- Rare pieces of French glass art at the Mirai Museum of Art
- Feast on fresh fish and seafood at the 2024 ‘Sakana’ Festival
- Would you like to ride in a Louis Vuitton gondola lift?
- Naked Snow Aquarium
- Festive lights at Yomiuriland will get you feeling the holiday vibes
- Yomiuriland holiday illumination
- Biota of the Imperial Palace
All posts tagged "Community"
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Guidebook on Living and Working (in Japan)
As you settle into your new life in Japan, you will find the English guidebook compiled by the Immigration Agency of Japan, useful. Whether you want to know the labour rules enforced in Japan or how much...
- Posted January 24, 2024
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Eating disorders: Rates in children reach new highs
Three years following the COVID-19 outbreak, the number of children in Japan diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, remains unusually high. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which people have abnormally low body weight as a result of...
- Posted November 24, 2023
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Tokyo is at persistent risk of a disaster. Prepare your family.
Japan predicts a 70% chance of an earthquake directly hitting Tokyo in the next 30 years. Do you ever wonder how your family would escape if an earthquake shook your building or your home was engulfed in...
- Posted October 31, 2023
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Saitama prefecture to introduce a new ordinance against leaving kids at home alone.
Although leaving kids home alone is viewed as a form of abuse in many developed countries, it is legally permitted in Japan. The practice is perhaps due to Japan’s relatively safe communities. But Saitama Prefecture is poised...
- Posted October 5, 2023
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The International Youth Orchestra is looking for young musicians
The International Youth Orchestra at Tokyo College of Music is looking for young musicians who play orchestral instruments for the orchestral. This is an excellent opportunity for students who are between the ages of 12-18 (with exceptions)...
- Posted January 23, 2023
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Do you live in an aging wooden house in Tokyo? Expect to get a seismic circuit breaker from the government.
Many wooden houses in the eastern and southern parts of Tokyo often built so close to each other are considered vulnerable to fires after an earthquake. The roads in between are also too narrow for fire engines...
- Posted January 23, 2023
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Petit Bateau Japan has started a buy back program and collection service
In 2020, French children’s apparel maker Petit Bateau adopted a slogan: ‘Freedom, Quality, and Sustainability’. It has been blazing its sustainability trail since. In 2021, it started Petit Baton in France, a buy-back program and collection service...
- Posted January 21, 2023
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The Tokyo Tower Climb returns. Will you step to the challenge?
After community fundraising activities were disrupted by the pandemic, TELL returns with the Tokyo Tower Climb in conjunction with the Step Up Challenge! In 2021, 856 participants took over 7 million steps to support suicide awareness and...
- Posted July 27, 2022
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Taiwan recognizes first same gender marriage between a Japanese-Taiwanese couple.
In May last year, Japanese-Taiwanese same gender couple – Eizaburo Ariyoshi, 42, and Lu Yin-jen, 34, submitted a notification of their marriage to authorities in the southern Taiwan county of Pingtung where they live. The authorities flatly...
- Posted July 22, 2022
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Number of Foreign residents in Japan are at a record low
The number of foreign residents in Japan by the end of 2021 was 2,760,635 or 4.4% less than the previous year. This has been the sharpest decline seen since Japan started recording data in 1950, the Immigration...
- Posted March 30, 2022
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Half of Japan’s Job Burnout-related suicides happened within 6 days after the onset of depression symptoms
Japan reported that 497 suicides between 2012 and 2017 were karojisatsu or job burnout-related. In 47.3 percent of these cases, suicide happened in less than a week after the symptoms of depression or other mental diseases started,...
- Posted October 26, 2021
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Tell presents “Together with TELL” this holiday season
In a year that none of us could have ever anticipated, TELL has been there every single day without fail providing support, resources, and connections as many struggled with the economic and social impact of COVID-19. Ten...
- Posted December 15, 2020
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It’s not the virus that poses a risk to Japan’s food supply. It’s the panic-buying.
Rumors of a lockdown after the fiscal year ends on March 31st, are driving shoppers to hoard food. The dramatic shift to frantic shopping resulting in empty store shelves has sparked another rumor that Japan’s food supply...
