During my travels to Japan in October/November, I gave Gillian Ferguson, supervising producer of...
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I’ve been going to Ni-Chome, in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, long before writing...
Tokyo Story, reflecting on my 30 years of covering...
On November 14 I had the honor of being a guest speaker at a...
There are Chinatowns in several port cities in Japan, including Yokohama and Nagasaki. I...
I’m sitting here in my home office, looking out the window at bare trees,...
It would be hard not to relive some of the emotions we...
I consider Himeji Castle to be Japan’s most beautiful fortress. Completed in 1618...
This <a title="Then and Now: How the Japanese Cleared up Debris after Quake and...
I just read that Apple has introduced an earthquake alert app on its newest...
After a four-month hiatus, the Tsukiji Fish Market has reopened its early-morning tuna auction...
I was interviewed by the Japan Times while I was in Tokyo. Actually, the...
The Japan National Tourist Organization said my first video in May drew 1,000 hits...
I was interviewed by a reporter at the Washington Post. Unfortunately, after he turned...
I’ve been in Tokyo five days. The most noticeable change occurred right when I...
I am leaving in two weeks for Tokyo to update Frommer’s Tokyo. While by...
This blog was written by a nurse who went to the tsunami-stricken area of...
This is a good first-person account of a Western journalist in Japan just after...
I finally got my guide book contract for Frommer’s Tokyo yesterday, with the due...
It’s been more than three weeks since I received an early-morning telephone call on...