Whether you want to stay in the labyrinths of the station’s many internal streets or venture out into the business central of Marunouchi, you’ll have plenty to see in and around Tokyo Station. Althou…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

The center of the complex, which is set to open on April 20th, will also host an exhibition space overseen by Mori Art Museum’s Fumio Nanjo. The debut exhibition will be an installation by Yayoi Kusa…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

Although the TPP wasn’t an integral part of the US-Japan relationship, it certainly represented a cornerstone for its future. It’s no coincidence that as soon as Trump said he would be leaving the TP…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

From ground level, it didn’t look like much. In fact, the scene looked like a lot of rural Japan: rice paddies with tender shoots in shades of green, rippling in the wind and stretching off into the …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 5 months ago | 2 comments

I have seen that courier service workers are really busy these days, because of the increase of online shopping. Some of them stop the vehicles and then run with the packages, so that they can meet t…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

Tokyo's city government is seeking to install universal-use toilets for all genders in Olympic and Paralympic venues, according to the Asahi Shimbun.

The city, which will host the upcoming 2020 Olym…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 6 months ago | 1 comment

Autonomous trucks and drones should be handling deliveries in Japan by 2030, the government says, showing a path forward for an overburdened field as part of a timeline for a more fully automated soc…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 6 months ago | 3 comments

Tokyo has magnetism, and it feels endless. What hits you first is the scale. There’s the neon signs, the ancient temples, the skyscraper skylines, all of it mixed together. In the metro area there ar…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 6 months ago | 2 comments

When Japanese bookshops opened up at midnight on Feb. 24 for his book launch event, Haruki Murakami was back in the news and back on our shelves. Although no publication date has yet been set for the…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 6 months ago | 2 comments

Rather than a typical tattoo parlor, the room resembled a tiny school library filled with hundreds of books on everything from paintings to Chinese calligraphy. However, there were some clues pointin…

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