Trip to Japan

Asia, Editor's Picks, People & Culture

Tokyo: The Enduring City

ByAren Bergstrom
November 10, 2023

When you’re in Tokyo, it doesn’t feel like you’re in the largest city in the world. It’s big, to be sure. Come sundown, crowds of workers flood out of Shinjuku Station like Hokusai’s famous Great Wave. In Shibuya to the…

Asia, People & Culture

This Is Omotenashi: The Joy of Japanese Hospitality

ByAren Bergstrom
August 24, 2023

You don’t have to understand Japanese to understand omotenashi. The meaning becomes apparent soon enough on a trip to Japan. It’s Japanese hospitality. “Omote” means “public face,” the false front you display for the public. “Nashi” means “nothing.” Taken together,…

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