The entire world can’t seem to get enough of Japan. It regularly appears in top-ten lists of desirable tourism destinations. Its food, be it high-end sushi or a Styrofoam cup .....
The setbacks experienced by Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party in the July 2025 parliamentary election came as a surprise to no one. The faltering economy, the recent doubling of rice prices, .....
It should come as no surprise that, despite living here for years, I don’t fully fit into Japanese society. My mediocre language skills have a lot to do with it. .....
Another year, another crisis in the Middle East. This time, Israel and the United States dumped explosives on Iran, trying to weaken the nuclear ambitions of the Islamic Republic. This .....
I was hungry once, so I dropped into an Italian restaurant in my neighborhood. But this wasn’t your typical Japan-based Italian spot, where all the staff and all the customers .....
Mercari (メルカリ) is a Japanese e-commerce powerhouse, managing online sales and auctions valued at over 100 billion yen annually. Despite being founded just over a decade ago, it already competes .....
Japan, it turns out, has lots of paperwork. Citizens are somehow able to jet right past the formalities, be they printed forms in triplicate or nineties-era web pages. For locals, .....
Foreign residents are often filled with a sense of wonder when they first arrive in Japan. Everywhere we look, from Mount Fuji in the distance to the bowl of affordably .....
