• Wed. Jul 2nd, 2025

Japan Subculture Research Center

A guide to the Japanese underworld, Japanese pop-culture, yakuza and everything dark under the sun.

Kaori Shoji

Kaori Shoji is a freelance journalist who writes and conducts interviews in both English and Japanese. She makes regular contributions to Nikkei Asia and The Japan Times and writes for publications in the EU, UK, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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What We Wear About When We Think About Clothes: Musings on Japanese Fashion

Back in the late 20th century, the word on the street about Japanese fashion was that it had the lowest f*ckability points in the world. "I wouldn't want to bed…

21 Reasons Why Japanese Men Suck (A Book Review) by Ms. Kaori Shoji

Mr. Morikawa does make a sound observation, albeit not a very helpful one: that 10,000 years ago in the Jomon Period, Japanese couples got married at 14, had their first…