Otemachi, the long-standing downtown business district of Tokyo, is currently playing host to a number of the capital’s most opulent luxury hotels. One of the standouts is the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo…

The author of probably the 20th century’s most profoundly spiritual novels, Shusaku Endo is often overlooked in terms of his influence and impact on world literature. Sidelined, perhaps, due to the international…

Labeling Ryuji Fujimura as “an architect” doesn’t seem to do him justice. Of course, he has headed his own very successful business, Ryuji Fujimura Architects (RFA), since 2005 but he has evolved…

Although Tokyo, in some ways, is an old-fashioned city with centuries-old structures and traditions in place, it can also, on the other hand, live up to its name as a futuristic metropolis.…

Building, growing and progressing. Moving forward, pushing creative margins, fighting against the natural practice of looking back to easier and more comfortable times, to rail against what F. Scott Fitzgerald writes as…

Despite being a tiny nation in the north of Europe, Scotland packs a punch in terms of its global cultural, theoretical and technological influences and innovations. Television (John Logie Baird), the telephone…

In our series, 8am Coffee, TW editor Paul McInnes meets up with new and old friends to have leisurely discussions about their lives in Tokyo, various projects and anything else that they can think…

Japanese art is, when you delve deep, a lot more than just big-hitting superstars like Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami and Nobuyoshi Araki. The multifarious art scenes within Japan and the spectrum of…