Selected Features

•  Tokyo Olympics ban hugging and handshakes but handout 160,000 ‘souvenir’ condoms … should games go ahead? - The Belfast Telegraph

• Finding Solace in a Tokyo Bookshop - Intrepid Times

• Japan shrugs as Americans fume over Gwen Stefani ‘appropriation’ - Al Jazeera

• Japonisme 2.0: A Global Art Meta-Genre - Deeper Japan

• Japan’s leadership: Kishida takes the helm as PM, maintaining the LDP status quo - The Independent

• Living the dream: Dublin scientist’s mission to catch ‘big fish’ UFOs of Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch - The Irish Independent

• Japan May Have To Give Up on the South Kuril Islands - Tokyo Weekender

• Welcome to the new Jazz Age: Why the music scene in NI is ‘the best we’ve ever had’ - The Belfast Telegraph

• In Praise of Silence: Japan’s Ancient Relationship to the Absence of Noise - Deeper Japan

• Jazz Kissa: A Musical Culture Unique to Japan - Tokyo Weekender

• 'The Outsider' brings out colorful personality of one of history’s great Japanophiles- The Japan Times

• Tetsuya Ishida: A Despairing Retrospective - Tokyo Weekender

• Cash Incentives Will Do Little to Revitalize Japan’s Countryside - Tokyo Weekender

• As war enters year two, Ukrainians are filling Japan’s tech gap - Al Jazeera

• Dejima: Walking in the Footsteps of Jacob de Zoet - Tokyo Weekender