Edits / Travel
It's Arrived
It’s not just 30 minutes closer to central Tokyo than Narita. The new international terminal at Haneda Airport is also a unique retail concept.
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Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 13 May
The temptations of Tokyo
Technical innovation, artistic acumen and an improving economy: it's a good time to think about setting up home in Japan.
Affairs / Environment
04 - Tokyo
Integrated transport, breathtaking technology, great service and the best bars make this our top big city.
Culture / Diplomacy
Tokyo story
As part of our series on the foreign media coverage of the US presidential election, Aya Igarashi of ‘The Yomiuri Shimbun’ explains why Japan is worried about having a Democrat in the White House.
Design / Craft
Tokyo Designers Week
In the wake of a very difficult year for Japan, Monocle heads to Tokyo for its annual design week to see how the city and country is using craft heritage to attract new business.
Design / Interior design
Tokyo Designer’s Week
Tokyo Designer's Week has become an annual fixture in the creative calendar, with the city literally taken over by exhibitions, events and parties. Monocle explores the shops and galleries of Aoyama, Harajuku and Shibuya…
Design / Property
Friends in high places
Shared living often means shared cost and lower quality. But in Tokyo, The Share, an innovative scheme offering modest personal spaces linked to sprawling, well-designed communal areas, is attracting a new breed of house…
Culture / Television
Tokyo Limousine Bus Lady
Kaoru Kubo welcomes thousands of travellers to Japan every day. A former announcer for public broadcaster NHK Kubo has, for 23 years, been the voice of the Airport Limousine buses that ferry passengers to and from Narita…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 31 March
Japan focus: Returning to Tokyo
At first it feels reassuringly familiar. The sun is shining in Shibuya, salarymen are rushing around and teens are chatting as they make their way across the famous crossing. But there are telling signs of change.
Culture / Music
m-flo: Summer Time Love
Just when you thought all the fun and sugar had been stripped from the pop video, along comes Summer Time Love from m-flo's new album Cosmicolor. Released as a single last summer, we are particularly fond of Verbal's sharp…
Affairs / Retail
Monocolumn
Friday 23 November
Time-managed tinsel
Christmas seems to have come earlier than ever in Tokyo. The Halloween pumpkins had barely come down when the Christmas decorations appeared. And they are lavish.
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Sunday 14 October
Generous hosts
After a week of meetings, seminars, press conferences and photo opportunities, the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank – the first to be held in Tokyo in 48 years – came to a close…
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Thursday 23 June
Japan tries to keep its cool
The world news agenda might have moved on to new locations, but the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster in Japan on 11 March continues to make headline news at home. As summer approaches and…
Affairs / Travel
Monocolumn
Sunday 24 July
Geothermal exponents and hot spring industry clash over Japan's future
No amount of publicity could persuade the usual crowd of Tokyoites and overseas tourists to the popular springs in the three hardest-hit prefectures – Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 March
Japan focus: jitters in the east and continuity in the west
If you happened to have been on any of the crowded bullet trains that left Tokyo for Kyoto, Osaka and Hakata last night, you might have thought that Japan was in the midst of a population boom.
Affairs / Fashion
Monocolumn
Wednesday 9 March
Here come the gals
Japanese “gyaru” (gal) fashion works to a different set of rules.
Culture / Books
Monocolumn
Friday 16 July
How to keep them begging for more
Japan’s best-selling novel of 2009 was 1Q84, Haruki Murakami’s complex story of dwarves, cults and assassins set in Japan in 1984.
Affairs / Business Hubs
Monocolumn
Sunday 4 July
Japanese dads told to stay at home
Never mind politics and sex. There are two words that are infinitely more taboo when spoken in the confines of a Japanese office: “paternity” and “leave”.