ENTERTAINMENT
Summer Sonic Festival Promises Foreign Acts Despite Tight Border Control
With spouses, job-seekers, students and more stuck outside of Japan, a festival's claims at getting foreign talent into Japan grates.
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ENTERTAINMENT
LIVING IN JAPAN
The Zairyu Card App: An Invasion of Privacy
A government app designed to spot residency card forgeries puts the foreign community of Japan on edge, increasing feelings of alienation.
POLITICS
JP Twitter Rages: “You’ll Kill Everyone for the Olympics?!”
As the Olympics loom, Japanese-language Twitter explodes in anger at the Japanese government's insistence of sports over safety.
POLITICS
Japanese Politicians Sound Off on Suga-Biden Summit
From strengthening the military to continuing the Olympics, there was plenty wrong about the visit.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Chargeman Ken and Other Popular Japanese Memes: A Retrospective
From the Olympics to the ongoing pandemic, there was plenty of material for Japanese people to make fun of in 2020.
LIVING IN JAPAN
Tochigi Forest Fires Show No Sign of Stopping
Forest fires in Tochigi show no sign of slowing down - and evacuation of residents has been hampered by COVID-19 complications.
ENTERTAINMENT
Deaf Filmmaker’s New Documentary Spotlights Deaf Natural Disaster Victims
A new film by a deaf filmmaker highlights the struggles that deaf people in Japan face during emergency situations.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
Is the Bubble Coming to Japan Again?
Japan might be seeing another economic bubble - but compared to the last one, this one is, as one user put it,…