For Chris Meyers's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Standing out from Japan's many girl groups can be a daunting task, but one act, Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls), has found the answer by hiding behind masks. As many as 15,000 people flocked to a concert by the band late last year, showing how its ...
In March, the body of an elderly man was found on the floor of his apartment in downtown Tokyo. He had been dead for a month. Neighbors hadn't noticed the octogenarian's absence. His bank made the rent payments on time, his family didn't visit, and ...
An army of feral cats rules a remote island in southern Japan, curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village where they outnumber the humans 6 to 1. Originally introduced to Aoshima to deal with mice that plagued fishermen's boats, the ...
