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Recently, Unseen Japan’s Editor-in-Chief, Noah Oskow, and I participated in Kalani Scarrott’s Compounding Curiosity podcast. We talked a lot about

[SEPTEMBER 2022 UPDATE] We have rewritten most of this blog to reflect the current situation. Many cafes have closed or

On October 16th, Shignobu Fusako, the newly-released former leader of the now-defunct Japanese Red Army, stood on an outdoor stage

What do you do when you ruin one of the objects you were meant to preserve? That’s the situation facing

With Japan at long last reopening for tourists following the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are planning a trip over the

National Coming Out Day is on October 11th. It’s a day for members of the LGBTQ+ community to take initiative

In the center of Aichi Prefecture is the old city, Okazaki. Known as the birthplace of Hatcho Miso, Okazaki is

America routinely exports its worst ideas. That’s certainly the case with multi-level marketing monstrosity Amway, which has been plying its

“Okinawans don’t speak in a grammatical manner.” “There’s a lot of them who don’t speak proper Japanese.” These are just