Tokyo still has a few areas where you can experience the shitamachi or old downtown vibe, and one of them is Shibamata, a retro neighborhood popularly known among the Japanese as the fictive hometown of protagonist Torajiro Kuruma or Tora-san, the kind-hearted vagabond who is always unlucky in love.

MANILA – Japan will contribute grant assistance to strengthen the novel coronavirus vaccine cold chain equipment and logistics in the Philippines through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

TOKYO/MANILA – Heart Evangelista let her 9.5 million Instagram followers know that she is the cover star of Filipino-Japanese Journal (FJJ) January 2022 issue.

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urged people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to get boosted once they receive their vaccination voucher, as Japan battles the sixth wave of the pandemic, driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant.