History is made at night

As Japan industrialised in the late 19th and early 20th century large numbers of young women were employed in textile mills, often living in...

In 'And I Dance with Somebody: Queer History in a Japanese Nightclub' ( History Workshop Journal, Autumn 2020 ), Mark Pendleton  ref...

From Haruki Murakami's 'After Dark', 2004: 'The record ends. the automatic turntable lifts the needle, and the tone arm d...

Ko-uta is a genre of Japanese music which developed from the 19th century. It literally means 'little song' and indeed the songs te...

I wish I'd taken some more and better photos during my one and only trip to Japan, back in the 1990s. But I remember wandering around Yo...

Yesterday's Telegraph reports that a Manga introduction to Marx's Capital has recently been published in Japan - cover below (for m...

Tracy K recalls nights out dancing from Tamworth to Tokyo, via London and Aberystwyth . The tale of dancing in Tokyo with Belle and Sebasti...

In late 19th century and early 20th century Japan, thousands of young women workers were recruited from villlages to work in the cotton and ...