Author: William

The end of the school year is approaching. Every spring a generation departs and another takes their place. A lot of memories are cemented for both students and teachers at this time of year. One ...

After debuting last year, the Tokyo International Literary Festival is back. For such a literary city, it is shocking that Tokyo never had its own proper literature festival until last year. ...

Heading to a Japanese onsen (hot spring) is one of the best trips you can do in Japan during the winter. But the exclusive onsen resorts don't come cheap and they need to keep innovating to ...

Only a few weeks into her post as US Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy has already waded into one of the most tricky of diplomatic areas. As such rows often do these days, it erupted over a ...

Retro is still going strong, it seems. If you're a fan of Ultraman baddies, then head on down to Kawasaki in March to visit the Kaijyu Sakaba. Not surprisingly, it is themed around the kaiju (or ...

Miss International, Ikumi Yoshimatsu, who famously came forward recently about the remarkable stalking she suffered at the hands of Japan's entertainment world movers and shakers, has now gone one ...

Movie adaptations of video games rarely work. For every Silent Hill and Resident Evil there's a Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros. or Prince of Persia. But things go better when Hollywood isn't ...

Today Morihiro Hosokawa finally confirmed expectations that he is running in the Tokyo gubernatorial elections in February. And in an interview with TV Tokyo he has promised if he wins to hold the ...

I ❤️ cock. Not the kind of thing you would normally expect to see on the costume of a kids' TV show host, right? But this is Japan and weird stuff happens sometimes, especially on ...

With the resignation of Naoki Inose last month over a financial scandal, the position of Tokyo Governor is about to become vacant. While some pondered whether right-winger octogenarian Shintaro ...

Happy New Year, readers. 2014 is the Year of the Horse and while we are still in the grips of the cold winter, things aren't nearly as chilly as they are in parts of America right now. We ...

Christmas is a strange time. It's all the kitsch and the shopping minus the religion (or at least, the pretense of the religious). In fact, Christmas Eve is the bigger event. It's a day when ...

AKB at the ASEAN summit... Did we think we'd see the day? It's come, also confirming that they (or their successors) will almost certainly be main stage at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games opening ...

It's long been no secret that otaku and other "undesirables" are targeted by overseas governments keen to suppress what they consider a subculture that veers into the realm of "child ...

This is an awesome innovation on what many people would say is a dying medium. And the best thing about it is that it doesn't resort to digital or technological gimmicks. It just takes two very ...