El Pato

One of Koenji’s best-loved watering holes

Caffè Michelangelo

Art house and jazz in Daikanyama medieval cabin

Reborn In Kumano

Refreshing body, mind and soul in Wakayama prefecture

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

A fitting adieu to Middle Earth

Ken Tanaka

YouTube star smashes stereotypes

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

The most inventive use of 3-D since Hugo

Fall Getaways

Hills, hot springs and autumn hues

Autonomous Author

Iain Maloney on being a foreign author in Japan

Nihonshu Next Door

Ome’s Ozawa Shuzo

Operation Overlord

If Google is God, why can’t he hear me in Tokyo?

Fuji Rock Festival 2014

Still an unmatched feast of sounds

July 31, 2014

Women in parliament, summertime moos, suffer the children and more