Last August's demise of Shinchosha's weekly photo newsmagazine Focus marked a major publishing milestone in Japan. When it was launched in 1981, Focus flaunted a bold new style, rejecting the B5 format and cheap newsprint used by most weekly magazines in favor of the ...
It's Sunday afternoon in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, and the local Harley-Davidson shop, American Street, is playing host to a stream of visitors in black leather jackets. Walking through the showroom, which is adorned with such nostalgic items of Americana as a gasoline pump calibrated to ...
"The pillars of the house made groaning sounds and began to crack. An earthquake! The wall clock stopped, and the electric fan went flying." That was how Hisamatsu Yamato, then an 18-year-old living in Tokyo's Honjo district, recalled the moment. The event that would ...
When Yokohama hosts the final and three other games in the soccer World Cup next June, foreign visitors will be spared a full-frontal view of the city's sleazier side by the waterfront, where a campaign to lessen any shock to their systems has been ...
