Fall is finally here! Time to make the most out of this fleeting season by spending the most time outdoors that we can. Don’t ...

Fresh from the newly opened Harry Potter Shop in Harajuku, I headed next to Akasaka, which has become Tokyo’s Harry Potter ...

It's a rite of passage for newcomers and pretty much everyone's daily nightmare. Commuting on Tokyo's overcrowded trains and subways, that is. Statistics recounting which lines are most over capacity ...

Tokyo can be a bit hard to love. To those used to classical cities built out of stone and brick, its boxy grey buildings can feel oppressively ugly. The crude strip lighting, the lack of insulation in ...

The Japan Foundation will host the 4th Asian Philanthropy Conference on Thursday, 4 December, 2025, in a face-to-face format ...

A Geiger counter in Tokyo has been set up to publish the readings online. Over the past hour, the counts per minute have been rising from the baseline of 20 to nearly 60 cpm. These readings do not ...

The Tokyo Sky Tree (R), Genmori-bashi and a Tobu 6050 series train in October 2011. The Tokyo Sky Tree opened in May 2012. (ykanazawa1999/Flickr) Asia Society fosters long-term sustainability ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This guest article prepared by Koike Yuriko in February 2023 is part of the Asia ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. What a difference a week makes. Last week, it seemed that the prime minister of ...

While it may be the offseason for the Warriors, basketball will soon be in full swing once again as the world prepares for the summer Olympics in Tokyo. And some exciting news for Dub Nation: several ...

Blogs and blogging have become buzzwords in the last 18 months, with millions of people setting up their own web logs to record their lives, comment on world events or share news. There are almost as ...