More than two months has passed since the quake. Students of an elementary school in Iwate prefecture record how their lives are going after the tsunami, in their “Disaster Diaries”….

On October 2, 1885, a great earthquake struck Edo (modern day Tokyo) and killed over 10,000 people. Since the very next day, multi colored catfish pictures called “namazu-e (catfish printing)”…

  The massive earthquake that hit Japan on March 11 damaged the antenna of a Tokyo’s trademark Tokyo Tower. The tip of the 332-meter (1,091 ft) tower slightly bent. According…

  On April 18th, JapanStyle began making one or two daily posts titled [Japan after Quake] on our Facebook page. And once a week on this blog I will compile…

After the disaster, a photographer wondered to himself; “What can I do for the disaster relief?” The answer was not easy. He kept asking himself again and again. He thought…

  A retired Japanese martial artist Genki Sudo cheers Japan up with his artistic music and dance performance. Being a versatile, he is also an essayist and actor. What he…

Last time, I made a post titled “Remnant Cooking: Bread”. In response to panic buying after the disaster, one blogger made bread out of bread crumbs. Today, I will introduce…

When you walk streets in Japan especially in suburb areas, you sometimes find sign boards shaped into a boy posing as if he rushes out into the street. There is…

The disaster on March 11 brought chaos even to non-devastated areas. One of  the confusions was “panic buying”. A little while ago, people rushed to stores to buy certain kinds…

  Since the March 11 earthquake, people often ask me “How is Tokyo right now?” So, I want to write what I know and noticed about recent Tokyo.   1….

One of the Japanese major publishers, Shueisha Inc. is now distributing its 15th issue of “Weekly Shone Jump” online for free because many readers couldn’t read it in consequence of…