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SADA ABE: Japan’s Showa Sex Scandal

By the age of 31 - Sada Abe was the most notorious woman in Japan and at the center of a murderous sex scandal that shocked the Showa era public

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1964 OLYMPICS: Tokyo’s Rebirth

1964, the first year that Tokyo hosted the Olympic Games, marked a turning point in post war Japanese society and, for many, announced the rebirth of the nation

ben leighton 5/31/21 ben leighton 5/31/21

DEMAEKI: Japan’s enduring contraption

With today’s reliance on apps for food delivery, it’s easy to think of it as an entirely modern phenomenon. In Japan however, food delivery, or demae (出前), goes back 300 years