Society
Ama Divers in Mie: Japan’s Legendary Sea Women Keeping Tradition Alive
Explore the vanishing world of Japan’s ama divers in Ise-Shima, where sea women have free-dived for abalone and pearls for over a thousand years.
Based in Japan: Would You Renovate an Akiya in Tokyo?
How Anton Wormann is reviving abandoned houses with a nod to tradition
Things Women Cannot Do in Japan
And why those rules exist and persist
Scrambling Through Shukatsu
Japan’s daunting system of job-hunting for new graduates
The History of Patriarchy in Japan
And how history rewrote women out of power
Domestic Violence in Japan: Every Third Woman
The prevalence of domestic violence in Japan
What Is Japanese Tradition? — Editor’s Letter
Should Japan stay “traditional”?
Does Japan Allow Dual Citizenship?
Short answer, no, but most people have dual citizenship
Teshima: Not Just Another Island
From overgrowth to island icon, a restored 1943 residence becomes a beacon for community revival
Why Do Birth Rates Plummet Every 60 Years During the Year of the Fire Horse?
Debunking an old, sexist myth
Matcha or Macho: The Performative Male
There's so much more to him than being a meme
Masabumi Hosono: The Japanese Man Who Survived the Titanic
Honor, survival and the moral cost of taking the last lifeboat seat
Millennial and Gen Z Work Culture in Japan
How Japan’s Younger Generations Are Redefining Work
Based in Japan: How to Get Permanent Residency in Japan in Two Years with Tokuyuu
And how to achieve Japanese fluency in record time
Red Roofs of Iwami: Historic Townscapes, Preserved and Evolving
Picturesque red-roof villages of Japan—but more than just beautiful
Haikyo, and the Urban Explorers of Japan
Chasing the past
Inside vs. Outside: Japan’s Unwritten Rule of Space
Why uchi and soto still shape how people connect, communicate, and move through everyday life in Japan
Allen-sama: Japan’s “FlopTok” Meme Icon? (Japanese Internet Culture)
Grant citizenship of Floptropica to this diva!
What Slime Mold Revealed About Tokyo’s Railway System
Slime mold biology meets urban design: how a brainless organism confirmed the genius of Tokyo’s railways and may inspire future infrastructure
Why Does Japan Have So Few Trash Cans?
A surprisingly clean mystery
Why Do Japanese People Think Fish Don’t Have Feelings?
Exploring cultural views, science and sushi in the fish-and-feelings debate
Growing up in Japan as a Westerner With Joshua Thomson
Based in Japan: Japanese? British? Aussie? Kiwi?