Culture
Saving Athletes: Seiji Iinuma’s Fight Against Sudden Death in Sports in Japan
A lifesaver's mission to make sports safer, in and out of the water
The Return of Japanese City Pop
New sub-genre "future funk" takes us back to the Bubble years
Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul
A retrospective exhibition of the prolific artist's work, running until May 22 at the National Art Center Tokyo
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