Terms: |Japan| |Olympics| |Summer Olympic Games| |Tokyo|
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
The 2020 Summer Olympics marked the second time that Tokyo hosted the Games. In what year had the Japanese capital hosted them for the first time?
1964
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Even though it had long been the real center of power since the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokyo only became the official capital in 1868, when the imperial court moved there and the city received its present name. What was it called before that?
Edo
Terms: |James Bond| |Japan| |Sean Connery| |Tokyo|
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Tokyo also found its way into Western pop culture, and already in 1967 one of the Bond films was set partly there. With Sean Connery as Bond, and with the Japanese spy Tiger Tanaka and his ninja units appearing in the story, which film is it?
You Only Live Twice
Terms: |Civil Aviation| |Japan| |Tokyo|
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
The vast Tokyo metropolitan area is served by two major airports, one of them being Haneda. What is the name of the other airport, which for many years handled most international flights to Tokyo before Haneda expanded in 2010?
Narita International Airport
Terms: |Japan| |Nightlife| |Tokyo|
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Which district of Tokyo is known as the main hub of the city’s youth subcultures, as a fashion center for young Japanese people, and as one of the capitals of Tokyo nightlife?
Shibuya
Terms: |Gastronomy| |Japan| |Portugal|
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
This Japanese dish is most often made from seafood or vegetables coated in batter and deep-fried. It developed under the influence of cooking methods brought to Nagasaki by the Portuguese in the 16th century. What is it called?
Tempura
Terms: |Akio Morita| |Japan| |Masaru Ibuka| |Technology| |Tokyo|
Published: 9. 4. 2026.
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded a company in Tokyo in 1946 under the name Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. By what famous name is that company known today?
Sony
Terms: |Japan|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Which Japanese filmmaker, later celebrated for directing Violent Cop and Fireworks, had earlier appeared as Sergeant Gengo Hara in Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence?
Takeshi Kitano
Terms: |Japan|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Which leading figure of the Japanese New Wave directed the 1964 noir Pale Flower, a work often associated with the spirit of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, and later became the first filmmaker to adapt Shusaku Endo’s Silence for the screen?
Masahiro Shinoda