The Japan Times

The Japan Times has been a member of Linktree for 8 years and joined in November 2017. The social media accounts linked to from The Japan Times are: Facebook, Threads, X, Bluesky. Besides social media accounts, thejapantimes has populated their site with From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition, Abe shooting suspect Yamagami pleads guilty to murder, Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock, New book scrutinizes sustainability of traditional Japanese textiles, Driving in Japan isn’t hard. Getting the license is., Sumo lights a ring of fire in London, What does Jimbocho think of its unexpected ‘cool’ status?, In pictures: The day Japan’s glass ceiling finally cracked, Sanae Takaichi makes history as Japan’s first female prime minister, How Japan’s greatest psychological horror game came home, As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?, Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity, Roasted green tea gets a milky makeover, Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity, Is Japan finally back? That’s the wrong question., A bucket becomes a house in the hands of craftsman Shuji Nakagawa, The party that ruled Japan for decades is in danger of crumbling, A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there, Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo, Artist Ari Bayuaji materializes monsters from ocean plastic, Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?, Aichi Triennale’s message to the art world: Free Palestine, 'For relaxing times...' don’t be a CEO like Suntory’s Niinami, National Stadium to finally fulfill destiny years after hosting Olympics without fans, The journey of Peru’s Nikkei: Finding identity in Japan, Tokyo Game Show 2025 leans into renewal and rebirth, Who’s who in the LDP presidential race?, Behold the glory of Japan’s fruit boxes, Japan's major art events converge this fall, Robot tour guides in Tokyo offer way for those with disabilities to work, Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’, Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo, ‘Perfect Days’ spent pondering the Japanese potty, Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships, An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills, Overnight mulberry matcha oats are the perfect answer to a busy morning, With a global approach, Syn gives French cuisine plenty of latitude, Canadian-born politician tackles Ibaraki’s issues big and small, Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition, 'He's a regular man, not unlike us': Marking 40 years of Mario games, Traditional Japanese erotic art exhibition puts female pleasure in focus, Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas, ‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem, The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight, Japan has ‘strictest standard in the world’ when it comes to CBD products, Jesse Kirkwood: ‘Languages are entire cultural universes with all sorts of baggage’, New rulebook for cycling in Japan details fines for minor violations, Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm, Stargazers marvel as the 'blood moon' rises, Bespoke coffee that needs to be savored slowly, ‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis, Japan is warming up to tattoos — just not permanent ones, Behind Tanikoretani’s quiet facade, a lively world of sake-fueled food, How Tokyo's Ueno Zoo helps their animals cope with extreme heat, Mark Japan’s Sleep Day by making some lifestyle changes, How the Allied Occupation changed Japan: A love story, Can anime carry the memories of World War II?, Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’, In pictures: Koenji Awa Odori 2025, Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball, Retired Tokyo trains live on as upcycled table lamps, Soma Nomaoi: Festival of tradition and resilience, Is sumo becoming a victim of its own popularity?, Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu, Top MLB prospect Rintaro Sasaki is committed to doing it 'the hard way', In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark, The great sports drink debate: What’s best for athletes?, In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’, At Himawari Shokudo 2, Italian food with a Japanese soul, Hidden rosters and the legacy of Japan’s germ warfare, The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731, A walk through Kokura, the city spared nuclear destruction, ‘Natasha’ distills global zeitgeist on the opera stage, Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan, Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat, The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person, Photographer Bleg Bayraktar is winning social media with politeness, Artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a hidden marvel on Teshima, 80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped, Fuji Rock Festival, Japan swelters as previous heat record melts, In Tokyo, fish-shaped ‘taiyaki’ treats offer a sea of options, Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet, With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear, 'Over the Sun': A podcast for Japanese women who’ve lived a little, Behind the scenes at the Baseball Hall of Fame's new Yakyu/Baseball exhibit, Communal knead: A Turkish baker in Kamakura draws queues, The juicy tale of Saitama's prized yuzu, Cats, dogs, meerkats, goats: Interpets trade fair draws furry hordes, Who buys the F-150s, and more Japan deal mysteries, Traditional Japanese swordsmanship — with modern matches, Junglia, Japan’s newest theme park, opens in northern Okinawa, How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan, JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025, Sega’s first Japan store signals ‘immersive entertainment’ push, What to pack if