Outside the supermarket today, a woman greeted me in the desperate way we have all been greeting each other this summer, whether friend or stranger; “Hot, isn’t it?” The weather report now talks not just about “mid-summer days,” but about...
In Japan, a very high 98.8% of students enter high school. There, most of them are required to wear school uniforms that typically are differentiated by gender and designated according to the sex the student was assigned at birth. As not all...
Buriizu Obu Eichi Co. has launched a craft vegan gelato brand “TUTTO” to produce 100% vegan gelato made from MYLK (a newly-made general term for plant-based milk including soy, almond and oat milk). TUTTO, which originated from the company’s gelato...
Zenbird Media held the event “Kyoto Gion Festival: How-To! 1,000-year community, Resilience & COVID” on July 14, with Catherine Pawasarat. She is the author of the world’s first comprehensive English-language guide to the Gion festival...
Poverty exists even in developed countries. The term “working poor” originated in the U.S., referring to people who work but earn below the poverty line, the minimum income required to maintain a living. The issue is beginning to gain...
Different logics and histories lay behind different discriminations, but the commonality is unwarranted prejudice. Understanding the problem is difficult for those who have not been discriminated against before. Furthermore, if the topic is taboo...
The climate clock is a visual countdown of the time we have left to take action before climate change reaches a tipping point that will result in damages that lasts for centuries. It is why the countdown has been coined “the most important number in...
Many places around the world, including Japan, still have a strong disposable culture. Japan has the second highest amount of disposable plastic waste per capita in the world. In order to realize a circular economy in which resources and products...
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Have you ever heard of “Obon?” It is one of the traditional events held in the summer in Japan. During this period, people invite the spirits of ancestors who have returned to this world to make generous offerings to them, and the...