Tokyo’s journey from Edo to the world’s largest urban area is a story of geography, history, and rapid modernization. 🌆 In ...

Along an unassuming street in the Koto city section of Tokyo sits a modest, three-story, red-brick building that gradually grows lighter in color toward the top, as if it were on fire. Inside, the ...

A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

On October 14, 1964, history was made on the track in Tokyo, Japan, as Billy Mills, a relatively unknown American runner, ...

Delayed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics were unlike any other. WIth its strict protocols, it was the first modern Olympic Games to be played without spectators. But these ...

The Tokyo Dome was the selected venue to host the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs as they play the first games of the 2025 regular season in Japan for the Tokyo Series as part of the MLB World ...

A couple walks past a poster for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics along a street in Tokyo on May 10, 2021. Story at a glance Gender representation at the delayed Tokyo Olympics will be nearly equal for the ...

Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Vol. 33/34, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Design, Culture and Urbanity in an Era of Dissonance (2021-2022), pp. 55-67 (13 pages) Kuresawa Takemi, Orinpikku to ...