December 25, 2024

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Our Lives

Kumiko Shichijo provides tips on Japanese etiquette and manners on Instagram and says videos on gift-giving and hand towels have done particularly well.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS

Nov 29, 2024

Kumiko Shichijo: ‘Living abroad helped me appreciate Japanese etiquette’

By Ansel Swindells

Worried about committing a social faux pas while in Japan? This manners expert hopes to help you be your most polite while out and about.

After almost a decade of traveling around the world, a working holiday during the 2019 ski season in Nozawa Onsen was to be Rowie Geraerts’ last hurrah before she settled down in Australia.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives

Nov 25, 2024

How a solo yoga teacher built a wellness community in the Japanese Alps

By Samantha Mythen

A budding entrepreneur from Australia, Rowie Geraerts has created Shizen Collective in Nozawa Onsen — a new home for herself, locals and visitors.

Omar Nok arrived in Japan 250 days after leaving Egypt. He didn't use a plane for any part of his journey.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS

Nov 20, 2024

Omar Nok: 'There are good people everywhere'

By Ansel Swindells

Omar Nok says the hospitality he has received from locals at every stop on his journey from Egypt to Japan has been nothing short of inspirational.

Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives

Nov 18, 2024

In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation

By Mike Fu

The latest edition of the Japan Writers Conference was a friendly forum for anglophone writers to connect and converse.

The grey tabby cat Dorayaki is timid and cautious, but a gentle and patient person will certainly gain his trust over time.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!

Nov 18, 2024

Scaredy-cat looking for his safe place

Someone gentle, caring and patient would be the best fit to help this poor thing overcome the fears from his past.

Don Kenny leaves behind a wealth of English translations of kyogen as well as work on other aspects of Japanese culture.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives

Nov 14, 2024

A bridge between kyogen and the world, Don Kenny dies at 88

By Rintaro Dainichi

He came here a soldier, stationed at Atsugi air base after the war, and soon fell in love with the world of Japanese theater.

Gary Perlman has developed a kabuki adaptation of “Madame Butterfly” that he hopes will be performed 100 years from now.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS

Nov 7, 2024

Gary Perlman: ‘Kabuki is pure entertainment … the characters and themes are universal’

By Ansel Swindells

In adapting "Madame Butterfly" for kabuki, the man behind the production hopes to reframe the tale with stronger female characters.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.

Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?

By Kathryn Wortley

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

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Site designer on why expos matter more than ever

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