Tokyo

Those worried about Tokyo’s military don’t appreciate how the Japanese view their ‘defense’ forces.

Tokyo joins Istanbul and Madrid in the final three slugging it out for the right to hold the 2020 Olympics.

March 11, when the earthquake and tsunmai hit, was surreal. And left lasting impressions on Japanese spirit.

Anti-nuclear demonstrations following the Fukushima crisis are something new, but not quite an embrace of protest.

Readers talk about milk shortages following the earthquake. And a grand institution makes a classy exit.

Despite media hype about the radiation dangers, the Fukushima nuclear crisis won’t end like Chernobyl, Alexander Sich tells The Diplomat.

Clever media manipulation keeps Tokyo’s controversial governor in the spotlight ahead of the gubernatorial poll.

Despite there being only two months until Tokyo’s gubernatorial poll, there’s so far only one official candidate.

A Japan-based travel guide author gives us the scoop on Wallpaper* City Guides.

According to one of the world’s top culinary authorities, Tokyo is now the gourmet capital of the world. The Michelin Guide 2010, released this month, gave restaurants in Japan’s capital a collective 261 stars (with 11 establishments receiving the ma

I mentioned last week that we could look forward to an exclusive peek into Tokyo Designers Week from Wallpaper* magazine’s Japan correspondent, Gordon Kanki Knight. And despite feeling slightly under-the-weather–likely from all of the running about-

The design spotlight is currently on Japan’s capital city.  Tokyo Designers Week 2009 starts this weekend with a flourish of events and parties scattered around the metropolis. Last year, I was lucky enough to go to one of the exclusive after-pa