The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has unveiled an outline of a facility designed to boost young people's communication skills in the English language.

The Tokyo government is planning to open the edu…

posted by  Tanuki | 8 years, 5 months ago | 2 comments

Japanese business and labor leaders are close to a final agreement on limiting worker's overtime hours.

The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, and the country's largest labor organization, Reng…

posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 5 months ago | 2 comments

This novel concept of time banking is Japan’s way of promoting self-sufficiency among its aging population, while keeping seniors active. The scheme also allays the fears of those who feel embarrasse…

posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Apparently, Japan is covered in magical and irresistibly cute animal sanctuaries. We’ve heard about the bunny island and cat island, but there’s also a fox village, where six different species of fox…

posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 5 months ago | 0 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 | 8 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

Japan is famous for its toilets. Japan is also famous for its crafts. So why not combine the two? Well, someone did.

Japanese toilets are somewhat renowned for their technology ingenuity, from the he…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 5 months ago | 1 comment

Way back in 2008, Japanese people literally went bananas over a new diet centered around the yellow fruit. Dreamed up by a pharmacist in Osaka, within weeks of the Morning Banana Diet’s debut, sales …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 5 months ago | 0 comments

Halfway between winter and spring equinox, the plum flowers will start to blossom across Japan. The 88th day of spring marks the first day of tea leaf picking for a new season, and the leaves of this…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 5 months ago | 2 comments

When the bell rings after 4th period, it’s time for lunch.

I need to bring my brimming tray from the staffroom to the class I’m eating with today. A whirlwind of activity threatens my careful ascent …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 5 months ago | 2 comments

To hear photographer Shoichi Aoki describe it, what killed Tokyo’s famous Harajuku style was basically what happens when a glut of factories set up shop at the head of a river that feeds vital waterw…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 6 months ago | 1 comment