The mooncake season is on us again, with Mid-Autumn Festival taking place this year on 21 September. Traditionally, mooncakes have...
If you’ve travelled to Japan before, you’re likely to have taken a JR train before. Did you know that the...
As a Japanese parent in Singapore, Tsutomu Takasuka is constantly wondering what kind of identity his children will grow up with. “I often ask them what nationality they are, and all three of them say that they are Singaporean”, says Tsutomu.
During this pandemic time when many Singaporeans in Japan are unable to travel home, a small cozy café located in...
3-D drawings featuring alluringly fluffy lions and glittery rainbows – chalk artist Rica does this all effortlessly using simple oil...
Saori Wada, the owner of SEQYA, is a cheerful middle-aged lady who makes you feel instantly welcome the moment you step into her store. SEQYA is a relatively new addition to Concorde Hotel in Somerset, a welcome pop of colour in a largely grey-and-white strata mall. A hair and makeup...
Japanese paper arts are world-famous, as are the raw materials themselves. Think delicate origami figurines and exquisite sheets of washi,...
I was 15 when I made up my mind to attend university in Japan. At that time, armed with JLPT...
Most Japanese expats would be intimately familiar with MBS, the Merlion, and the glitz and glam a la Crazy Rich Asians. Megumi Nakazawa, however, wants to show her countrymen a different side of the island she has lovingly called home since 2004. Even after 15 years of living in Singapore,...
Where is home, truly? Mika Tan and Yuki Takeda, a Singaporean-Japanese couple, talk to us over tea about the joys...
Hinamatsuri, or Dolls’ Day, falls on 3rd March each year. We speak to 2 Singapore-based Japanese ladies to find out what it means to be a Japanese woman in this day and age.
In the heart of Kyoto stands two 100-year-old traditional townhouses that were restored by a group of Singaporeans and Malaysians. Lee Yong Chye, a graduate from Osaka University, believes in giving back to Japan by contributing to the preservation of this important cultural heritage, which is slowly diminishing in modern...
Being expected to perform on par with Japanese peers is a major hurdle faced by international students in Japan. Nevertheless,...
Prof. Chong Tow Chong, president of SUTD, is a graduate of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1974-1978). He reminisces about the costly yet poor overseas phone calls of those days, as well as how he and his classmates, under the tutelage of Yasuharu Suematsu, discovered and received a patent for...
