Stephen Carr is a British writer and photographer who has contributed to newspapers and magazines around the world. He first came to Japan in 2000 to edit Japan Update, a weekly magazine in Okinawa. Now based in Nagoya, he has been writing for The Japan Times since 2010.
For Stephen Carr's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Stephen Carr asked people in Sakae, the entertainment district of Nagoya, what their resolutions and/or hopes were for 2017. Rodo Bustios Salsa dance studio owner, 35 (Peruvian) Peace in the world and to be a better karaoke singer! I have been working very hard for the last ...
People have their say on whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should push for constitutional revision now that he has the numbers in both houses of parliament to force a referendum on the issue.
Cinemagoers offer their opinions after a showing of the much-anticipated seventh installment in the "Star Wars" saga.
Toki, a small town in Gifu Prefecture, 37 km from Nagoya, sits above a huge clay basin. Pottery has been made here since ancient times. The world-famous Oribe style, which uses green copper glaze and bold painted designs was invented in Gifu more than 400 ...
Voters and non-voters alike give their views on today's Lower House election, which was called by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe only two years after the last one.
Of the 193,000 people who pass daily through the main station of Japan's third city, Nagoya, most are probably unaware they are in a building with no rival in the entire world. The station complex, known as the Twin Towers, is a Guinness World ...
Denizens of the Chubu capital offer their tuppence-worth on the impending 3-percent consumption tax hike to 8 percent from the start of the fiscal year.
"Maps put into pictures what policymakers traditionally see in numbers," says Elise Montiel-Welti, a researcher at Doshisha University who produces digital maps to explain global crises. "They also put us in perspective: We can see how small we are in the face of huge ...
South Korea. I have many Korean friends and I love going to Seoul. It is a wonderful city for shopping, eating and pampering yourself. Some of the food is rather like delicacies you can find in Japan, yet subtly different, such as tok, their ...
If you don't get into the ring once or twice, then you're a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people's attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
