Ise Sueyoshi makes sure that people with dietary restrictions don't miss out on kaiseki – the ultimate in Japanese fine dining.
“Big call.” That was what our director, Scott Tompson, said when we first reached Tokyo and I told him I thought that this was far and away the world’s best food city. A first-time visitor to Tokyo, he was skeptical, but I stood by my statement then and I’m now only more convinced of the truth of…
There's a new barista working in a Tokyo cafe - a single armed robot which grinds the coffee beans, fills a filter and pours hot water over a paper cup.
With the postponed 2020 Tokyo Games due to start next Friday, what advances can we celebrate? And what still needs to change?
Twenty-nine stateless athletes are hoping to raise awareness of the more than 80 million forcibly displaced people around the world when they compete as part of the special Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo Games. Here, SBS News meets some of them.
The call comes little more than six months before Tokyo is set to host the virus-delayed Olympic Games.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said the state of emergency will be lifted on Sunday, but "quasi-emergency measures" will remain in place in seven of the nine prefectures until 11 July.
Tokyo is not only Japan's capital city, it is also the country's seafood capital, where sushi and sashimi abound. It's a foodie's paradise, and cookbook author Jane Lawson knows where to find some of the best of Japanese cuisine in this mouth-watering metropolis.
Olympic Games organisers hoped delaying Tokyo 2020 by a year would give Japan – and the world – a chance to get over the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the sporting spectacle will be drastically scaled back, with COVID-19 cases in the Olympic bubble emerging just days before it begins.
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