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Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, defended his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian newspaper and attacked U.S. officials for calling him a traitor. “The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover ...
Keeping track of your assets Money Forward is a personal financial asset management service (in Japanese) that works similar to the U.S.-based service Mint.com. With more than 160 partners including banks, credit-card companies and mobile carriers, the service automatically pulls all your financial information ...
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
Manu Ginobili ran onto the floor as fans stood and screamed. He went to the bench, and they chanted his name. The sights and sounds of so many San Antonio spring nights were back Sunday — and the real party might be just a ...
Who hasn’t been caught in the Christmas-gift shopping rush, and found themselves wishing they could have had private access to Santa’s workshop instead? Substitute the North Pole for an increasingly warm Tokyo, and you might have the closest thing to a modern-day version: this weekend, Tokyo Big Sight will host ...
The “Five Modern Noh Plays” by Yukio Mishima (1925-70) has already been the subject of many adaptations, but the latest ...
It’s hard to believe there was a time when fireflies outnumbered the neon lights of Tokyo. Luckily there are still ...
Interested in France? Head to Yokohama. The Institut Francais Yokohama, the Yokohama branch of the French government-sponsored culture and language centers, is turning Yokohama into all things French through July 15 for its annual Month of France in Yokohama. Started in 2005, the six-week-long ...
Businessmen and women will have an easier chance to peruse some of the best art galleries in Tokyo’s Ginza district this week, as 25 of the establishments extend their opening hours for an event dubbed “Garo no Yakai” (“Gallery Night Party”). Some of Ginza’s ...
Counted as one of the three biggest festivals in Edo, present-day Tokyo, the Sanno Festival kicks off its annual celebration Friday in the heart of the capital. The long-established festival at Hie Shrine in central Chiyoda Ward runs through June 17 featuring various traditional ...
Who says “monkey business” is bad for tourism? Not the Hojo Railway Company. Two baby macaques, who act as honorary station masters at Hojomachi Station in the city of Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, will guide passengers from that station to Ao Station in the city ...
The Tokyo Hotaru Festival is back for a second round. This participatory art installation involves 100,000 blue LED light bulbs that will be floated down Tokyo’s Sumida River. It’s sponsored by a consortium of parties including the Sumida and Taito ward offices, local tourism ...
The LGBT community in Tokyo is hard at work. Not even a month after the Rainbow Pride parade, the biennial Asian Queer Film Festival is set to grace the Cinemart Roppongi this weekend. Started in 2007, AQFF screens queer films from Asia, hoping to ...
The port city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, located on the country’s Noto Peninsula, will be filled with things to do for one week from the end of May as it kicks off its Citizens’ Festival. One of the biggest attractions at the event, which ...
The story goes that precisely 1,385 years ago, two brothers, Hinokuma Hamanari and Hinokuma Takenari, were fishing in Sumida River when they discovered in their nets an unlikely object: a statue of the Bodhisattva Kannon. Buddhism itself was still little known in Japan back ...
There’s something to be said about watching a concert outside. The music fills the air and the feeling of summer becomes liberating. This weekend, people in Fukuoka are going to get a headstart on feeling that vibe. Circle ’13 is set to return for ...
Here’s your chance to make a difference while staying fit and having fun. The Nagoya Walkathon — International Charity Festival will be held at Moricoro Park in the city of Nagakute, a suburb of Nagoya, this Sunday. Started in 1992 and sponsored by the ...
The city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, is known by many as “curry town.” The port city claims that the curry rice dish that is commonly consumed in Japan spread from its kitchens, as it had a close connection to the Imperial Japanese Navy, which ...
It’s that time of the year when things get rosy for flower lovers in Japan. The International Roses & Gardening Show, held annually at the Seibu Dome in Saitama Prefecture, will mark the 15th anniversary of its launch this year. To commemorate the occasion, ...