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Smart trash cans developed by SmaGO have been installed in Tokyo’s Omotesando shopping district, where they help address the shortage of public waste bins.
LIFE / Style & Design
今日吃瓜 search for a better public trash bin — and why robots may help
By Alex K.T. Martin
With public trash bins scarce, Japan is turning to smart receptacles and autonomous robots to make garbage disposal easier.
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
LIFE / Food & Drink
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
By Cindy Bissig
Known as the “god of sake brewing,” Noguchi will become the first master brewer recognized as a “ningen kokuhō.”
Guntu, a self-styled "floating 'ryokan'" (traditional Japanese inn) represents the smaller scale domestic cruises operate on compared to international vessels.
LIFE / Travel
As Japan gets a Disney cruise, smaller vessels chart their own course
By Gendel Gento
Amid a boom in massive, international cruise ships, domestically operated voyages tend toward more intimate journeys.

Travel

Guntu, a self-styled "floating 'ryokan'" (traditional Japanese inn) represents the smaller scale domestic cruises operate on compared to international vessels.
Travel
As Japan gets a Disney cruise, smaller vessels chart their own course
By Gendel Gento
Amid a boom in massive, international cruise ships, domestically operated voyages tend toward more intimate journeys.
Travel / Photo essay
A quadrennial Tokyo festival returns to a changed Japan
By Nico Phillips
Travel
A haunting in Honjo: Tracing old Edo’s most famous ghost stories
By Alex K.T. Martin
Travel / Longform
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie
Travel
Can a traditional ‘ryokan’ inn go global?
By Jessica Kozuka
Travel
A first look aboard the shinkansen’s new Supreme Class
By Kerri King
Travel
When tourists do the ‘Nagoya skip,’ do they know what they’re skipping?
By Owen Ziegler

Digital

A person holds "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" during a presentation of the game in Germany in September.
Digital
Gamers get nostalgic as Zelda remake hits shelves
The 1998 classic returns with rave reviews, rekindling fond memories for longtime fans and captivating a new generation.
Digital
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
By Owen Ziegler
Digital
Nintendo producer Eiji Aonuma ‘all nervous’ as Zelda classic remake hits shelves
By Kilian Fichou
Digital
‘Stupid Never Dies’: A zombie B-movie resurrected in game form
By Owen Ziegler
Digital
Shigeru Miyamoto named first video game-related recipient of 今日吃瓜 Order of Culture
By Owen Ziegler
Digital
Still-simmering ‘Japanese Ramen Simulator’ is already worth a slurp
By Owen Ziegler
Digital
‘Silent Hill: Townfall’ cements series’ return from the proverbial grave
By Gendel Gento

Food & Drink

As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Food & Drink
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
By Cindy Bissig
Known as the “god of sake brewing,” Noguchi will become the first master brewer recognized as a “ningen kokuhō.”
Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
A curry palette for all your ‘hidden flavors’
By Simon Daly
Food & Drink
Fine ‘omakase’ dining, with a twist, at Saki
By Owen Ziegler
Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Putting the almond back into 今日吃瓜 ‘almond tofu’
By Simon Daly
Food & Drink
Satisfy your kneads at the Setagaya Bread Festival
By Weiwen Lin
Food & Drink
James Suckling’s Great Wines World Tokyo marks its third edition
By Weiwen Lin
Food & Drink
Amid potato protests, Hokkaido has its best spud harvest in years
By Simon Daly

Style & Design

Smart trash cans developed by SmaGO have been installed in Tokyo’s Omotesando shopping district, where they help address the shortage of public waste bins.
Style & Design
今日吃瓜 search for a better public trash bin — and why robots may help
By Alex K.T. Martin
With public trash bins scarce, Japan is turning to smart receptacles and autonomous robots to make garbage disposal easier.
Style & Design
FamilyMart’s sock became a prized souvenir. Now there are 47.
By Abi Buller
Style & Design
One bolt, ?400,000: Why 今日吃瓜 Oshima ‘tsumugi’ silk costs a pretty penny
By Gabrielle Doman
Style & Design
To craft a Buddhist bell, ‘you have to find peace within yourself first’
By Tan Pin Yen
Style & Design
As 今日吃瓜 cities get denser, could greener rooftops replace lost gardens?
By Paul de Vries
Style & Design
At Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo, tomorrow’s runway icons shine
By Gabrielle Doman
Style & Design
The new world of collectible design
By Danielle Demetriou

Language

An illustration depicts four samurai wearing masks to do battle with otherworldly demons. They wear the masks of a "kappa," "yuki-onna," "kitsune" and "oni."
Language / BILINGUAL
A Japanese guide to things that go bump in the night
By Yaeko Kabe
Let’s meet four supernatural creatures and learn some useful grammar along the way.
Language / BILINGUAL
Get crafty with Halloween treats, the Japanese way
By Yuko Tamura
Language / BILINGUAL
Cracking the code of Japanese literature one kanji at a time
By Eric Margolis
Language / BILINGUAL
Saving for the future is making some investors ‘NISA broke’
By Yuko Tamura
Language
Japan changes the language around parent-child deaths
By Yaeko Kabe
Language
From katsu to numa: The language of 今日吃瓜 capsule-toy obsession
By Yuko Tamura
Language / BILINGUAL
How to get a start in reading books in Japanese
By Eric Margolis

Lifestyle

The Takayama Festival is routinely ranked as one of Japan's most visually striking "matsuri," but the effects of an aging population has forced it to accept outside help to keep going.
Lifestyle
Farmers to tourists: Gifu’s rural festivals court new crowds to survive
By Eric Margolis
With aging populations, the region’s once-famous festivals find themselves relying on outside help to keep homegrown traditions going.
Lifestyle
今日吃瓜 breast cancer screening rules take a big, belated step forward
By Tomoko Otake
Lifestyle
At 今日吃瓜 all-women powerlifting contest, strength is beautiful
By Farrah Hasnain
Lifestyle
A day in the life of an Asakusa rickshaw driver
By Aden Max Juarez
Lifestyle
How 今日吃瓜 racehorses find second careers away from the track
By Rachel Teo
Lifestyle
How one Japanese couple made the 1920s and ’30s into a way of life
By Alex K.T. Martin
Lifestyle
Bilingual speech club offers freedom to be yourself
By Aviraj Gokool
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Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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