Category: LIFESTYLE

A football match on Saturday between the Urawa Reds, a major soccer team in the J-League Division 1 based in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, and Sagan Tosu, was marred by a banner hung at the venue ...

Pink Tokyo starts today, Japan's first major adult expo. Despite a name which might be mistaken for a gay parade event at first glance (pinku in Japanese always implies porn, as in pinku eiga), this ...

It's no secret that we hate the policy that many Japanese hotels, hot springs, pools and beaches have regarding tattoos (irezumi or shisei). The out-dated custom bans inked visitors from either ...

Girls with guns? Sounds like a cheap porno but this is actually a minor fashion craze right now, thanks to SG-Fashion-Snap.com, which is collating images of male and female participants in Airsoft ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has demanded the removal of an artwork that criticizes the visits to Yasukuni Shrine by members of the Japanese government. The exhibition is now running, set to ...

Japan is a country that seems to inspire more than its far share of stereotypes and myths. The overseas media is also complicit in perpetuating many of the images of Japan that make it seem weird, ...

It's Valentine's Day in Japan (and it's snowing again too). While in Japan famously it's actually the custom for the girls to give a gift on February 14th, with the men giving something on March ...

Japanese drivers will be celebrating the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on their cars with special license plates. All the boxes have been ticked here. Mt Fuji? Yes. Cherry blossom? Yes. Perhaps the only ...

Do you ever get the desire to shoot one of the ubiquitous AKB48 girls? Yes, we know we are not alone in our antipathy towards the hyper-manufactured bubblegum Akiba idol "music" group. Well, ...

Tokyo has been hit by record levels of snow this weekend, putting a significant chill on the last day of campaigning for the potential Tokyo governors. Polling day is today (Sunday) but the mounds ...

Japanese people love to dress up. There's hardly a public event these days that doesn't seem to feature a colorful mascot in a large costume or some crazily dressed comedian. So should this ...

You may have heard about Japan's "gaijin houses," or communal residences for foreigners. It used to be that the only people who lived in such houses were foreigners and people who wanted to live with ...

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 ...

This article by Andres Zuleta first appeared on Tokyo Cheapo. [caption id="attachment_3642" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A rare sight in Tokyo[/caption] Free Wi-Fi in Tokyo is notoriously hard ...

For as long as I can remember, comic books have been tightly wrapped in plastic covers, refusing to reveal their content to any passersby in a bookstore. It hasn't been too long since convenience ...