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The Onodera Food Service group, which manages Sushi Ginza Onodera and "kaiseki" specialist Nadaman, has merged a sushi "omakase" (chef's choice) into a kaiseki to create a new dining experience.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 7, 2025
At Nadaman, a traditional Japanese multicourse meal gets a new format
The Onodera group has taken a bold step in merging two of its dining concepts — sushi and “kaiseki” haute cuisine.
"Palaver" takes place almost entirely in Tokyo, particularly in Shinjuku Ward and areas including Shinjuku Ni-chome and Shin-Okubo.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 7, 2025
‘Palaver’: A queer story set in Tokyo searches for a home for the heart
A finalist for this year’s National Book Award for Fiction in the U.S., Bryan Washington’s “Palaver” is a gentle exploration of leaving and arriving.
The award winners from this year's Tokyo International Film Festival pose for a photo at the closing ceremony on Wednesday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Nov 7, 2025
‘Palestine 36’ wins top honor as TIFF wraps a 10-day celebration of cinema
The Tokyo International Film Festival closed its 38th edition with a screening of Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet.”
Tokyo police have arrested seven people suspected of being involved in at least 500 fraud cases in Tokyo and three prefectures between February 2023 and this month.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2025
Tokyo police arrest fraud group head and six others
The seven men are believed to be linked to at least 500 fraud cases in Tokyo and three prefectures since February 2023.
Police have arrested Masayuki Hosono, the operator of a private-room massage parlor in Bunkyo Ward, after he allegedly forced a 12-year-old Thai girl to perform sexual services for customers.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2025
Massage parlor operator arrested for forcing 12-year-old Thai girl into sex work
Police are investigating the case as human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation of a child.
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2025
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Paul Schrader’s 1985 biopic of the radical author Yukio Mishima finds its Japanese audience at last.
Tokyo police plan to introduce a system that uses generative artificial intelligence to automatically transcribe consultation audio and generate summaries so they can more swiftly respond to stalking cases that may escalate into serious crimes.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2025
Tokyo police to use AI to strengthen anti-stalking measures
The police will introduce a system that uses generative AI to automatically transcribe consultation audio and generate summaries to help improve operational efficiency.
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2025
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
Five films screened at this year’s TIFF put migration and its human impact front and center.
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
BUSINESS / Companies / Longform
Nov 3, 2025
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once symbols of urban solitude, these spaces are finding new purpose as coworking hubs for a changing, wired generation.
The capital city's Harajuku district in December 2024. Tokyo’s “coolest” neighborhood is subjective and constantly shifting, as the city’s appeal lies in its diversity of areas, each offering a unique mix of trends, culture and hidden gems.
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2025
Tokyo’s coolest neighborhood? There isn’t one.
Tokyo can’t be reduced to a single trendy suburb: What’s appealing is precisely the incongruity of its locales.
The current exhibition at 21_21 Design Site is A-POC Able’s first venture outside fashion, though it follows in the footsteps of its founder Issey Miyake, who launched a lighting collection in 2011 with Italian company Artemide.
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 2, 2025
New generations of designers carry Issey Miyake's legacy
From pleated garments to glowing lamps, the designer’s philosophy continues to evolve through new brands, collaborations and generations.
Great Wines World features more than 260 top-rated wines curated by influential American wine critic James Suckling.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 31, 2025
Renowned wine critic James Suckling brings Great Wines World back to Tokyo
The event showcases more than 260 top-rated bottles from 150 producers, with a focus on Bordeaux.
Located in the redeveloped Takanawa Gateway neighborhood, the JW Marriott Tokyo is the first of the luxury brand’s outposts in the Japanese capital.  
LIFE / Travel
Oct 31, 2025
Tokyo’s first JW Marriott brings a whole floor of mindfulness
The redeveloped Takanawa Gateway neighborhood gets the newest outpost of the hotel chain’s luxury brand.
Consumer prices excluding fresh food gained 2.8% in October from a year earlier in the Tokyo area, with subsidies for water having run their course.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 31, 2025
Faster Tokyo inflation supports BOJ rate hike case and boosts yen
Consumer prices excluding fresh food gained 2.8% in October from a year earlier in the capital.
Sotatsu Yanase, a 46-year-old tatami shop owner, was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison by the Tokyo District Court on Thursday for burning his girlfriend's body and dumping it in the sea off Izu Oshima.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 30, 2025
Tokyo court sentences man to 30 months in prison for burning girlfriend’s body
According to the indictment, Sotatsu Yanase abandoned his girlfriend's remains in 2024 near Izu Oshima's southwest coast, with police still investigating how she died.
JR Central President Shunsuke Niwa explains the increase in total construction costs for its planned superfast magnetically levitated shinkansen train line, in the city of Nagoya on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2025
Maglev shinkansen costs seen ballooning further to ¥11 trillion
It is the second time that the project cost estimate has been revised up for the line.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government issued a €300 million (¥53 billion) bond on Tuesday to fund flood defenses and other climate-related measures.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2025
Tokyo Metropolitan Government issues climate resilience bond
The money will be used to upgrade coastal protection facilities for the Port of Tokyo, develop sediment prevention facilities and enhance river flood resilience.
Director Junji Sakamoto (left) walked the Tokyo International Film Festival red carpet with Sayuri Yoshinaga (center) and Non (right), who both play mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, in the biopic "Climbing for Life."
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 28, 2025
Tokyo Film Festival opens with global stars and a spotlight on Asian storytelling
From Juliette Binoche’s directorial debut to Paul Schrader’s Mishima biopic, this year’s festival celebrates cross-cultural creativity.
Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
JAPAN / History / Longform
Oct 27, 2025
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.
Police officers in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Monday. As many as 18,000 police officers are being mobilized to secure central Tokyo for U.S. President Donald Trump’s three-day visit to Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2025
Tokyo police deploy 18,000 officers for Trump’s visit
The Metropolitan Police Department is prioritizing countermeasures against lone offenders and drawing on recent cases in Japan, including those against former prime ministers.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
Takaichi calls for the updating of Japan's economic security law
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to a panel on promoting economic security in Japan on Friday.
These are the hottest lower-division rikishi to watch right now
Fukazaki (right) grapples with Enho at the IG Arena in Nagoya on July 13.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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