Culture
Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to the Islands
Not Your Typical Travelogue
Music Festivals in Japan
After the cherry blossoms, an incredible season of music festivals
Cinematic Underground: Outsider Art
Films by and about the marginalized
Me Against the World by Kazufumi Shiraishi
“Is this book a novel trying to do philosophy or is it philosophy masquerading as a novel?”
Ladybeard’s New Pop Group
Aussie wrestling and rock star Ladybeard debuts in new music group in Japan
Soy Sauce
How shoyu spread to the West and what you can do to be part of its history
The Sound of Their Own Drum
Looprider charts their own path through Tokyo's aural map of genre pigeonholes
WOMB&ME
[Special Promotion] Since opening in 2000, WOMB has been a [...]
In Search of Pink Eiga
Tracking down the last remaining erotic cinemas in Tokyo
Rogue Ichi
How the “Japanese James Bond” inspired Star Wars’ breakout character
The Tattoo Craftsman
Horiyoshi III talks irezumi and the underbelly of Japanese culture
On Bar Row
The story of a US military base and the city of Fussa
Pushin’ Beats
A sample of STUTS
Sekigahara
The greatest samurai battle ever and how it shaped Japan
Quit Your Band!
Despite the overwhelming odds, the underground scene perseveres
(English) Booker Prizes
Where the English-reading expat goes for books
GEIDANKYO, Experience Kabuki Music
[Special Promotion] Every great drama has its own soundtrack. Alongside [...]
Yummy Japan
Youtube collective gets the inside look at Japan
Feeling Unlucky, Punk?
Yakudoshi And Exorcisms In Japan
Lala For You
Musical date spots
The Abduction of Sazae-san
How the beloved Japanese animation was hijacked from the original comic
Tadanori Yokoo
The Japanese Andy Warhol’s Pop Art Pop Up