Why not live together with friends with a wide variety of perspectives (such as nationality, age, gender, and values), and through experience programs (various genres and interests), while interacting with nature, deepening your understanding of local and international exchange and the U.N. sustainable development goals and create a place where you can cultivate each other’s…

Suu Suu Chaiyoo Co. Ltd, a company that owns 15 stores in Tokyo and Thailand including authentic Thai restaurants such as “Krung Siam”, “Old Thailand”, “Thai Food Laboratory” and “Thai Street Food” can finally be enjoyed at your own home with their online site “Suu Suu Deli.” The company name, Suu Suu Chaiyoo means “Do…

Art collective teamLab is opening a permanent nighttime exhibition, teamLab Botanical Garden Osaka, in Osaka City this summer, 2022. The outdoor exhibition transforms the 240,000-sqm Nagai Botanical Garden, home to 1,200 plant species, into an experiential art space that changes interactively with the behavior of nature and the presence of people. teamLab Botanical Garden Osaka is a botanical…

Japan has one of the strictest and strangest entry bans in place. The government says that “it is not safe to let people from outside in.” The international student community argues that Japanese people can leave the country and come back in from the same country where foreigner students cannot enter. Moreover, 80,000 Olympic athletes,…

SUNTORY TAKES AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO RECYCLING  For a relaxing time… It’s mildly amusing, clicking on to indy filmmaker Sophia Coppola’s Lost In Translation website, to see whisky bottles, with scrollover in a garish neon pink blaring “Buy Suntory.” Adjacent is an aging, jaded Bill Murray whose character is paid to endorse Suntory Whiskey, Humphrey…

According to the data provided from Ministry of education, 313,214 foreign students is living in Japan in 2015 May. It has increased 4.4% from the previous year. It is expected that more foreign students will come to Japan. VIVA VIDA, with the aim to provide safety net to the foreign students, offers newly improved, necessary…

In the first half of 2020, the number of foreign visitors to Japan decreased suddenly due to the spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) infection worldwide, which has seriously impacted the travel industry around the world. What will happen to the Olympic and Paralympic Games that have now been postponed to next year?   Development…

VIVAVIDA! is an affordable and reliable medical and life insurance for foreigners/expats in Japan. With our utmost aim to provide a safety net for foreigners at a minimum cost, we would like to make you feel secured and need not worry of having expensive medical treatment during your stay in Japan. Our customer service and…

In an ecological bid to counter the effects of the concrete jungle, city green space takes to the rooftops. Tokyoites are likely sweating the summer months to come for good reason. The number of hours that the city broils above the 30-degree Celcius mark has more than doubled in recent years. Temperatures will hang —…

Life in a greenhouse offers an ecological escape from the city. Driving east along the highway, the concrete landscape and high-rise buildings of Tokyo gradually give way to green fields and trees. About two hours outside of the city center, a highway exit leads us into the Japanese countryside, full of bamboo forests, rice paddies…