Caroline Gardin

3 weeks ago | japantoday.com | Caroline Gardin |Adam Plowright

Nintendo fans excited over the upcoming Switch console said Thursday they were disappointed by the high price tag, as U.S. tariffs bite. The Japanese video game giant revealed details about the Switch 2 on Wednesday, announcing an update to the hugely successful 2017 original that has sold over 150 million units.

3 weeks ago | japantimes.co.jp | Caroline Gardin

It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colorful but opaque-windowed sōpurando sex parlors in a historic Tokyo red-light district. Walking through the narrow streets, camera in hand, is Beniko — a former sex worker who is now trying to capture the spirit of the area once known as Yoshiwara through photography. "People often talk about this neighborhood having a 'bad history,'" said Beniko, who goes by her nickname.

1 month ago | taipeitimes.com | Caroline Gardin

By Caroline Gardin / AFP, TOKYO It was late morning and steam was rising from water tanks atop the colorful, but opaque-windowed, “soapland” sex parlors in a historic Tokyo red-light district. Walking through the narrow streets, camera in hand, was Beniko — a former sex worker who is trying to capture the spirit of the area once known as Yoshiwara through photography. “People often talk about this neighborhood having a ‘bad history,’” said Beniko, who goes by her nickname.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Caroline Gardin

It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a historic Tokyo red-light district. Walking through the narrow streets, camera in hand, is Beniko -- a former sex worker who is now trying to capture the spirit of the area once known as Yoshiwara through photography. "People often talk about this neighbourhood having a 'bad history'," Beniko, who goes by her nickname, told AFP.

1 month ago | barrons.com | Atish Patel |Caroline Gardin

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into a wasteland. At least 80,000 people died, according to Japanese and US historians. Five months before the United States dropped atomic weapons on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime raid on March 9-10, 1945 was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs.