Press
Day by Day Japan is an independent magazine about Japan, this week: where to eat, where to go and what is on, from Hokkaido to Okinawa. Every few hours it collects what the Japanese food and city press published, what the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka found, what the cities announce themselves, and plots what is moving.
Facts
- Published in English; sources read in Japanese, English and French.
- Independent: no publisher, no advertiser, no affiliate links, no bookings, no rankings.
- Every story links to its source; Day by Day Japan quotes headlines and short excerpts only, in the language they were written in.
- The editor writes a route once a week and a short note every few days under a pen name, drafted with AI assistance from the day's material and read before it goes out.
- Sources: Japanese food magazines (dancyu, Hanako, BRUTUS), Tokyo's English press, regional guides, the cities' own tourism desks, and the channels that eat and walk Japan on camera.
Editor
Sora Nakamura. Sora Nakamura was born in Kanazawa, grew up between a fish market and a grandmother's kitchen, and spent her twenties cooking in Tokyo, Lyon and Melbourne before she put down the knife to write. Back in Tokyo since 2019, she keeps a spreadsheet of every place she has eaten at since 2011 and a bicycle she rides to most of them. She writes routes, not rankings, and believes the best restaurant in any town is the one that has been open long enough to have a regular who died there.
Routes and notes are published under the editor's pen name and are drafted with AI assistance from the day's material.
Quoting us
Quote freely with a link. Screenshots of the pulse tiles and catalogue pages may be reproduced with attribution to Day by Day Japan.
