What next for Japan's women?
30 June 2020Japan's women are experimenting with new femininities in challenging times, a new book reveals
How Japan’s ‘salaryman’ is becoming cool
02 February 2018Japanese men are becoming cool. The suit-and-tie salaryman remodels himself with beauty treatments and 'cool biz' fashion. Loyal company soldiers are reborn as cool, attentive fathers. Hip-hop dance is as manly as martial arts. Could it even be cool for middle-aged men to idolise teenage girl popstars?
Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library
14 June 2017A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children’s adaptation of one of Japan’s greatest works of literature.
Rescuing normality: Day-to-day life inside Japan’s disaster shelters
08 November 2013Life inside Japan’s disaster shelters following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster has been revealed by the only researcher to stay alongside evacuees and survivors.
