For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro…
Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Drag…
Take a journey through the history of Japanese role-pla…
How Japan Reduced Deaths From a Major Quake
After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.
How Japan Reduced Deaths From a Major Quake
After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.
Information and Communications in Japan 2024
Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori | East Bay Booksellers
Yokohama, California, originally published in 1949, is thefirst published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Setin the fictional community of Yokohama, California, Toshio Mori'swork is alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of JapaneseAmerica in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Samurai Unicorn
An action horror game with retro-graphics, set in the sprawling megacity of Sydney3.
Japan does not cut down centuries-old trees for development. Instead, experts spend months preparing their roots and relocating them
When roads, railways or new buildings are planned, centuries-old trees are often among the first casualties of development. In Japan, however, some of the country's most valuable trees are given a second chance.
Muni Helps Fuel Japantown’s Recovery
San Francisco’s Japantown is thriving post-pandemic. COVID-19 scrambled most cities’ economies and the way residents and visitors spend money. But sales tax data show some neighborhoods, including Japantown, have made quite a comeback.
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
Shindo: Japan’s earthquake intensity scale
On April 15, the day after the first earthquake struck Kyushu, all of the nation’s major newspapers carried the same headline: “Shindo 7 in Kumamoto.” No further explanation was needed.
Japanese media
Reputations, biases, past controversies. I know about Sankei Shimbun and I have some idea about the national newspapers, but I honestly don’t know anything at all about most local ones. Japan has poor press freedom in general (ranked 62nd out of 180 countries for 2026, and that’s after the ranking went up, not because of improvement in Japan but because other countries’ conditions have worsened)
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産経新聞「沖縄県が観光収入を過大発表 反米に利用か」報道は本当か？
裁判所も「不十分」だと認めた産経新聞記事の問題点
沖縄2紙を「日本人として恥」と批判した産経新聞の記事削除 問題がはらむ危険性とは
世論調査を当面休止 架空回答でフジテレビと産経新聞 調査先の電話番号なく不正気づかず