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  • culture/ Jun 16, 2026

    The Other National Sport

    How football built itself a home in a generation — borrowed name, hometown clubs, and a national team that lives abroad.

    A worn, scuffed leather football resting against a white net on grass.
  • daily-life/ Jun 13, 2026

    Kickoff at 4am

    The 2026 World Cup drops Japan's group games into the small hours — and what the country actually does in the dark for it.

    A condensation-covered silver drink can on a dark slate surface before a lit cooler.
  • culture/ May 21, 2026

    Three Days of Noise

    If Kyoto's Aoi is a whisper, Tokyo's Sanja is a shout — the few sanctioned days a restrained society lets itself be deafening.

    A gilded phoenix figure with spread wings perched atop a black-and-gold, rope-bound portable shrine.
  • daily-life/ Apr 11, 2026

    Sixteen Kinds of Rubbish

    A returned bag, sixteen categories, and the local calendar that actually runs your life — Japan's household waste sorting as a working system.

    A clear plastic bag of sorted cans inside a yellow mesh net, set on a kerb beside a concrete wall.
  • daily-life/ Mar 28, 2026

    The Last Flip Phone

    When Docomo switches off 3G this March, the gara-kei dies — and a generation's thumb-typed fluency goes dark with it.

    A silver clamshell flip phone, closed, on a wooden tabletop in soft natural light.