For Yuzuha Oka's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Less than a year old, earlier this month Clubhouse became the most popular app on the Japan App Store. On this week's episode we look at why Clubhouse, an invite-only social media platform has become all the rage in Japan. Here to discuss is Yuzuha ...
Which Japanese convenience store is best and why? That's the question Newspick's Yuzuha Oka and The Japan Times' Chris Russell, Joel Tansey and Oscar Boyd attempt to answer.
At Uniqlo stores worldwide, staff greet every customer with "Welcome to Uniqlo!" They briskly walk around on a clean, white sales floor, refolding and restacking clothes, rarely talking to customers or each other unless approached. It's a Japanese style of customer service based on a strict ...
Japan's mega-robot creator is up for a battle of the bots after being challenged by a rival maker of the behemoths in the United States. Suidobashi Heavy Industry founder Kogoro Kurata accepted a challenge Monday to partake in a robot brawl proposed by U.S. robotics ...
The municipal government in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, is retroactively withdrawing support for a public event after an all-girl pop group performed a song that criticized the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Japanese scientists have developed a device that they say detects most kinds of cancer from a drop of blood in only three minutes. The device uses a biochip, a sensor comprising multiple tiny test sites. It functions by attracting a faintly luminous substance found in ...
A decision by the Tokyo District Court to reject a compensation case against a night club hostess who had a long-running sexual relationship with one of her clients effectively endorses adultery, experts say. The ruling said the man's wife was ineligible for compensation from the ...
A 23-year-old student from China who attends the prestigious University of Tokyo is now looking for a job in Japan. But her quest to achieve the "Japanese dream" of working at a major Japanese company, and earning roughly four times what she could make back ...
Have you ever dreamed of chasing the Golden Snitch on a broomstick, as Harry Potter does in the game of Quidditch? How about releasing a devastating "Kame Hame Ha" energy wave like the character Goku in the Dragon Ball manga and anime? Our world and the ...
