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Explore “Possibilities”: A dark play on our primal needs & impulses...

After spending the weekend  enjoying the transient beauty of the blooming cherry blossoms and G-rated entertainment –why not explore the darker side of human nature in a play by Tokyo’s Black Stripe...

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Scenes from a Tokyo Skid Row Clinic

by Dan Ryan, Abiko Free Press You’ve probably never heard of Sanya. The Tokyo City Government doesn’t acknowledge its existence, and you won’t find it on any official maps. Sanya is more or less...

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Cherry Blossom Sale In Tokyo! Last chance to 花見!

By Angela Kubo A cherry flower blossom scene in Omotesando. last week. This cherry blossom viewing season has been punctuated with rain, cold weather, and grey skies. But at last, the spring is here....

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Cutting Subsidies to Chongryun`s Schools Punishes Zainichi Koreans Not Pyongyang

  On February 25th, 2013 Shin Gil Ung, thePrincipal of a Tokyo Korean Junior-Senior High School and two students gave a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan. (Photo: FCCJ)...

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The Phantoms of Narita Airport: The Forgotten Warriors In Fading Green Fields

“It is much more than stress. Can you see the working conditions of these farmers? Can you see the iron fences surrounding their land? Is this human? Our combat is about the protection of our basic...

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The Incomplete Transsexual—a photo essay from Sanya

Tokyo, by Dan Ryan All photos by Dan Ryan It was a little like the scenario in that Kinks song “Lola”, but only in passing. I met her in a little place called Seoul Bar, which is in a rundown section...

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ABEGNOMICS: The Most Magical And Mysterious Economic Policy In The World!

Japan is populated by magical creatures. There are the leprechauns that stole millions from Olympus, Lehman Brothers Japan–then a billion dollars from AIJ and MRI and then vanished. There are also the...

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Viva la Révolucion? The Japanese Communist Party: Still Red And Not Dead

(Tokyo) – By Douglas Miller* Communism as an ideology would appear to be fading out of our world. Most of the Cold War revolutionaries have died off, and China, Vietnam, and even Burma are becoming...

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Omedeto! You’re a cookie, a camera, a cell phone cover!

  In Japan customized services are booming and many companies are now offering online tools that allow you to design your own one-of-a-kind personalized product. Customers can add stickers, words, and...

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All You Need Is LOVE…and the price of admission

 In celebration of its 10th year bringing fantastic art to the nocturnal dwellers of Tokyo, the Mori Art Museum is hosting All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama to Hatsune Miku, until Sunday,...

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