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Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt ¡°human connection¡± over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
By Phoebe Amoroso
An app called Timeleft hopes to combat big-city alienation through a simple meal with a diverse group of people.
Kumiko Shichijo provides tips on Japanese etiquette and manners on Instagram and says videos on gift-giving and hand towels have done particularly well.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Kumiko Shichijo: ¡®Living abroad helped me appreciate Japanese etiquette¡¯
By Ansel Swindells
Worried about committing a social faux pas while in Japan? This manners expert hopes to help you be your most polite while out and about.
After almost a decade of traveling around the world, a working holiday during the 2019 ski season in Nozawa Onsen was to be Rowie Geraerts¡¯ last hurrah before she settled down in Australia.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
How a solo yoga teacher built a wellness community in the Japanese Alps
By Samantha Mythen
A budding entrepreneur from Australia, Rowie Geraerts has created Shizen Collective in Nozawa Onsen ¡ª a new home for herself, locals and visitors.

Voices

Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida accepts a gift of 'dekopon' citruses, a specialty product and symbol of Kumamoto Prefecture, from Kumamon, itself a mascot and instantly recognizeable symbol of the region.
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ ¡®meibutsu¡¯-industrial complex is a wonder to behold
By Jordan Allen
If you name a Japanese prefecture, many locals will instantly be able to tell you something that the region is famous for or a product synonymous with that area.
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Saying good riddance to what bugs me about a Japanese summer
By Jordan Allen
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
By Thu-Huong Ha
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
By Jordan Allen
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
¡®You¡¯re a spy, then?¡¯ The odd interactions of a non-Japanese father in Japan
By Jordan Allen
Voices / Black Eye
U.S. civil rights icon Opal Lee brings her Juneteenth walk to Tokyo
By Baye McNeil
Voices / Black Eye
How a cache of African art found a home in western Tokyo
By Baye McNeil

Issues

Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt ¡°human connection¡± over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.
Issues / The Foreign Element
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
By Phoebe Amoroso
An app called Timeleft hopes to combat big-city alienation through a simple meal with a diverse group of people.
Issues / The Foreign Element
Can you drink in Shibuya and Shinjuku this Halloween? It depends.
By Ansel Swindells
Issues
The forgotten Japanese naturalist who created a U.S. national park
By Drew Damron
Issues / The Foreign Element
From the division of war, 75 years of intercultural aid
By Waka Konohana
Issues / Longform
In search of the ¡®Japanese dream¡¯
By Thu-Huong Ha
Issues / The Foreign Element
Influencers helped cause overtourism. Can they help fix it?
By Jane Pipkin
Issues / The Foreign Element
The new vanguard of rural revitalization efforts in Japan
By Justin Randall

How-tos

While Japan may not have a large market for English-language publications, there's still hope to grow your career overseas while living here.
How-tos
How to make it as an English-language author in Japan
By Kat Joplin
Some writers find career stability in teaching, while others find that the culture and vibrance of this country inspires their imaginations.
How-tos
A wrinkles-and-all guide to cosmetic surgery in Japan
By Kat Joplin
How-tos / Age Wise
Retiring in Japan? Be prepared to foot your own bills.
By Tim Hornyak
How-tos
Freelancers aren¡¯t happy with ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ new invoice system
By Eric Margolis
How-tos
How to avoid medical purgatory when hospitalized in Japan
By Kat Joplin
How-tos
Navigating the notorious gauntlet of divorce in Japan
By Eric Margolis
How-tos
The My Number card has some real benefits. Is it time you got yours?
By Eric Margolis

Our Lives

Kumiko Shichijo provides tips on Japanese etiquette and manners on Instagram and says videos on gift-giving and hand towels have done particularly well.
Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Kumiko Shichijo: ¡®Living abroad helped me appreciate Japanese etiquette¡¯
By Ansel Swindells
Worried about committing a social faux pas while in Japan? This manners expert hopes to help you be your most polite while out and about.
Our Lives / The Big Questions
President of L¡¯Oreal Japan leverages innovation
By Louise George Kittaka
Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Omar Nok: 'There are good people everywhere'
By Ansel Swindells
Our Lives
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
By Mike Fu
Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Scaredy-cat looking for his safe place
Our Lives
A bridge between kyogen and the world, Don Kenny dies at 88
By Rintaro Dainichi
Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Gary Perlman: ¡®Kabuki is pure entertainment ¡­ the characters and themes are universal¡¯
By Ansel Swindells
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Miho Nakayama, known for 'Love Letter' and a decadeslong music career, dies at 54
Miho Nakayama
A $105 trillion inheritance windfall is on the way for U.S. heirs
About $105 trillion is projected to be passed down from older generations over the next quarter century, according to research firm Cerulli Associates, an amount roughly equal to global gross domestic product in 2023.
Japan's soft power soared to new heights in 2024
Japanese creatives, athletes and activists saw their efforts recognized on the world stage in various ways this year. At the Oscars (left) Takashi Yamazaki and his team took a prize for ¡°Godzilla Minus One,¡± while later in the year Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada (center) took Emmys for their work in ¡°Shogun.¡± Shohei Ohtani (right) was arguably the biggest Japanese star of the year.
Japan's honorific language can be challenging for native speakers, too
People walk around an outlet mall in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture. At stores across Japan, clerks use a form of polite language called "manyuaru keigo," literally, ¡°manual honorifics,¡± named for the service manuals they study it from.
Police may be able to use fake IDs to investigate yami baito
A Metropolitan Police Department flyer on high-paying illegal work advertised on social media, known as yami baito
What constitutes fatal dangerous driving in Japan?
Critics have said that drivers who were speeding well over the speed limit or those who were extremely drunk were not indicted for dangerous driving because of its vague definition.
Japan's soft power soared to new heights in 2024
Japanese creatives, athletes and activists saw their efforts recognized on the world stage in various ways this year. At the Oscars (left) Takashi Yamazaki and his team took a prize for ¡°Godzilla Minus One,¡± while later in the year Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada (center) took Emmys for their work in ¡°Shogun.¡± Shohei Ohtani (right) was arguably the biggest Japanese star of the year.
Lightning strikes twice for Shun Ikeda at All Japan Championships
Shun Ikeda holds the trophy after winning his second consecutive amateur yokozuna title on Sunday at Tokyo¡¯s Ryogoku Kokugikan.
Yoon¡¯s gambit a tempest in a teapot for financial markets
A screen displays market data at Hana Bank in Seoul on Wednesday.
U.S. Space Force launches first unit in Japan
Activated on Wednesday, U.S. Space Forces Japan ¡ª a component similar to the one established at South Korea¡¯s Osan Air Base in 2022 ¡ª will operate out of Yokota Air Base in the city of Fussa, western Tokyo, with a staff of about 10.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

People in cities across Japan will pop into their local convenience store for any number of products they believe will help them with a night of drinking.
Hangover cures are everywhere in Japan ¡ª but do they work?
By Thu-Huong Ha

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