- Posted April 3, 2020
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How to make a mask out of kitchen paper towels.
As Japan enters a new phase of coronavirus outbreak, not having masks for protection is a major disruption to our daily life. Most convenience stores in the city replenish their stocks everyday. But due to the high...
- Posted February 26, 2020
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Support Tokyo’s important literary resource
The sharp increase of people buying and selling books online has had an impact on the number of traditional bookstores catering to the needs of the expat community in Japan. It wasn’t long ago when Good Day...
- Posted September 4, 2019
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Mental health: NPO raises funds for crisis Lifeline serving Japan’s international community
TELL, an NPO that has championed mental health and well-being in Japan for over 45 years, will host the second annual fund-raising event, TELL Tokyo Tower Climb, on Sunday, September 9 as part of its global...
- Posted August 21, 2018
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Fighting Hay Fever in Japan
This time of year, the pharmacies are rubbing their hands together whilst we are rubbing our eyes, that is if you are one of the 20 million plus sufferers of hay fever here in Japan. For families...
- Posted February 13, 2018
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School lunch harassment at Japanese schools
In Japan, there’s a reason children are not allowed to bring lunch box to school – eating lunch together provided by the school is part of their education and cultivation. Japanese school lunches are generally balanced with...
- Posted December 17, 2017
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How to get your child’s foot in the door of a modeling agency in Japan
Break into the world of modeling
- Posted May 23, 2017
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A look at a Japanese Daycare Center
There are many things that work in Japan that won’t work in other countries. One of them is the ability of children to be independent and go about their day-to-day tasks with no parent or guardian in...
- Posted March 4, 2017
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Danseur and Teacher James Amar gives ballet lessons to children.
Tokyo families catches up with James. What brought you to Japan? The wish to always come back! I came to Japan for the first time in 1981 (at age 11) with the Paris Opera Ballet...
- Posted August 17, 2016
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Mommy-friendly Nail and Beauty Salons in Tokyo with kids playroom
Are your hands aching for some TLC? Are you looking for a place where kids can come too? We listened, we searched and we found! Just hop on the train and get some pampering at any of...
- Posted August 12, 2016
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Arigato Japan wants families to try its newly launched cooking classes and food tours.
From finding good food off the beaten track to teaching how to cook an authentic Japanese dish, this resourceful Tokyoite turned her love of Japan into a business. Tokyo families catches up with Arigato Japan’s founder, Anne...
- Posted April 19, 2016
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What foreign residents say about quality of family life in Yokohama
What inspires feelings about a city is the people that make up its community. There are 3.7 million residents (1.6M households) including 75,297 foreigners who live and work in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city. What many people...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Could you be jailed in Japan if you homeschooled your kids?
There are many resources about homeschooling in the United States to which some 2 million students have access. Here in Japan, I am surprised by how little information there is about education options for children in non-traditional...
- Posted February 23, 2016
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Consumer Protection in Japan
Q Recently we bought a ¥70,000 stroller online. When it arrived, we found out the features were somewhat different from the details on the vendor’s website so we decided to return the stroller and demand a refund....
- Posted October 10, 2015
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Japan welfare program plans to aid moms and dads
As women’s participation in the work force becomes increasingly important to Japan’s economic future, the Japanese government will introduce subsidies to companies that will allow dads to take time off to care for their children and promote...
- Posted October 3, 2015
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Star Kids International Preschool
Tokyo mum makes room for early learners in Minato-ku. Because this is Tokyo, there’s always a new restaurant to try, an entertaining event to watch and loads of stuff to do. Parents – this month, you have...
- Posted September 7, 2015
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An interview with Leza Lowitz
The journey to self-discovery through Yoga by American expat, Yoga studio owner and book author, Leza Lowitz, changed her approach to love and motherhood. Leza has penned 18 books including HERE COMES THE SUN: A journey to...
- Posted September 7, 2015
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Cooking with Tao
At age 18, Spain-born Tao Romera Martinez left his hometown Murcia to attend the INSA university in Rennes, France. Ten years ago, he came to Tokyo to do a six-month internship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology...
- Posted August 14, 2015