It’s that time of the year again - when we are stuffed from Christmas feasting and anticipating another round of food and drink to ring in the New Year. Some of us are planning to watch fireworks, some have boozy gatherings with friends scheduled, while the rest are still deciding if they should use their Rediscover SG vouchers over the long break.
It has been a couple of years since some of us at Akadot TV has been able to visit Japan, no thanks to the pandemic, so picture our delight when we found out that Nissin was going to provide us with their newly-launched frozen pastas for our year-end get together!
In my previous article, I've talked about my struggles of getting to know people in Japan. Fortunately, I think I've cracked the formula on how to be part of Japanese society, which is actually pretty common sense.
A few years ago, a little shop in Azabu, Tokyo made the headlines on social media for selling Bak Kut Teh. Who is this Japanese man who brought Singapore’s popular spare rib soup to Japan?
Despite my eager efforts to forge friendships and integrate into the Japanese society, why weren't things working? One major takeaway from my university experience in Japan is that friendly people do not mean friends.
This heritage center pays no shortage of tribute in memoriam to the local forces, but it also implores us to explore the gravitas of conflict and the measures that good men and women must take to prevent such atrocities from happening ever again.
The mooncake season is on us again, with Mid-Autumn Festival taking place this year on 21 September. Traditionally, mooncakes have been known as baked pastries with that bronze sheen, opening up to reveal the pasty lotus seed filling enshrining that golden egg yolk within. This changed with the introduction of...
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...
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...
