If you spend any time in Tokyo, you are likely to find yourself hunting for something that’s easily found on almost every street corner in a U.S. …
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Olympics 2020: What's Life Like in Tokyo?
From vending machines that sell entire suits to the lack of trashcans around the city, our producers traveled to Tokyo for the Tokyo Olympics and learned about some pretty interesting stuff about the city and culture.
There’s a shrimp filet sandwich, the Ebi Filet-O, only available at Japanese McDonald’s restaurants. Another chain, KFC, has a big presence in the …
Tokyo first hosted the Olympics in 1964, still in the shadow of World World II and the fallout from the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. …
Holding the Olympics during a pandemic means lots of empty seats that were supposed to be filled with cheering fans. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain …
Dispensing everything from fish to suits, Japan’s 5 million vending machines have made the country the convenience capital of the world. But in …
Tokyo is one of the busiest and biggest cities in the world. It’s also one of the cleanest. NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado reports from the 2020 …
The Tokyo Olympic Stadium’s 68,000 seats won’t be filled during the events this year, so its incredible views will only be appreciated by a limited …
The concept has taken off in Japan in recent years, but recently, the pandemic decreased demand for the tiny sleeping pods.
Japan is the 4th-largest exporter of whiskey in the world, and may have gifted an expensive bottle to Mike Pompeo when he served as U.S. Secretary of …
