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Where To Find The Best Brown Bread in Tokyo

Where To Find The Best Brown Bread in Tokyo

Shokupan, move aside

Where To Find The Best Bagel in Tokyo

Where To Find The Best Bagel in Tokyo

Where to find some of the best bagels in Japan

Yuji Nishida’s Apology: The Final Boss of Japanese Politeness

Yuji Nishida’s Apology: The Final Boss of Japanese Politeness

The sincerest bow the internet has ever seen

The Best Japanese Films for Beginners Learning Japanese

The Best Japanese Films for Beginners Learning Japanese

Why children’s stories and quiet domestic life work better than reading textbooks will

R1, R2, R3 Roppongi

R1, R2, R3 Roppongi

Building a Community with R1, R2, R3 Roppongi

Japan Drugstore Guide: Cold and Flu Medicine

Japan Drugstore Guide: Cold and Flu Medicine

Recommended cold and flu medicine in Japan

The History of Patriarchy in Japan

The History of Patriarchy in Japan

And how history rewrote women out of power

Your Weekly Horoscope November 7 – 14

Horoscope

See what the stars have in store for you this week. World-renowned astrologer Cathryn Moe discusses love, money, luck and all else in this weekly series.

Events In Tokyo This Week

KAWAII Night Market Vol. 1: A Summer Festival After Dark in Harajuku

KAWAII Night Market Vol. 1: A Summer Festival After Dark in Harajuku

Aug 20, 2026 at 11:00am ~ Aug 30, 2026 at 10:00pm

Read The Latest Issue Summer 2026

Summer 2026

Read our latest print magazine online and browse all the locations across Tokyo and the Kanto Region where you can pick up a copy for yourself.

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Culture

Learn the Art of Zen Through this Riceball Making Workshop

Learn the Art of Zen Through this Riceball Making Workshop

Omusubi-Doh English-language workshops

Japanese Whisky

Japanese Whisky

Review of Brian Ashcraft’s ‘Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit’

Fresh ink: Kitagawa Chiyo Conclusion

Fresh ink: Kitagawa Chiyo Conclusion

Read the moving end of the working-class fable “The Silk Sandals”

Tokyo Trends: 90s Fashion in Tokyo

Tokyo Trends: 90s Fashion in Tokyo

Fashion serving as a driving power of social change and art liberation

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Living

Japan Drugstore Guide: Cold and Flu Medicine

Japan Drugstore Guide: Cold and Flu Medicine

Recommended cold and flu medicine in Japan

The History of Patriarchy in Japan

The History of Patriarchy in Japan

And how history rewrote women out of power

Strawberry Picking in Tokyo

Strawberry Picking in Tokyo

Sweet winter berries and countryside escapes in the city

Japan Drugstore Guide: Blister Care and Podiatry Clinics in Tokyo

Japan Drugstore Guide: Blister Care and Podiatry Clinics in Tokyo

The best blister care, foot support and podiatry clinics in Japan

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Community

Left Behind Parents in Japan:

Left Behind Parents in Japan:

Parents challenge Japan’s dismal child abduction laws

February Community News

February Community News

February community news

Gods, Swamps, and Christianity in Japan

Gods, Swamps, and Christianity in Japan

Kubozuka: “SILENCE refers to the silence of God”

Education Special

Education Special

ALA Academy of Language Arts [Special Promotion] Academy of Language…

Dark Clouds Over Idyllic Islands

Dark Clouds Over Idyllic Islands

Finding an end to Japan and Russia’s decades-long territorial dispute.

January Community News

January Community News

Overseas Assets Reporting Law, Japan Free Wi-fi app, and more

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Travel

TRUNK (HOTEL)

TRUNK (HOTEL)

A new boutique hotel mixes social contribution with Shibuya cool

Nikko Travel Guide: Temples, Waterfalls, and Onsen Escapes from Tokyo

Nikko Travel Guide: Temples, Waterfalls, and Onsen Escapes from Tokyo

“Nikko is Nippon,” as they say

Cycling Holiday Tokyo

Cycling Holiday Tokyo

A creative and compact E-bike tour of Tokyo

Things to Do in Nagasaki: Western Influence, Castella Cakes, and Historical Sights

Things to Do in Nagasaki: Western Influence, Castella Cakes, and Historical Sights

A melting pot of East meets West

Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to the Islands

Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to the Islands

Not Your Typical Travelogue

Big in Japan

Big in Japan

Lana Nowakowski chats to the presenter and star of upcoming documentary Big in Japan, David Elliot-Jones.

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Dining

Finding Community Through Food

Finding Community Through Food

The best place for true Filipino food in Tokyo

Porktoberfest and OOOH! Bacon Festival

Porktoberfest and OOOH! Bacon Festival

How natural disaster in Yamanashi formed a decades-long bonds

Village Cellars

Village Cellars

Quality new-world wines in Japan

The Bravest Restaurants in Tokyo

The Bravest Restaurants in Tokyo

Tokyo’s best new restaurants are carving out their place in an untested landscape

Harnet Mega Meat Mart

Harnet Mega Meat Mart

Shop wholesale prices on exclusive meat

Tokyo’s Sri Lankan Cuisine 101

Tokyo’s Sri Lankan Cuisine 101

Rediscovering Sri Lankan food in Tokyo with two of the city’s top Sri Lankan chefs

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Japanese Movies

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Western Movies in Japanese Cinemas

Hunter Hunter

Oppenheimer

Dune: Part 2

Count Me In

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