No cheap all-you-can-drink all-nighters with friends rammed into a tiny booth, belting out Bon Jovi et al. They do things a bit differently in Ginza. Ginza 111 (apparently pronounced "Triple ...

A new Guinness World Record has been set for the number of theremins ever being played together. Masami Takeuchi organized the music concert of 272 theremin "Matryomin" instruments in Hamamatsu in ...

Japan's netizens are reacting with customary venom to the images of lackadaisical youngsters wearing their clothes like traditional sashes, which may or may not be the latest fashion trend about to ...

Visitors to Japan in the summer are often surprised by the way women will almost obsessively use parasols (typically black ones) to keep off the rays of the blazing sun. Come even just the smallest ...

J-World Tokyo, the world's first theme park dedicated to Shonen Jump manga, has opened in Ikebukuro, north Tokyo. Visitors can find the new amusement center in the Sunshine City World Import ...

You might have thought that communism was safe from mascots but then you'd be wrong. As shared by Matt Alt, the Japanese Communist Part has its own kawaii characters now, the so-called ...

Tokyo Reporter has posted about another incident in the ongoing "No dancing" saga that is affecting Japan's nightlife. GP Bar in Roppongi was raided and the manager and DJ arrested for the heinous ...

The World Cosplay Summit 2013, the international cosplay event being held this year for the eleventh time, will take over Nagoya from July 27th to August 4th. Cosplayers from all over the ...

After years of campaigning, Mt Fuji, Japan's highest peak and an ingenious piece of natural symmetry, was recently finally elevated to that status that perhaps of all people the Japanese seem to be ...

If you ever think that Japan is a country of great hospitality and politeness, you should know that behind their happy face might reveal deadly diligence and sacrifice. For a long time, the terms ...

We're going to go out on a limb here and appoint the Solano as the most stylish uchiwa (handheld fan) we have seen this year. It comes in four semi-transparent, translucent colors, and can be ...

On July 12th visitors to Yoyogi Park may have spotted some clothes that had been left in the hedges and foliage like garbage. But far from being discarded items of apparel by profligate Tokyoites, ...

Just when you thought the Han-ryu boom must surely be over, along comes an even more ambitious development. Though the fad for Korean girl groups seems now to have passed in Japan, the K-pop boys ...

Though this may sound just like another of those "Wacky Japan" stories, there's something more tender and profound at work here. With its chronically aging population and declining birth rate, ...

Japan is humid. Really, really humid. Every July and August the citizens of Japan spend their days battling sweat -- a particular nightmare for anyone who has to work in a suit or ride the rush hour ...