How's this for a scenario: You are a 39 year old salaryman, the night before your wedding. You and your bride have booked a prestigious ...

Summer is finally over. Temperatures drop, the air dries a bit and we finally get the high, clear autumn days that mark the best time of the...

Not about Japan or Osaka in any way, I know, but this is just too cool not to share. Apparently, some rather unsavory religious organization...

Remember I wrote about that small photo competition where I ended up being one of the winners? My prize came in the mail last week: a bagfu...

Freezers are generally at their best with the door tightly closed; most experts seem to be in agreement on this. However, there's two un...

Two weeks ago, just ahead of autumn, we took a trip to Aomori. Aomori prefecture is the northernmost prefecture on the main island of Honshu...

There's an article in Japan Times making the argument that aversion to strangers - foreigners or Japanese - is killing rural Japan . Bri...