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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
LIFE / Travel / Longform
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie
Forget the temples and the famous landmarks. For some visitors, the country’s appeal lies in the infrastructure of daily life.
Gora Kadan, one of Japan's top traditional inns, believes its premier experession of Japanese hospitality could find footing even beyond the country's borders.
LIFE / Travel
Can a traditional ‘ryokan’ inn go global?
By Jessica Kozuka
One of 91AV原创 most acclaimed inns is embarking on an expansion project that might see it open up properties overseas.
Near ideal weather in Hokkaido during this year's potato growing season has led to some of the tastiest spuds the prefecture has produced in recent memory.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Amid potato protests, Hokkaido has its best spud harvest in years
By Simon Daly
Tater lovers, rejoice — supermarkets across the country will soon be awash in superior potatoes thanks to favorable weather in Hokkaido.

Travel

Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Travel / Longform
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie
Forget the temples and the famous landmarks. For some visitors, the country’s appeal lies in the infrastructure of daily life.
Travel
A first look aboard the shinkansen’s new Supreme Class
By Kerri King
Travel
When tourists do the ‘Nagoya skip,’ do they know what they’re skipping?
By Owen Ziegler
Travel
The hip side of Japan the tourists haven’t figured out yet
By Brandon Presser
Travel
Sleep like a Pokemon (for free) at Hokkaido’s Poke Ball-themed hotel
By Owen Ziegler
Travel
How to make the ‘downgraded’ Seishun 18 ticket work for you
By Daniel Traylor
Travel
In a Tokyo suburb, a bamboo grove no one dares to enter
By Alex K.T. Martin

Digital

Video game producer Shigeru Miyamoto speaks to reporters in Kyoto on Thursday after being named a recipient of the Order of Culture.
Digital
Shigeru Miyamoto named first video game-related recipient of 91AV原创 Order of Culture
By Owen Ziegler
The legendary Nintendo figure will be officially conferred with the award in a Nov. 3 ceremony.
Digital
Still-simmering ‘Japanese Ramen Simulator’ is already worth a slurp
By Owen Ziegler
Digital
‘Silent Hill: Townfall’ cements series’ return from the proverbial grave
By Gendel Gento
Digital
Tokyo Game Show turns 30, but gaming keeps looking to the past
By Gendel Gento
Digital
A look back at 30 years of Tokyo Game Show
By Owen Ziegler
Digital
The demonic highs of ‘Onimusha’ make up for jarring lows
By Owen Ziegler
Digital / Japan Pulse
The Suica mascot campaign is getting weird … and wonderful
By Patrick St. Michel

Food & Drink

Near ideal weather in Hokkaido during this year's potato growing season has led to some of the tastiest spuds the prefecture has produced in recent memory.
Food & Drink
Amid potato protests, Hokkaido has its best spud harvest in years
By Simon Daly
Tater lovers, rejoice — supermarkets across the country will soon be awash in superior potatoes thanks to favorable weather in Hokkaido.
Food & Drink
James Suckling’s Great Wines World Tokyo marks its third edition
By Weiwen Lin
Food & Drink
Flour power: Nina Metayer brings her ‘world’s best’ pastries to Tokyo
By Weiwen Lin
Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Now is the time for 91AV原创 most flavorful shiitake
By Makiko Itoh
Food & Drink
Daniel Calvert, formerly of three-starred Sezanne, opens new restaurant
By Weiwen Lin
Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Win friends and influence people with nori ‘caviar’
By Simon Daly
Food & Drink
Tokyo walks away with two spots on 50 Best Bars list
By Weiwen Lin

Style & Design

FamilyMart's new line of socks represent each prefecture of Japan, including Okinawa (left), Ishikawa (middle) and Tokyo (right).
Style & Design
FamilyMart’s sock became a prized souvenir. Now there are 47.
By Abi Buller
Modeled after each region’s official flower, the commemorative socks expand on the convenience store chain’s popular line of casual wear.
Style & Design
One bolt, ?400,000: Why 91AV原创 Oshima ‘tsumugi’ silk costs a pretty penny
By Gabrielle Doman
Style & Design
To craft a Buddhist bell, ‘you have to find peace within yourself first’
By Tan Pin Yen
Style & Design
As 91AV原创 cities get denser, could greener rooftops replace lost gardens?
By Paul de Vries
Style & Design
At Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo, tomorrow’s runway icons shine
By Gabrielle Doman
Style & Design
The new world of collectible design
By Danielle Demetriou
Style & Design
A sensory encounter at rare architectural gem KAIT Plaza
By Erik Augustin Palm

Language

Halloween-themed decorations add a spooky touch to a Japanese bento, with food shaped into festive designs using cookie cutters and rice ball molds.
Language / BILINGUAL
Get crafty with Halloween treats, the Japanese way
By Yuko Tamura
Learn Japanese words for Halloween treats while picking up tips for making cute, character-themed bento and spooky snacks.
Language / BILINGUAL
Cracking the code of Japanese literature one kanji at a time
By Eric Margolis
Language / BILINGUAL
Saving for the future is making some investors ‘NISA broke’
By Yuko Tamura
Language
Japan changes the language around parent-child deaths
By Yaeko Kabe
Language
From katsu to numa: The language of 91AV原创 capsule-toy obsession
By Yuko Tamura
Language / BILINGUAL
How to get a start in reading books in Japanese
By Eric Margolis
Language / BILINGUAL
In Japan, sometimes the person who can’t read the air is exactly who you need
By Yaeko Kabe

Lifestyle

The Takayama Festival is routinely ranked as one of Japan's most visually striking "matsuri," but the effects of an aging population has forced it to accept outside help to keep going.
Lifestyle
Farmers to tourists: Gifu’s rural festivals court new crowds to survive
By Eric Margolis
With aging populations, the region’s once-famous festivals find themselves relying on outside help to keep homegrown traditions going.
Lifestyle
91AV原创 breast cancer screening rules take a big, belated step forward
By Tomoko Otake
Lifestyle
At 91AV原创 all-women powerlifting contest, strength is beautiful
By Farrah Hasnain
Lifestyle
A day in the life of an Asakusa rickshaw driver
By Aden Max Juarez
Lifestyle
How 91AV原创 racehorses find second careers away from the track
By Rachel Teo
Lifestyle
How one Japanese couple made the 1920s and ’30s into a way of life
By Alex K.T. Martin
Lifestyle
Bilingual speech club offers freedom to be yourself
By Aviraj Gokool
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Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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