you are heading to the Fuji Rock Festival, Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies, Tobias Bieker: ‘A good interviewer helps the guest shine’, Road-tripping through central Hokkaido? Don't miss these bakeries, A trained star: The Australian singer who became the voice of the shinkansen, Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour, A tiny mountain hamlet keeps traditional log rafting afloat, Diva of dualities: Maria Seiren sings opera and noh in both a female and male voice, Lawson beta tests futuristic convenience store with KDDI, Cultural anxiety and Japan's immigration pains, The science of shinrin-yoku: Why forest bathing feels good, Miho Koshiba: ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if people looked forward to Mondays?’, With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining, Kim Jong Un’s nuclear lessons should trouble the rest of us, Washoku may prevent depression, Japan study says, What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji, Trump abandons ‘America First’ for Middle East quagmire, Ken Goldin brings his sports memorabilia from Netflix to Tokyo, As Japan warms, avocados emerge as an unlikely savior for farmers, A buzzing zine scene across Japan packs passion in multiple formats, King of Japan’s arcades, Sega’s UFO Catcher turns 40, Stage dive into summer: Japan’s best music festivals, month by month, 'Rice swindler,' 'Face thief': Worried citizens invent new monsters, At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree, Revitalizing the space under Tokyo’s train tracks, ‘Frontline — Yokohama Bay’ revisits nation’s first pandemic struggles, Four restaurants from Japan earn spots on World’s 50 Best list, Japan needs to rethink how it helps hikikomori, The underlying risks to Japan’s undersea cables, Japanese mollusks with a tangy lift, 'Uketsu': The internet phantom haunting Japan's bestseller lists, Mao Asada sets out to safeguard the future of Japanese skating, Cut and dried daikon: A time-tested frugal treat, The high cost of letting Japan's condos crumble, Aboard Japan’s most luxurious train, the journey is the destination, As the rest of Japan shrinks, Tokyo grows, Toyama’s finest seafood underpins Ebitei Bekkan’s return to greatness, Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly, Slowly but surely, Osaka emerges from Kyoto’s fine-dining shadow, Tokyo’s vinyl experts say overseas buyers are ‘sustaining the scene’, ‘Resorts for the spirit’: Touring Kagawa’s art and architecture, JR's 'futuristic' Takanawa Gateway complex set to open in Tokyo, Eighty years after the Battle of Manila, old foes forge new ties, World’s first public bonsai museum reopens after renovations, The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan, Traveling the Three-Star Road, the tourist route made from thin air, Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it, Stop-motion sci-fi saga ‘Junk World’ expands its bizarre universe, After a tumultuous buildup, a first look at the Osaka Expo, Heaven from hells: The sulfuric pleasure of Unzen Onsen, As rice prices rise, a bit of tea adds needed luxury, A new tour of Tokyo’s most underground attraction, Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar, Craft Sake Week is back with its usual brand of cool, Osaka wants to show off its artistic talents, Thumbprint cookies with a tangy Japanese filling, If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami, Expo '25 gives the world a masterclass in mascots, Savoy, Tokyo’s top pizzeria, fires up in Sapporo, Hiraku Morilla: ‘Pride means respect for those who walked so we could run’, The sushi cone that changed everything, A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan, Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories, What comes after 100?, Sculpted waves, sleek updos: Showa hairstyles are back in fashion, Oliver Rowland’s ‘dream’ Formula E season continues as Nissan driver wins in Tokyo, A Japanese dining icon gets a (minor) facelift, Fighting Osaka Expo fatigue? Walk the 21-km Loop Line for a cure., As spring unfolds, sea bream turns into a prized catch, In search of untouched Japan? Meet Hokkaido’s newest hiking trail., Are microplastics hurting our fertility?, A multisensory exhibition of washi paper unfolds at London Design Biennale, Emerging Asian artists converge at the 'world’s most beautiful museum', Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?, Atsuko Okatsuka brings big 'dad' energy to new special, Atsuko Okatsuka brings big 'dad' energy to new special, Mateusz Urbanowicz: ‘Miyazaki inspired me to put the audience first’, Brewed from rice, water and tomatoes: The growth of ‘craft sake’Brewed from rice, water and tomatoes: The growth of ‘craft sake’, ‘I Have a S/e/c/r/e/t’ gives teen angst a whimsical twist, Montbell founder went from a feeble boy to a renowned mountaineer, Japan can ride the anime wave to become the new soft superpower, AI hallucinations? What could go wrong?, What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?, China is eroding Japan's LNG dominance. How does that affect Japanese buyers?, ‘Jinsei’: Ryuya Suzuki’s solo animation is a singular debut, New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West, How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic, ‘Strangers in Kyoto’: Tea, tradition and passive-aggressive politeness, At Tokyo Pride’s first queer art exhibition, intimacy and resistance share the wall, Golden Dome is a glittering gamble — and a likely mistake, The empanada that's secretly a gyoza inside, In a Japanese winter, homemade ‘oden’ warms the body and soul, In Niigata, a winter (and real estate) wonderland, 'Noto is kind, right down to its soil': A community's long road to recovery, Ishikawa quake rescue efforts ramp up as crucial time window narrows, In Ishikawa, shelter for people but not four-legged friends.