Contemporary Culture

3 hours of music, dance, DJs and drinks. Also featuring special guests, The Dream Team, with a singer alleged to be the second-coming of Whitney Houston. Feature live performances by…

I love Japan and many Japanese people are hard-working, honest, and polite. That doesn't mean the society doesn't have problems, such as child poverty, gender inequality, discrimination against: the handicapped,…

Weekly SPA, a magazine famed for insisting that sex and money are the only things worth striving for, came out with a story in late December about which colleges had…

Today, submissions open for the True Story Award, the first global award for reporters writing for newspapers, magazines and online publications. The prize recognises written reportage from all countries and…

の賞は、新聞、雑誌そしてオンラインメディアで活躍する世界中の優れたリポーターを表彰するものです。リポーターの国籍を問わずに、門戸が開かれている賞は、世界でも初めてのものです。この賞では、世界で最も使用されている12言語で書かれたルポルタージュを、地球上の全ての国から応募し、表彰します。徹底した調査、ジャーナリズムとしてのクオリティ、そして社会との関係性を備えたテクストに、賞が授与されます。

But if you think you can’t go through daily life without mobile data, you are wrong. We’ve survived for millennia without it, and when the next natural disaster in Japan…

For the second-straight year, Tokyo-based indie rock band Instant Karma is teaming up with the Second Harvest Japan food bank to help feed the less fortunate. The band is holding…

"I want you to think about all the mistakes you've made in your life up to this point," the Samurai tells his bleeding victim. "You have plenty of time for…

Hayakawa imagines a near future in which the government launches the titular program: people over 75 are offered a quick and painless euthanising. In 美しい国, the story revolves around an…

For the privileged residents in Minami Aoyama, it's hard to admit that unhappiness and tragedy exists, and harder still to have to live with a problematic institution in their own…