When vocalist Herb Kendrick, better known simply by his nickname “Q,” takes the stage next week in Tokyo, he will be appearing onstage for the first time in nearly a year. The gig at What the Dickens in Ebisu is being billed as the ...

For over five years now, The Japan Times has run a weekly photo box featuring a cat or dog in need of a home, as well as success stories of animals that have been adopted. Many of the pets have been rescued from horrific ...

Twisted wreckage thrown against the pastoral countryside, surreal scenes of the elements of everyday horribly juxtaposed, a world exploded yet eerily calm in its chaos. The photos are at once deeply disturbing and uncomfortably captivating. Rich colors, uncanny detail and stunning skies brought out ...

Jamie El-Banna, 27, is a self-professed “cynical Londoner” who says he’s “not a nice guy” and admits he is known to many as something of a party animal interested mostly in getting drunk. But a look at his recent track record reveals he’s now ...

When the March 11 earthquake hit Japan, Niigata resident Isabella Gallaon-Aoki “missed it completely.” Ironic, in that she would soon find herself in the very bowels of the disaster area, and travel there some 20 times over the next two months. A resident of ...

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision . . . . They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” Those ...

“You can’t keep a good man down” is the darkly applicable phrase that springs to mind when listening to Yasuhiro “Mark” Yamazaki. The energy, conviction, sense of mission and utter absence of self-pity in this soft-spoken man is humbling. In 1979, the Tokyo-born Yamazaki, ...

To some in Japan, the word “expat” is often associated with negative images — isolation, language and culture barriers, and a general lack of interaction, connection, acceptance and/or understanding. For California native Francesca Conate, however, the life of the expatriate means opportunity — the ...