Fukushima All aboard one of Japan’s most scenic train lines
A local photographer’s passion for his hometown saves a disaster-wrought railway in Fukushima. Here's my piece for the J...
Fukushima 
Tokyo Night Bakery Gives Bread and Jobs to Those in Need
Here's my piece for Tokyo Weekender, featuring an initiative led by a culinary expert to help people in need, while redu...
Nara Maruto Shoyu: Nara’s oldest soy sauce warehouse back as a hotel
Here's my article for Japan Travel. It’s a revival story of a centuries-old soy sauce brewery in the ancient Japanese ca...
Kyoto Natsumame in Kyoto Vows to Make You Love Natto
The fermented soybeans are notoriously pungent, but a natto restaurant in Kyoto gives tips for getting that first bite d...
Tokyo Avatar Robot Café Dawn: Power to the People With Disabilities
Here's my article for Tokyo Weekender, featuring Avatar Robot Cafe Dawn. At this café, people living with ALS and other ...
Tokyo How Kohei Matsuno Makes 3D Latte Art Magic at Hatcoffee
Here's my article for Tokyo Weekender, featuring a pioneering 3D latte artist who runs his own cafe in Kuramae, near Asa...
Kyoto Sarasa Nishijin
A historic bathhouse given a second lifeHere's my article on a Kyoto café created by renovating a charming old sento bat...
Tokyo Kitaya Park in Shibuya
A revamped park hosting the area's first Blue Bottle CoffeeHere’s my piece for Japan Travel on a nice place to take a re...
Tokyo Homeless people in Japan can stay with their pets, thanks to Street Cat Bob
Here’s my article for the British magazine The Big Issue.
Kanazawa Kutani Ware Designed to Help Japanese Craftspeople and Ukrainian Refugees
Industrial designer Yohei Inagaki laments loss of cultural assets and takes action. Here's my article for Tokyo Weekende...