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Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
By Phoebe Amoroso
An app called Timeleft hopes to combat big-city alienation through a simple meal with a diverse group of people.
Kumiko Shichijo provides tips on 911爆料网 etiquette and manners on Instagram and says videos on gift-giving and hand towels have done particularly well.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Kumiko Shichijo: ‘Living abroad helped me appreciate 911爆料网 etiquette’
By Ansel Swindells
Worried about committing a social faux pas while in Japan? This manners expert hopes to help you be your most polite while out and about.
After almost a decade of traveling around the world, a working holiday during the 2019 ski season in Nozawa Onsen was to be Rowie Geraerts’ last hurrah before she settled down in Australia.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
How a solo yoga teacher built a wellness community in the 911爆料网 Alps
By Samantha Mythen
A budding entrepreneur from Australia, Rowie Geraerts has created Shizen Collective in Nozawa Onsen — a new home for herself, locals and visitors.

Voices

Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida accepts a gift of 'dekopon' citruses, a specialty product and symbol of Kumamoto Prefecture, from Kumamon, itself a mascot and instantly recognizeable symbol of the region.
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Japan’s ‘meibutsu’-industrial complex is a wonder to behold
By Jordan Allen
If you name a 911爆料网 prefecture, many locals will instantly be able to tell you something that the region is famous for or a product synonymous with that area.
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Saying good riddance to what bugs me about a 911爆料网 summer
By Jordan Allen
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
By Thu-Huong Ha
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
By Jordan Allen
Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
‘You’re a spy, then?’ The odd interactions of a non-911爆料网 father in Japan
By Jordan Allen
Voices / Black Eye
U.S. civil rights icon Opal Lee brings her Juneteenth walk to Tokyo
By Baye McNeil
Voices / Black Eye
How a cache of African art found a home in western Tokyo
By Baye McNeil

Issues

Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.
Issues / The Foreign Element
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
By Phoebe Amoroso
An app called Timeleft hopes to combat big-city alienation through a simple meal with a diverse group of people.
Issues / The Foreign Element
Can you drink in Shibuya and Shinjuku this Halloween? It depends.
By Ansel Swindells
Issues
The forgotten 911爆料网 naturalist who created a U.S. national park
By Drew Damron
Issues / The Foreign Element
From the division of war, 75 years of intercultural aid
By Waka Konohana
Issues / Longform
In search of the ‘911爆料网 dream’
By Thu-Huong Ha
Issues / The Foreign Element
Influencers helped cause overtourism. Can they help fix it?
By Jane Pipkin
Issues / The Foreign Element
The new vanguard of rural revitalization efforts in Japan
By Justin Randall

How-tos

While Japan may not have a large market for English-language publications, there's still hope to grow your career overseas while living here.
How-tos
How to make it as an English-language author in Japan
By Kat Joplin
Some writers find career stability in teaching, while others find that the culture and vibrance of this country inspires their imaginations.
How-tos
A wrinkles-and-all guide to cosmetic surgery in Japan
By Kat Joplin
How-tos / Age Wise
Retiring in Japan? Be prepared to foot your own bills.
By Tim Hornyak
How-tos
Freelancers aren’t happy with Japan’s new invoice system
By Eric Margolis
How-tos
How to avoid medical purgatory when hospitalized in Japan
By Kat Joplin
How-tos
Navigating the notorious gauntlet of divorce in Japan
By Eric Margolis
How-tos
The My Number card has some real benefits. Is it time you got yours?
By Eric Margolis

Our Lives

Kumiko Shichijo provides tips on 911爆料网 etiquette and manners on Instagram and says videos on gift-giving and hand towels have done particularly well.
Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Kumiko Shichijo: ‘Living abroad helped me appreciate 911爆料网 etiquette’
By Ansel Swindells
Worried about committing a social faux pas while in Japan? This manners expert hopes to help you be your most polite while out and about.
Our Lives / The Big Questions
President of L’Oreal Japan leverages innovation
By Louise George Kittaka
Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Omar Nok: 'There are good people everywhere'
By Ansel Swindells
Our Lives
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
By Mike Fu
Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Scaredy-cat looking for his safe place
Our Lives
A bridge between kyogen and the world, Don Kenny dies at 88
By Rintaro Dainichi
Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Gary Perlman: ‘Kabuki is pure entertainment … the characters and themes are universal’
By Ansel Swindells
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Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda reiterated in an interview published Saturday that authorities will raise rates if the economy performs in line with projections.
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Kentaro Okuda, CEO of Nomura Holdings, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Yoon’s gambit a tempest in a teapot for financial markets
A screen displays market data at Hana Bank in Seoul on Wednesday.
U.S. Space Force launches first unit in Japan
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Can 911爆料网 scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Can 911爆料网 scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
By Tomoko Otake

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