Food & Drink | Food Sustainability in Japan Dec 5, 2020

Japan’s first community fridge opens in Okayama

The Kitanagase Community Fridge provides free food, produce and household goods to low-income families.

Food & Drink Aug 22, 2020

This ‘dashi sensei’ helps parents get comfortable making broth from scratch

Mika Kumahara teaches parents how to make simple, all-natural dashi broth they can feed their children.

Stage Jan 8, 2020

Yuriko Kotani: The Japanese comedian laughing her way through dark days in the U.K.

Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani journeys back from her adopted U.K. for a series of live shows, in which she discusses the quirks of the British and their language.

Music Dec 11, 2019

Music historian Kato David Hopkins and a life spent discovering the obscure in Kansai

Music historian Kato David Hopkins is using his Happy Hour event in Kyoto to educate people about some of the lesser-known bands of the Kansai underground scene of years gone by