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ex-section2 Jul 2, 2024

Boom! with a view

Fireworks festivals aren’t just a widely anticipated summer fixture in Japan, they’re also a cultural cornerstone, with thousands employed in fireworks-related jobs. Writer Manami Okazaki looks beyond the visual spectacle in this 2018 longform read. In a nutshell: Japan’s first fireworks display occurred during a ...

ex-section2 Jun 19, 2024

Minimum space, maximum return

Expensive real estate and the distinction of being the world’s most densely populated metropolis has resulted in Tokyo’s abodes generally being — by Western standards, at least — ridiculously small. But as Alex K.T. Martin learned in 2019, a new wave of architects and related ...