Kanji Korner

Feminine characters

Phantom Power

Extracts from the new handbook for Tokyo’s spooky season

Iriomote

Dearly remote in Japan’s far-southern isle

Summer Music Festival Guide ’12

From Radiohead to “Radioactivity” this summer will push the power supply to the breaking point

Cloud 9

Edgy 1979 play by Carol Churchill

Build a Bath

The Tokyo Jewish community needs spare hands

Breaking the Stonewall

A rebuilt organization is uniting Japan’s LGBT community

Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2012

Could this year’s Tokyo’s Pride parade reach critical mass?

March 21, 2012

This week’s required reading

Ski Niseko

Japan’s St. Moritz is an international winter playground

The Bee

Hideki Noda’s meditation on revenge returns home for an English run

February 1, 2012

This week's required reading