November 29, 2020
SAITAMA — A fermented ginger ale production facility in Minuma Ward, Saitama City, is scheduled for completion next spring with the aim of serving a dual purpose. The fizzy ale is a beverage that ...
More and more izakaya pubs, which are struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic, are changing the way they operate in an effort to attract a wider range of customers. By changing their menus to suit op...
On a trip to Okinawa Prefecture more than a decade ago, I ate a type of food I had never had before and was fascinated by the texture. It was umibudo — literally, sea grapes — also known as green ...
A metropolitan park retaining the nostalgia of Musashino, an old name for midwestern Tokyo, is located just a stone’s throw away from Jindaiji temple in Chofu, Tokyo. Jindai Botanical Gardens is a ...
YAMAGATA — The Zao Onsen hot spring and ski resort in Yamagata is famed for its spectacular “snow monsters” — alpine trees covered in snow and blown into unusual, monsterlike shapes by strong ...
Seeing is believing. But what if the thing you are looking at isn’t real? The Hoki Museum in Chiba poses this question to visitors in a unique way. The museum is dedicated to Realism, an art genre...
The local merchants’ association of Akishima, Tokyo, has created two “Haijima Highballs” using local groundwater, to help revitalize the area. The city is the only municipality in Tokyo that us...
Japan may be the home of sumo, but when Tokyo-based photographer Yulia Skogoreva began photographing wrestlers practicing the traditional sport, she was in Moscow.
And the wrestlers were women.
Sk...
In a year in which anxiety has spiked for many people around the world, Ken and Julia Yonetani’s work has taken on an unexpected — if unsettling — relevance.
The Japanese-Australian artist d...
