Sofia Rodriguez– Author –

Imagine you’re walking through Shibuya in 1995. You duck out of the world-famous scramble crossing, sidestepping the tidal wave of shoppers and salarymen, and slip into a side street in the Udagawacho district. The air changes here. The ...

You hear it before you see it. A rhythmic, almost percussive chorus of slurps cutting through the steam-filled air of a tiny, ten-seater shop tucked into a Tokyo backstreet. To the uninitiated Western ear, it might sound like a breach of...

Every now and then, a Japanese concept drifts into the global consciousness, gets filtered through the wellness industry, and lands on a list of life hacks somewhere between intermittent fasting and bulletproof coffee. A few years ago, t...

It’s easy to think of hiking as a timeless, unchanging pursuit. You picture stoic figures in earth-toned gear, battling the elements with a quiet grit, their focus solely on the summit. For a long time in Japan, that picture was largely ...