Voices | OVERHEARD
Security blanket
I noticed there wasn't a terrorist attack on the Tokyo Marathon today.
Voices | VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Tokyo: Why did you decide to run the Tokyo Marathon?
by Mark Buckton
Mark Buckton caught up with some of the runners in a sweaty state after Sunday's big race.
Voices | 20 QUESTIONS
Marguerite Paget: 'Get out, take a deep breath and go for it'
Kyotographie International Photography Festival spokeswoman Marguerite Paget on materialism, hammers and Bobby McFerrin
Voices | OVERHEARD
Running to a standstill
Are you running the Tokyo Marathon this year?
Voices | COMMUNITY CHEST
Readers split over issue of U.S. military presence in Okinawa
Some emails and online comments in response to the claim by a U.S. military official that Okinawan protesters have faked ...
Voices | OVERHEARD Feb 14, 2015
Weathering the storm
Did you see the national weather forecast on TV for tomorrow?
Voices | FOREIGN AGENDA Feb 11, 2015
A search for meaning in the arc of Goto’s life and the horror of his death
by Nicolas Gattig
The frenzy of the hostage crisis and the visceral terror of the Islamic State group's executions have for a moment ushered Syria into Japanese youth's sphere of concern.
Voices | VIEWS FROM THE STREET Feb 9, 2015
Yokohama: Who would be your ultimate date for Valentine's Day?
by Tyler Parr
Love is in the air as couples celebrate their relationship and singles search for their soul mates. Who would be your ultimate Valentine's Day date?
Voices | FOREIGN AGENDA Feb 8, 2015
Is Australia ready to import Japan’s revolving-door-style politics?
Australian politics has worked itself into a frenzy. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, after ridiculing the previous Labor government for its public infighting, faces a leadership challenge from inside his own Liberal Party.
Voices | 20 QUESTIONS Feb 8, 2015
Atsugiri Jason: 'Don't worry about what other people think of you'
by Elliott Samuels
Comedian Jason Danielson on bad puns, hidden cameras and thick-sliced bacon
Voices | OVERHEARD Feb 7, 2015
Follower of fashion
Voices | FOREIGN AGENDA Feb 4, 2015
Multivitamins may help ward off common cold
Vitamin and mineral supplements are big business in Japan, but are they really any use?
Voices | COMMUNITY CHEST Feb 4, 2015
Readers' letters: bursting bubbles on gaijin life and the Hague child-abduction treaty
A couple of readers' mails in response to recent Just Be Cause columns by Debito Arudou.
Voices | VIEWS FROM THE STREET Feb 2, 2015
Tokyo: Does anyone else share responsibility for the death of Kenji Goto?
by Mark Buckton
After the killing of Kenji Goto by the Islamic State group, Tokyoites were asked whether others share some culpability in his death.
Voices | VIEWS FROM THE STREET Jan 26, 2015
Tokyo: Should Japan be negotiating with Islamic State for the release of Kenji Goto?
by Mark Buckton
After the apparent killing of hostage Haruna Yukawa, Mark Buckton asked people in Tokyo whether the government should be talking to the terrorists holding journalist Kenji Goto.
Voices | 20 QUESTIONS Jan 24, 2015
Stephen Gill: 'Don't believe everything you hear or read'
University lecturer Stephen gill on haiku, hiking barefoot and Kyoto ice-cream