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Just catching up on the 地味なハロウィン ("sober Halloween") event, where flashy fancy dress is banned, in favour of everyday cosplay. This girl has come as the kind of model you

I don't think Prime Minister Abe gets enough credit for being a fearless public eater. He'll take on any challenge. Perhaps PM Abe shows himself eating so much to reassure

Pete Hamill, a New York journalist with a long an influential career, has died at 85. His death is being widely reported in Japan because one of his columns inspired

Major retrenchment by Cecil McBee, which used to rack up sales of nearly $1million a month in Shibuya 109. The fashion brand took its name from jazz musician Cecil McBee.

Campfire meal ticket scheme for Ginza restaurants is off to a slow start. Nearly a million yen raised so far would be decent for a lot of projects but the

When I think about Japanese TV shows which became unlikely hits overseas, "Monkey" (西遊記) is the first which come to mind. Over 10 years earlier, however, Australia also fell in

If you have never seen this 1981 documentary on KFC in Japan, then it's well worth half an hour of your time, either as an insight into foreign firms trying

I have just discovered the Japan Anko Association has a podcast. It's also bilingual. However, it's bilingual in a curious way: the kaicho speaks in Japanese, while Chakako replies in