Japanese culture Sumo’s Hidden World — Beyond the Ring, Behind the Topknot
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledMost people who know anything about sumo know approximately the same things. Two enormous men i...
Japanese culture 
Manga & Anime The Manga Editor — The Hidden Architect of Japan’s Most Powerful Stories
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledAkira Toriyama did not invent Goku alone. This fact is not a criticism of Toriyama, who was gen...
Japanese culture How Japan Handles Death — Funerals, Bones, and the Beautiful Rituals of Goodbye
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledMy neighbor died on a Wednesday morning in early spring. He was eighty-one years old, had lived...
Japanese culture Izakaya — The Real Third Place of Japanese Society
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a moment that happens in Japanese izakaya that I have witnessed hundreds of times over...
Japanese economy The 8 Million Empty Houses — Japan’s Akiya Crisis and What It Really Means
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledDrive far enough from any major Japanese city — half an hour past the last suburban train stati...