinions for the benefit of travelers.

posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 1 month ago | 2 comments

At some point in life we’ve all thought “why Japanese TV shows are so weird” but are they really? Japanese TV Shows are well known throughout the world as being weird, over the top, obnoxious and som…

posted by  ssj1236 | 8 years, 1 month ago | 3 comments

Construction sites in Japan are enjoying a wave of automation amid an increasing shortage of laborers, with the introduction of robots to do heavy lifting and drones that instantly collect aerial dat…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago | 2 comments

In Japan, currently there is only one model of PlayStation 3: the charcoal black 500GB version. That console’s days are numbered.

As Inside points out, Sony recently announced on the console’s offici…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago | 1 comment